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EXCLUSIVE: Home Office trying to restore sharing of asylum data

Senior Home Office officials have told councils they are trying to restore their access to information about asylum seeker accommodation after they started withholding data.

The Home Office's headquarters in Marsham Street, London

Senior Home Office officials have told councils they are trying to restore their access to information about asylum seeker accommodation after they started withholding data.

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

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