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Westmorland and Furness

Updated 30 Jun 2026 · Home Office
Michelle Scrogham
Michelle ScroghamLabour · Barrow and Furness

2 MPs cover constituencies in or overlapping Westmorland and Furness.

240 people on asylum support in Westmorland and Furness

Rank 118 of 361 councils nationally. The rate of 10.38 per 10,000 puts Westmorland and Furness in the 62nd percentile. That means a moderate load compared to the national picture. 2 of them receive subsistence only and are not in Home Office accommodation. Accommodation and support for 240 people at £107 per person per day is about £9.4M a year.

What asylum costs Westmorland and Furness

£5.4Mestimated hotel costs/year
£614Ksubsistence payments/year
£288KLA dispersal grant/year

Estimates based on 240 people on asylum support in Westmorland and Furness(0.26% 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.

Westmorland and Furness: asylum numbers falling

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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234156780Jun 2023Dec 2025Peak Sept 2025Bibby StockholmRwanda scrapped
Exact values
PeriodValue
Jun 2023122
Sept 2023128
Dec 202395
Mar 2024104
Jun 2024159
Sept 2024179
Dec 2024208
Mar 2025214
Jun 2025229
Sept 2025234
Dec 2025233

Trend

-1Latest quarter change
+111Change across series
11Official data points

Local numbers

Accommodation split

Dispersal accommodation238
Initial accommodation0
Subsistence only2
Contingency accommodation0

Pathway breakdown

Supported asylum
240
Homes for Ukraine
612
Afghan programme
112
Resettlement cumulative
13

Other routes

Homes for Ukraine612
Afghan programme112
Resettlement cumulative13

Population context

All pathways total964
Share of local population0.42%

Ethnic composition projection

Westmorland and Furness: White British 94.6% (2021) to 77.6% (2051).

Ethnic composition: Westmorland and Furness

0255075100% of populationCensus 2021White British 78% in 2051White Other 8% in 2051Asian 7% in 20512021203120412051
White BritishWhite OtherAsian

Each line shows one ethnic group's share of the local population. The shaded band is the 80% confidence range. Values after 2051 are illustrative only.

Ethnic composition: Westmorland and Furness

Census 2011, Census 2021, then Hamilton-Perry projections to 2051. Percentages.

2021
95%
2021
95%
2026proj
92%
2031proj
90%
2036proj
87%
2041proj
84%
2046proj
81%
2051proj
78%
White BritishWhite OtherAsianBlackMixedOther
Model: Hamilton-Perry single-year CCRs, 1,000 Monte Carlo simulations, SNPP-constrained

Census 2011 to 2021 cohort change ratios. Shaded band = 80% confidence interval from stochastic perturbation. Not a forecast.

Scenario explorer

Under different assumptions, White British share in Westmorland and Furness ranges from67.0% to 84.1%by 2051. That is a 17pp spread.

Fertility
Low~108k/yr
Principal~315k/yr
High~476k/yr
ConstantRates stay at current levels
Half convergenceMove halfway to national avg
Full convergenceConverge to national avg
Migration
Central scenario: WBI 73.6% by 2051
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