Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many penalty deductions, service credits and contractual remedies have been applied to suppliers under the Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract series since 1 March 2019 by supplier and year.

The Department has recovered £74 million in the current financial year through profit-share repayments and service credits – the largest restitution since the contracts were mobilised.

The information requested on how many penalty deductions, service credits and contractual remedies have been applied to suppliers under the Asylum Accommodation & Support Services Contract (AASC) series since 1 March 2019, broken down by supplier and by year, is considered commercially sensitive.

Regular disclosure of such detailed contractual performance data would prejudice the commercial interests of both the Home Office and its suppliers. For this reason, the Department does not routinely publicly release this information.