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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Thirty-fourth report from Session 2023-24

Published 11 July 2025

Public Accounts Committee Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership Report on parliament.uk ↗

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The government's response

This document responds to Thirty-Fourth Report - Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership.

This is the government's response, published 11 July 2025.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The government states that it agrees with most of the Committee's recommendations, says it will end the Rwanda partnership with "no removals to Rwanda under the MEDP", and only notes two recommendations that it describes as no longer relevant or not proceeding.

  • On the Rwanda partnership, the government notes the recommendations on quarterly updates and on an evaluation strategy, saying the first is "no longer relevant" and that evaluation of deterrent impact and value for money "will not proceed".
  • On large accommodation sites, the government agrees and lists measures including restructuring the programme to deliver smaller sites and earlier due diligence; it says an Infrastructure and Projects Authority review found successful delivery "appears feasible".
  • The government agrees to write to the Committee quarterly on service credits applied for accommodation safety KPIs, with a target implementation date of October 2024.
  • On Accounting Officer Assessments, the government agrees but gives no date, saying dates are "dependent on project development". It will not yet publish one for the large sites programme, and will write to the new Committee "in due course" on third country negotiations.

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