Information on section 4 support is published annually and quarterly in the Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom bulletin which is available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate website at:
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration-asylum-stats.html
We do not publish quarterly statistics by region, but we do hold the data for internal management use. The internal management data do not undergo the same quality assurance processes as published statistics. The following data are provisional and subject to change. Consequently the regional data when totalled are slightly different to the equivalent available published data. It should also be noted that the data relate to numbers that were in receipt of support as at the dates shown and not the total number that received support.
UK Border Agency region 2 July 2007 1 October 2007 31 December 2007 31 March 2008 30 June 2008 6 October 2008 29 December 2008 5 April 2009 29 June 2009 28 September 2009 London and South East 1,546 1,453 1,249 844 527 498 467 446 418 358 Midlands and East 2,791 2,682 2,462 2,602 2,855 3,115 3,351 3,657 3,886 4,100 North East, Yorkshire and the Humber 2,673 2,743 2,888 3,092 3,339 3,443 3,435 3,593 3,749 3,912 North West 1,382 1,508 1,467 1,643 1,699 1,782 1,599 1,667 1,742 1,908 Scotland and Northern Ireland 372 412 435 486 520 604 599 704 830 898 Wales and South West 735 825 809 755 769 818 808 822 863 927
The data from April 2007 to July 2007 were previously recorded on a different system and subsequently migrated over. We are therefore not satisfied that these figures are sufficiently robust for release and have been omitted.