Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's asylum support statistics, how much (a) initial accommodation, (b) dispersal accommodation and (c) contingency accommodation across the country is provided by (i) Serco, (ii) Mears, (iii) Clearspring Homes, (iv) Corporate Travel Management and (v) via Cushman and Wakefield in the most recent period for which figures are available.

The Home Office is working closely with a range of stakeholders to fulfil its statutory obligations, while seeking to reduce the overall cost of asylum accommodation for the taxpayer.

Data, published quarterly, on the number of supported asylum seekers in accommodation can be found within the Asy_D11 tab of our most recent statistics release. This data can broken down by accommodation type. Immigration system statistics data tables - GOV.UK.