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An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The ...
It has operated all such accommodation in Wales since 2012, a contract which was valued at £119 million in 2016. [11] [2] The company currently has two ten-year contracts with the British government to operate accommodation for asylum seekers in Wales and the South of England until 2029, at a total cost of over £1 billion. [1]
In June 2013 a surge of asylum-seekers resulted in the detention facilities exceeding their designed capacity. Regular operating capacity is 1094 people, with a 'contingency capacity' of 2724. After the interception of four boats in six days carrying 350, the Immigration Department said there were 2960 "irregular maritime arrivals" being held. [36]
However, the Home Office says the use of hotels is a “short-term measure”, and asylum seekers usually lose access to accommodation support when their claim for asylum, and any subsequent ...
A Direct Provision centre at Lissywollen, Athlone, in 2013 – one of 34 such centres in Ireland. [1]Direct provision (Irish: Soláthar díreach) is a system of asylum seeker accommodation used in the Republic of Ireland.
Expenditure on asylum accommodation and support has risen significantly in the past four years, with think tank IPPR estimating that costs have gone from £739m in 2019/20 to £4.7bn in 2023/24.
Critics had warned that the policy, abandoned after legal action, would put asylum seekers’ safety at risk. Plan to remove asylum seeker housing licensing requirements scrapped, court told Skip ...
In April 2024, the state of Berlin terminated three contracts with the Serco subsidiary ORS to operate refugee accommodation due to "serious deficiencies". When an asylum seeker died in an ORS facility, the staff did not notice for four weeks.