Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her letter of 18 November 2022 to all hon. and Rt hon. Members on Use of Hotels for Asylum Seekers, what goods or services are (a) supplied and (b) procured by her Department from third parties to provide support to asylum seekers; who supplies those goods and services; at what cost those goods and services are supplied; and to which budget lines those costs fall.

Accommodation costs including costs associated with the provision of goods and services related to accommodation are considered to be commercially confidential, therefore the Home Office does not publish this information. However, total expenditure on asylum is published in the Home Office Annual Report and Accounts, available at https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ho-annual-reports-and-accounts.

The copy of the factsheet and briefing pack will be a live document and will be reviewed regularly.