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1. For each of the last three financial years (2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 to date), what was the total number of immigrants, asylum seekers, or refugees who were deemed eligible for and received housing or social care support from Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council?

2. Please provide a detailed breakdown of the total direct expenditure by the Council on temporary accommodation (including but not limited to Bed and Breakfasts, hostels, and private rentals) for immigrant families and individuals for each of the last three financial years.

3. What was the total cost incurred by the Council for the provision of council tax and utility bills (gas, electricity, water) for properties occupied solely by immigrant households in each of the last three financial years?

4 How many immigrant households are currently being housed in properties owned by the Council or a registered social landlord within the Merthyr Tydfil county borough? Of these, how many are residing in new-build properties constructed within the last five years?

5. . Please specify the total amount of "Discretionary Housing Payments" (DHP) awarded by the Council specifically to immigrant households to assist with rent shortfalls or housing costs in each of the last three financial years.

6 What is the total annual expenditure by the Council on furniture packs, white goods, and essential household items (such as beds, sofas, refrigerators, and washing machines) provided to immigrant families moving into unfurnished accommodation? Please provide figures for the last three financial years.

7. Please provide a breakdown of costs associated with specialist interpretation and translation services utilized by the Council's housing and social services departments when supporting non-English speaking immigrants for the last three financial years.

8.What specific additional funding has the Council received from the UK Government (e.g., via the Asylum Dispersal Grant or the Afghan and Ukrainian resettlement schemes) to cover the costs of supporting immigrants in each of the last three financial years? Please provide the grant name and the amount received each year.

9. What was the total cost of providing Council-run television licenses or subscription services (such as those provided in some temporary accommodation or asylum seeker hotels) for immigrant residents in each of the last three financial years?

10. Please provide a breakdown of all costs related to the "Waste Removal" and "Cleaning" of properties and encampments specifically associated with new immigrant or asylum-seeking populations, if such costs are separately tracked by the department, for the last three financial years .

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1. For each of the last three financial years (2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 to date), what was the total number of immigrants, asylum seekers, or refugees who were deemed eligible for and received housing or social care support from Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

2023-24 5 households deemed eligible and received support

2024-25 5 Households deemed eligible and received support

2025-26 2 Households deemed eligible

2. Please provide a detailed breakdown of the total direct expenditure by the Council on temporary accommodation (including but not limited to Bed and Breakfasts, hostels, and private rentals) for immigrant families and individuals for each of the last three financial years. Data not recorded

3. What was the total cost incurred by the Council for the provision of council tax and utility bills (gas, electricity, water) for properties occupied solely by immigrant households in each of the last three financial years?

Utility bills are included in accommodation costs.

4 How many immigrant households are currently being housed in properties owned by the Council or a registered social landlord within the Merthyr Tydfil County borough? Of these, how many are residing in new-build properties constructed within the last five years? Council does not own any stock.

RSL- 2

New building- 1

5. . Please specify the total amount of "Discretionary Housing Payments" (DHP) awarded by the Council specifically to immigrant households to assist with rent shortfalls or housing costs in each of the last three financial years. We don’t record the ethnicity of anyone awarded a DHP. The criterion for an award is to be in receipt of Housing Benefit or the Housing Element of Universal Credit and providing this is met we can consider an award.

6 What is the total annual expenditure by the Council on furniture packs, white goods, and essential household items (such as beds, sofas, refrigerators, and washing machines) provided to immigrant families moving into unfurnished accommodation? Please provide figures for the last three financial years. Children’s Service?

Homes for Ukraine tariff used to provide furniture packs

7. Please provide a breakdown of costs associated with specialist interpretation and translation services utilized by the Council's housing and social services departments when supporting non-English speaking immigrants for the last three financial years.

Here are the figures, We can only report on total paid as we don’t keep records of the type of service i.e. translation, interpretation:

2022/2023 £5,359.58

2023/2024 £7,885.92

2024/2025 £8,863.74

8.What specific additional funding has the Council received from the UK Government (e.g., via the Asylum Dispersal Grant or the Afghan and Ukrainian resettlement schemes) to cover the costs of supporting immigrants in each of the last three financial years? Please provide the grant name and the amount received each year

2023/24 2024/25 2025/26

Asylum Dispersal Funding -8,500.00 -46,250.00 -21,900.00

Afghan Resettlement Programme -18,000.00 -13,410.00

Afghan Citizen Relocation Scheme -19,800.00 -13,410.00

Ukrainian Refugee Programme - Sponsor Payments -61,500.00 -49,000.00 -24,800.00

Ukrainian Refugee Programme -165,601.96 -111,868.00 -21,057.00

9. What was the total cost of providing Council-run television licenses or subscription services (such as those provided in some temporary accommodation or asylum seeker hotels) for immigrant residents in each of the last three financial years? Nil

10. Please provide a breakdown of all costs related to the "Waste Removal" and "Cleaning" of properties and encampments specifically associated with new immigrant or asylum-seeking populations, if such costs are separately tracked by the department, for the last three financial years . Nil