FOI Request - Refugee Resettlement Funding

Request 101003820432

1.  The amount received by your local authority from the Home Office as part of refugee resettlement schemes for the years 2018 - 2024.

2.  The number of individuals within your local authority for whom you receive funding as part of the Home Office refugee resettlement scheme for the years 2018 - 2024.

3.  For the year 2024, a full breakdown of expenditure by each of the Home Office listed outcomes - as per the Home Office guidance document released last week - including the contractor providing the service.

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686f9a65a08d3a3ca3b679e3/447+UKRS+LA+Funding+Instruction+25-26+Final+4.7.25_.pdf

These ‘outcomes’ include:
a) Provision of accommodation - how much spent, which contractors?
b) Accommodation furnishings - how much spent, on what, which suppliers?
c) Casework support - how much spent, which providers?
d) English language provision for adults - how much spent, which providers?
e) Integration - what activities are included within this, how much spent, which providers?
f) Job seeking and welfare support - how much spent?

4.  Please also indicate, the total value of year 2 - 5 funding claimed by your authority for refugees in your area, and how many refugees this covered.

Response 05-08-2025

1. £3,220,778

2. 275 Individuals

3. a) £26,000 Council Contractors

b) £3,500 - Supplier information is considered commercially sensitive information and exempt under Section 33(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002- Commercial Sensitivity where disclosure would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of any person.

c) £1850 - Provider information is considered commercially sensitive information and exempt under Section 33(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002- Commercial Sensitivity where disclosure would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of any person.

d) £32,000 Council Posts

e) £11,500 - Provider information is considered commercially sensitive information and exempt under Section 33(1)(b) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002- Commercial Sensitivity where disclosure would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of any person.

f) £8,000

4. £3,127,370  for 245 refugees