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EXCLUSIVE: Councils stripped of asylum data access

Councils have been stripped of access to information about asylum seeker accommodation after the Home Office cracked down on sharing data due to a leak, The MJ understands.

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Councils have been stripped of access to information about asylum seeker accommodation after the Home Office cracked down on sharing data due to a leak, The MJ understands.

The department said it had ‘paused' sharing its regional asylum dispersal pack data with local government-led strategic migration partnerships after ‘leaks'.

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