Question follow-through · 35882

Asylum: Contracts

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts awarded to outside companies for the provision of services related to (a) refugees and (b) asylum have gone over budget in the last ten years.

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 5 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 7 Mar 2025
Answer: 13 Mar 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many contracts awarded to outside companies for the provision of services related to (a) refugees and (b) asylum have gone over budget in the last ten years.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Mar 2025
Answer published
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...

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