Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 6 March 2023 to Question 159040 on Asylum: Housing; whether the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts High Profile Notification team holds information on of the number of incidents reported by each accommodation provider.

The High Profile Notification (HPN) team records and holds details of any act or incident reported by providers involving asylum support service users, asylum support accommodation premises or asylum support service providers that as a consequence of the act or incident, one or more of the following could apply:

• has the potential for serious criminal charges to be brought against the service user as the perpetrator
• has the potential for serious criminal charges to be brought on behalf of the service user as the victim
• poses a risk of serious harm to a service user or others
• has the potential for third-party statutory investigation or significant intervention

The HPN team records details of incidents reported by providers that cover the following categories:

• Violence/Inappropriate Behaviour/Criminal activity – Non-Sexual
• Violence/Inappropriate Behaviour/Criminal activity – Sexual in Nature
• Threat of self-harm
• Attempted suicide
• Newsworthy but Non-Violent
• Self-Harm
• Death of a Service User (cause to be confirmed)

These figures are not available in a reportable format and providing information could only be done at disproportionate cost.