Asylum: Housing
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what each of the clusters of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme are responsible for implementing.
Answered by Alex Norris
Ahead of the roll out of FACT in 2029 when the current AASC contracts end, it was determined that a faster short term measure needed to be introduced to find more non hotel based asylum accommodation, in answer to this need BASP was developed to bridge the current gap in Dispersal Accommodation, support hotel exit and prevent hotel re-entry.
The Asylum Support Payment (ASP) project is aiming to enhance the service for users (c. 79,000) by retendering the service using our framework suppliers. The current contract is delivered by Prepaid Financial Services Limited (PFS) and expires in May 2027.
For FACT we are reprocuring the Accommodation Provision, Accommodation Management including security and sustenance, Transport, Service User Assistance including safeguarding and wellbeing and External Assurance to replace the existing AASC contracts.
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