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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Diane Taylor

Over £300m given to English councils to help house Ukrainian refugees unspent

A silhouette of woman standing in front of a window
Karyn, a Ukrainian refugee came to the UK with her husband and three-year-old son in 2022 but ended up homeless before finding accommodation. Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

More than £300m given to English councils to help Ukrainian refugees into accommodation has not been spent, while thousands of them face homelessness.

Freedom of information requests to 150 councils in England, shared with the Guardian, identified that £327m – about a third of the £1bn budget – was still sitting in council bank accounts more than three years after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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