Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the answer of 11 September 2026 to question 23291 on Home Office: Housing, for what reason the 2025 review concluded that the original aims of Bridging Accommodation and Services Project were no longer achievable.

BASP was established in February 2025 as a short-term tactical solution to bridge the current gap in Dispersed Accommodation Provision in support of Hotel Exit through procuring two contracts. However, due to ongoing challenges and delays, Contract Award for both procurements, at the earliest, would have been late 2027, which brought mobilisation and delivery closer to that of the long term replacement of Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts (AASC).

Therefore, due to a reduced gap between Future Asylum Contract Transformation (FACT - AASC replacement) and BASP, a formal decision was made to close BASP early.