For in this town north of Manchester, every 200th person is an asylum seeker. In asylum Britain, there is a rule: no town should have more than one asylum seeker for every 200 people. It’s skewed towards towns like Rochdale.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shoppers in Rochdale, the town with the greatest per capita proportion of asylum seekers in England. Some communities take more than 1,000 asylum seekers, whereas 174 local authorities – or 45% of all council areas – do not house any. The cost of housing asylum seekers and their £36.95 weekly allowance is met by the Home Office, and asylum seekers are not accommodated in council housing.

Source: The Guardian April 09, 2017 21:00 UTC