Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what process was undertaken by the Home Office when it decided to extend the Commercial and Operating Managers Procuring Asylum Support contracts with Serco, G4S and Clearsprings.

The Commercial and Operating Managers Procuring Asylum Support (COMPASS) contracts with Serco, G4S and Clearsprings for the provision of asylum accommodation and support, commenced in 2012 for an initial term of five years until 2017 with the option to extend them by up to a further two years. The Home Office has exercised its right to extend the contracts from 2017 to 2019 whilst it procures the future provisions from 2019.