Legislation which ensures all 342 Dutch local councils take their fair share of refugees will not be withdrawn before the summer, prime minister Dick Schoof confirmed on Friday.

Immigration minister Marjolein Faber is due to publish her plans to scrap the legislation on Monday. She has made cancelling the law a key part of her policy to introduce “the toughest asylum legislation ever”.

Schoof told reporters that Faber will first assess the current state of refugee accommodation and what the impact of withdrawing the law will be. If local authorities are no long required by law to house a certain number of refugees, the supply of beds is likely to go down.

The cabinet is committed to ensuring the number of refugees coming to the Netherlands goes down as well, he said.

“We are trying to get a grip on the influx,” he said. “And fewer people are coming. And people now living in refugee centres have to leave them – either because they can stay in the Netherlands or have to go back to their country of origin.”

Faber herself declined to answer reporters’ questions about the plan.

Local authorities and kings commissioners as well as the refugee settlement agency COA have all urged the government not to scrap the law.