The asylum statistics you will never see in the Oldham Chronicle or on the Oldham Council website. In the third quarter of 2016 337 (89.2%) of 378 UK local authorites housed between 0 and 10 asylum seeker’s of which 236 (62.4%) local authorities housed no asylum seeker’s at all. 29 UK local authorities housed 500 or more asylum seekers of which 8 (27.6%) are in Greater Manchester. These 8 GM areas housed 17% of all asylum seekers in the UK, 70.5% of all asylum seeker’s in the North West, in the third quarter of 2016: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Tameside & Wigan.
Note: Oldham, the most deprived town in England, can pull out of the asylum system altogether at anytime the council chooses.
