Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to order a Home office investigation into (a) the circumstances and results of Mears Group’s decision to move 321 people from secure serviced apartments to hotels in Glasgow from 27 March 2020 and (b) the relationship between those decisions and the incidents at MacLays Hotels on 5 May 2020 and at Park Inn Hotel on 26 June 2020.

We have been working closely with all our service providers throughout the Covid 19 crisis were satisfied that Mears moved service users from apartments to hotels to enable them to deliver their services and meet some of their contractual obligations, particularly around emergency repairs in light of movement restrictions, and so they could further assure themselves of access to meals, translation services, onsite support, controlled welfare and health support and deliver a more appropriate service in light of the health crisis.