FOI/19/02173 · FOI · released
Refugees and children in homelessness: FOI release
Information requested
You asked for:
“In the years 2018-2019, how many refugees were allowed into / settled in Scotland, and for the same time period, how many children were classed as being homeless, and if possible, what were the nationalities and / or ethnicities of those children (however, the number of children alone is acceptable).”
Response
Asylum and immigration are matters reserved to the UK Government and handled by the Home Office. This includes refugee resettlement. The UK Government regularly publishes asylum and immigration statistics, and data on refugee resettlement is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-statistics-quarterly-release.
Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website(s) listed, you may wish to contact the Home Office at MigrationStatsEnquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk requesting this information in a different format.
I enclose a copy of the information you requested related to children and homelessness at Annex A.
Annex A
Data about homeless applications in Scotland is captured through the HL1 homelessness data collection. This collection captures information about the ethnicity of the main applicant in an applicant household (as well as for their partner, if applicable). It does not however capture this information for children in the household directly. The data collection does not gather data about nationality.
The following table gives the number of children in households assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness in 2018/19, broken down by the ethnic group of the main applicant.
Note that there may be occasions where the ethnicity of any children in the applicant household is not the same as that of the main applicant. This might occur for example when the household has formed from a relationship in which the partner of the main applicant has children from a previous relationship.
Ethnic group of the main homeless applicant All children in households assessed as homeless or threatened with homelessness White: Scottish 11320 White: Other British 945 White: Irish 65 White: Other 450 Black: African 205 Black: Caribbean 10 Black: Other 25 Asian: Indian 50 Asian: Pakistani 205 Asian: Bangladeshi 55 Asian: Chinese 30 Asian: Other 65 Mixed 60 Other 1015 Not Known 490 Refused 85 Gypsy/Traveller 45 Polish 275 Other African 35 Black, Black Scottish or Black British 65 Arab, Arab Scottish or Arab British 165 All 15660
For disclosure purposes, figures in the table are rounded to the nearest 5, apart from 1,2 and 3, which are rounded to '<4'.
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Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you.
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