12th Report - Asylum accommodation

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.

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