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Asylum: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants in her Department are working on recouping profits from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body
Home Office
Tabled
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
29 Oct 2025
Answer
13 Nov 2025 · 17 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Oct 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many full time equivalent civil servants in her Department are working on recouping profits from private providers with contracts to house asylum seekers.

  2. 29 Oct 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 13 Nov 2025

    Answer published

    Excess profits of £45.9m have been returned to the Department in relation to the contract’s profit share provisions.The Home Office is supported by a Commercial Department within which is a dedicated Asylum Support Commercial Contract Management Team. Thi...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Undocumented Migrants: Arrests

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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