Trend
+35 Latest quarter change
+128 Change across series
31 Official data points
North Lanarkshire
Kirsty Blackman
81 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping North Lanarkshire.
215 people housed on asylum support in North Lanarkshire
Rank 134 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 6.24 per 10,000 puts North Lanarkshire in the 48th percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. At roughly £150/person/day, that costs the taxpayer an estimated £12M per year for this area alone.
What asylum costs North Lanarkshire
£4.2Mestimated hotel costs/year
£550Ksubsistence payments/year
£258KLA dispersal grant/year
Estimates based on 215 people on asylum support in North Lanarkshire (0.20% of 107,003 nationally). Hotel costs pro-rated from £5.77M/day national spend (2024/25 average, NAO). Subsistence: £49.18/week per person. Nationally, the hotel bill alone costs £62 per taxpayer per year.
North Lanarkshire: asylum numbers still rising
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.
Local numbers
Accommodation split
Dispersal accommodation 199
Initial accommodation 3
Subsistence only 13
Contingency accommodation 0
Pathway breakdown
Other routes
Homes for Ukraine 232
Afghan programme 50
Resettlement cumulative 31
Population context
All pathways total 497
Share of local population 0.14%
Full demographic profile
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National benchmarks
Supported asylum count
215 National distribution.
Supported asylum rate
6.24 Per 10,000 residents.
Contingency accommodation
0 Hotel and contingency placements.
Regional peers
Top 5 in Scotland by supported asylum.