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Treasury minutes: Government response to the Committee of Public Accounts on the Seventy-sixth report from Session 2022-23

Published 14 February 2024

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The government's response

This document responds to Seventy-Sixth Report - The Asylum Transformation Programme.

This is the government's response, published 14 February 2024.

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

The government agrees with the Committee's recommendations on the asylum backlog, the streamlined process and local authority engagement, and disagrees with those on hotels, safeguarding and publishing the Programme Business Case.

  • On the backlog, the government agrees with the recommendation, describes it as implemented and says the legacy backlog target has been met; it says flow claims "will be prioritised from 2024 onwards".
  • On hotels, it disagrees with the recommendation to set out how and by when it will stop using them, but says it has "plans in place to close over 50 hotels before the end of January 2024" and will keep modelling assumptions "under regular review".
  • On local authorities, it agrees, with a target implementation date of "iterative to December 2025", and says pilots with London, Wales and South West England will run between January and March 2024.
  • It disagrees with publishing the Programme Business Case, stating that "it is not standard practice" to do so, and offers a private meeting with the Committee once HM Treasury approves it, which it anticipates by "the Summer of 2024".

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