Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many companies had registered with his Department as having multiple domestic properties available to be used as temporary residences for (a) refugees and (b) people seeking asylum in the UK as of 31 January 2024.

The Home Office does not hold the information you have requested.

Accommodation is provided by commercial partners; Serco, Clearsprings Ready Homes and Mears under the Asylum Accommodation Support Contracts. Further details can be found at: AASC_-_Schedule_2_-_Statement_of_Requirements.pdf (parliament.uk). Data on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation (including in contingency hotels and other contingency accommodation) is published in table Asy_D11 here: Asylum and resettlement datasets - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).