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Asylum: Contracts

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 13 March 2025UIN 35893

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department conducted any audits into services provided by contractors to refugees and asylum seekers in the last five years.

Answered by Dame Angela Eagle

The Home Office applies robust controls to the management of expenditure and performance in relation to all departmental contracts, including publishing on a quarterly basis the rating of the most important contracts against key performance indicators.

The specific information requested regarding a particular category of contracts is not centrally held, and could only be collected and verified for the purpose of answering this question at disproportionate cost.

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