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East Renfrewshire

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Blair McDougall
Blair McDougallLabour · East Renfrewshire

4 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping East Renfrewshire.

9 people on asylum support in East Renfrewshire

Rank 303 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 0.9 per 10,000 puts East Renfrewshire in the 17th percentile. That means fewer than most areas. 5 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 9 people at £107 per person per day is about £0.4M a year.

What asylum costs East Renfrewshire

£203Kestimated hotel costs/year
£23Ksubsistence payments/year
£11KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 9 people on asylum support in East Renfrewshire(0.01% of 93,293 nationally at 30 Jun 2026). Hotel costs pro-rated from £5.77M/day national spend in 2024/25 (House of Commons Library, CDP-2025-0184). Subsistence: £49.18/week per person.

East Renfrewshire: asylum numbers holding steady

Quarter-end stock series to Dec 2025. A rise or fall is a net change in the number of people on support at period end, not the number of new claims or distinct people moving through the caseload. Support stock also overlaps with, but is not identical to, the awaiting-decision backlog.

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4310Sept 2020Dec 2025Peak Mar 2025
Exact values
PeriodValue
Sept 20201
Dec 20201
Mar 20211
Jun 20211
Sept 20211
Mar 20254
Jun 20253
Sept 20253
Dec 20253

Trend

+0Latest quarter change
+2Change across series
9Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation4
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only5
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
9
Homes for Ukraine
97
Afghan programme
12
Resettlement cumulative
47

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine97
Afghan programme12
Resettlement cumulative47

Population context

All pathways total118
Share of local population0.12%
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