TWO more North Yorkshire councils are due to consider requests to start rehoming asylum seekers.

Both Selby and Scarborough district councillors are due answer a request from from the Home Office that the areas join the national Asylum Dispersal Scheme.

Officials have asked that North Yorkshire councils agree to take 50 asylum seekers, with no more than 20 in any one authority’s area.

But earlier this month senior councillors in Hambleton decided they could not answer the request without more information on a litany of concerns – including over radicalisation.

While all local authorities in South and West Yorkshire and many in the North-East have acted as dispersal areas for years – working with G4S to find suitable accommodation – none in North Yorkshire have done so.

An officers’ report for Hambleton council, the first authority in the county to consider the Government request, said indirect costs like staff time could be around £4,000 for each asylum seeker.

Now council papers reveal that Scarborough Borough councillors are due to decide, after the Conservative-led cabinet decided to leave it for a full meeting at all 50 councillors. At the same time, a Selby council spokesman confirmed its response would be considered by it executive at a meeting in August.