Dispersal accommodation: provided to asylum seekers whose claim for Asylum Support has been agreed, for as long as they remain eligible. Local-authority breakdown available from 2014-Q1. Dispersal has a local-authority breakdown throughout the published series. Not comparable before 2023-Q1: All Section 4 recipients prior to 31 March 2023 are shown in the tables as within 'Dispersal accommodation'. However, since March 2020, where dispersal accommodation was not available some individuals in receipt of Section 4 support have been housed in contingency hotels to prevent destitution.
The metrics below move with Asylum support: Dispersal accommodation across UK places. A positive correlation means the two tend to rise together; a negative one means as this rises, the other tends to fall.
Data: precomputed cross-metric correlations (latest period).