Asylum costs by town

Annualised priced subtotal, paid by the Home Office. This uses 365 nights and 52 weekly payments at a constant count; it is not expenditure recorded for this area.

Contingency accommodation is priced at the published hotel rate as a scenario. The source category includes hotels and may include other temporary accommodation.

The UK figure divides everyone on support by the sum of HMRC's local income taxpayer counts, two of which are unpublished. It is a relative comparison, not a target for how many people an area should support.

Accommodated cash allowances are excluded pending verification of what the nightly rates include. Meal coverage is unknown. The standard and catered allowances differ.

Actual grant payments are unavailable. The annual grant uses the March baseline, excludes Large Sites CA and covers England, Scotland and Wales. Monthly growth payments and local eligibility cannot be calculated from this snapshot.

Hotel-rate share is the share of the priced subtotal from contingency accommodation. It is not the share of people confirmed to be in hotels. Where the subtotal is zero, the share is unavailable.

Initial and other accommodation have no current comparable rate. A row marked "All people priced" prices every person in the listed categories, but still excludes grants and any separate accommodated cash allowance. Every full expenditure total remains unavailable.