From BBC Scotland today:

Home Secretary James Cleverly has urged the Scottish government to use a cruise ship and other large sites to accommodate more asylum seekers.

Mr Cleverly said that for dispersal and initial accommodation alone, Scotland houses eight asylum seekers for every 10,000 people.

This compares to nine in Wales and 16 in England.

This morning, at least 12 hours earlier, on BBC Radio Good Mourning Scotland, we hear from Peter William Walsh of the Migration Observatory at Oxford University:

The Home Secretary criticises the Scottish Government for not taking enough asylum seekers. So asylum seekers are those who reached the UK under their own steam, sometimes arriving without authorisation such as by small boat and then they claim asylum of British shores. So, this excludes Afghans. It excludes Ukrainians. If we limit our analysis just to asylum seekers, it is true that Scotland hosts about half the number per capita that England does. However, we also know that Scotland hosts a lot of Ukrainians. 26 000 compared with 100 000 in England has 10 times the population so, per capita, Scotland host 2 and a half times more Ukrainians per capita than England. so, if we look overall at all the categories of displaced people that are hosted, that’s Ukrainians, Afghans and asylum seekers, what we find is quite interesting – England host 4 people per 1 000 of its resident population and Scotland 6! So, per capita, overall, Scotland host 50% more than England!

Laura Maxwell’s response, through clenched teeth – inntteresttingg.