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Home Office

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Mr. Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list the places designated as clusters for the dispersal of asylum seekers, indicating the (a) population and (b) ethnic minority population of each. [160847] Mrs. Roche: The areas designated as clusters are listed together with population figures. Research to identify the presence of ethnic minorities included advice received from consultation with regional consortium, voluntary groups and other interested parties plus evidence from the 1991 census. Actual statistics detailing the present ethnic minority population for each cluster area are not available. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Region/cluster area Population estimate per cluster East Midlands Leicester 294,300 Derby 235,800 Nottingham 286,800 South Central and East Brighton and Hove 255,800 Hastings and St Leonards 81,400 Portsmouth 189,900 North East Darlington 101,400 Gateshead 198,900 Middlesbrough 145,100 Newcastle 276,100 North Tyneside 194,000 South Tyneside 154,600 Redcar and Cleveland 138,300 Hartlepool 91,900 Stockton on Tees 181,000 Sunderland 292,300 North West Manchester (Great Manchester) 429,800 Bolton (Great Manchester) 267,500 Bury (Great Manchester) 182,800 Oldham (Great Manchester) 219,200 Rochdale (Great Manchester) 208,200 Salford (Great Manchester) 225,900 Stockport (Great Manchester) 292,800 Tameside (Great Manchester) 220,400 Trafford (Great Manchester) 220,300 Wigan (Great Manchester) 310,500 Burnley 91,000 Blackburn 140,000 Liverpool 461,500 Nelson 29,120 Scotland Glasgow 619,680 Edinburgh 450,180 South West Bristol 402,300 Gloucester 107,400 Swindon 179,700 Taunton and Bridgewater {1}99,700 Exeter 111,000 South Gloucestershire 241,000 Torbay 123,000 North Somerset 188,700 Bath 167,300 Plymouth 253,000 East of England Ipswich 113,900 Norwich 124,000 Cambridge 120,600 Great Yarmouth 89,300 Peterborough 156,000 Wales Wrexham 125,200 Cardiff 320,900 Newport 139,200 Swansea 229,500 Bridgend and Porthcawl 131,400 West Midlands Birmingham 1,013,400 Coventry 304,300 Dudley 311,500 Sandwell 290,500 Solihull 205,600 Stoke on Trent 251,500 Walsall 261,200 Wolverhampton 241,600 Yorkshire and Humberside Bradford/Keighley 483,300 Doncaster 290,500 Halifax 91,069 Hull 261,800 Kirklees 390,900 Leeds 727,400 Rotherham 254,400 Sheffield 531,100 Barnsley 228,100 Grimsby 90,703 Wakefield 318,800 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Shown as Taunton Deane

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

160847; 368 c329-30W

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Asylum Housing Ethnic groups Refugees

Contains statistics

Yes

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