Written Question·Home Office·UIN 100683

Asylum: Housing

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 6 January 2026
Named Day

Question

Carla Lockhart

Democratic Unionist PartyUpper Bann

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether contractors operating residential accommodation on behalf of her Department in the Upper Bann constituency have exceeded permitted profit margins.

Answer

Mike Tapp
Profit margins being exceeded are not broken down by specific constituencies.Mears, who manage the Home Office’s asylum accommodation for Northern Ireland and other contracted regions, did exceed their profit margins. The Home Office is in the process of ...

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