Question follow-through · 104353

Migrant Help

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any contracts her Department holds with Migrant Help include 24-hour service provisions.

answeredHome Office

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 8 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 12 Jan 2026
Answer: 19 Jan 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

8 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any contracts her Department holds with Migrant Help include 24-hour service provisions.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Home Office holds one contract with Migrant Help for the provision of asylum services. The overall value for the 10-year contract (2019-2029) is £235,000,000. Information on this contract is publicly available: AIRE - Advice Issue Reporting and Elligi...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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