12th Report - Asylum accommodation
- HC No.
- HC 637
- Published
- 31 Jan 2017
- Items
- 0
- Government response
- Government response published 10 November 2017. Read the government's response ↗
Select committee: Home Affairs Committee
Asylum accommodation
Closed
Opened 20 Jan 2016
Closed 10 Nov 2017
Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗
Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
Government Response Government Response: Asylum accommodation Government Response: Asylum accommodation (PDF 199 KB) The Home Affairs Committee says the current contract system for asylum accommodation isn't working and major reforms are needed. The Committee brands the state of some asylum accommodation provided by Government contractors a "disgrace" and says it is "shameful" that very vulnerable people have been placed in these conditions. Please also see oral and written evidence received in Immigration Directorates inquiry , 9 February 2016. A report 'The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q3 2015)' was published on 4 March 2016.
Where it stands
The inquiry is closed, opened 20 January 2016.
The committee has published 1 report, most recently 12th Report - Asylum accommodation on 31 January 2017.
The government's response
Published 10 November 2017.
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The Home Office highlights improvements already made to the asylum accommodation contracts, agrees with parts of the Committee's report, and disagrees with several of its recommendations.
- On accommodation standards, it states "The Government does not agree with this conclusion", while welcoming the report's acknowledgement that standards have improved since the start of the COMPASS contract.
- It does not agree that property inspection should be handed to local authorities, saying this "would reduce the accountability of the Home Office and the ability to hold Providers to account".
- It does not accept that support for refugees who were granted asylum should be the same as for refugees resettled under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme, and says it will respond to the Casey Review "in due course".
- On commitments, it will "review the role played by Strategic Migration Partnerships and their funding for the 2018/19 financial year and beyond", and will consider the standards and performance regimes for the contracts operating from 2019 as part of designing them.
Reports
- 12th Report - Asylum accommodation31 January 2017
Evidence
- 2 oral evidence sessionsLatest 13 September 2016
Recent activity
- 2nd Special Report - Asylum accommodation: Government Response to the Committee’s Twelfth Report of Session 2016–1710 November 2017, Report published
- 12th Report - Asylum accommodation31 January 2017, Report published
- Oral evidence session13 September 2016, Oral evidence
Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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