Asylum: East Sussex

Mr. Waterson
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many asylum seekers are living in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex.

Mr. Byrne
Statistics on the location of asylum seekers in the UK are linked to the available information on the support that the asylum seeker receives.

The following table shows the number of asylum seekers recorded as receiving asylum support in Eastbourne and the local authorities within East Sussex as at the end of March 2007. This figure excludes those asylum seekers who are living in these local authorities but are not receiving support.

The numbers of asylum seekers in receipt of support, broken down by Government office region and local authority, are published on a quarterly and annual basis. Copies of these publications are available from the Library of the House and from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics website at:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1.html.

Further breakdowns of those in receipt of support, by parliamentary constituency, are also available from the Library of the House.

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|Local authority                               |In dispersed accommodation|In receipt of subsistence only support|Total in receipt of support|
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|Brighton and Hove                             |15                        |40                                    |55                         |
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|Eastbourne                                    |—                         |20                                    |20                         |
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|Hastings                                      |60                        |—                                     |60                         |
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|Lewes                                         |—                         |—                                     |—                          |
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|Rother                                        |—                         |—                                     |—                          |
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|Wealden                                       |—                         |—                                     |—                          |
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|Total                                         |75                        |60                                    |135                        |
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|Note:All figures are rounded to the nearest 5.|                          |                                      |                           |
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