Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has included provisions in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract for when demand exceeds the supply that has been budgeted for; and what steps her Department took to negotiate and agree the new funding and performance indicators relating to that contract.

The Home Office has provisions in the Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract for when demand exceeds the supply that has been budgeted for. This is in the form of a Contract Change Note (CCN) where the authority may require, and the provider may request, a change within the contract.