Ben Obese-Jecty MP: written questions
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Asylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79652More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the Stage Gate status is of each site in the Asylum Accommodation Programme.
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79651More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, which smaller to medium sites are be
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79650More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, with which (a) local authorities, (b
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79649More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, when the strategic refresh of the As
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79648More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what additional sites are included w
Answer: The Asylum Accommodation Programme (AAP) was initially set up as one of a range of responses in the Home Office to tackle a growing demand of asylum accommodation to reduce reliance on costly contingency options such as hotels, looking specifically at lar...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79647More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the significant extension of th
Answer: The Asylum Transformation Programme consists of a number of projects delivering improvements to the people, processes and technology that make up the Asylum system. Those improvements are delivered across 4 operational areas or programme pillars; Asylum C...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79646More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the data tables accompanying the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what the new priorities were that re
Answer: The Asylum Transformation Programme consists of a number of projects delivering improvements to the people, processes and technology that make up the Asylum system. Those improvements are delivered across 4 operational areas or programme pillars; Asylum C...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79645More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, what assessment has she made of the potential implications for he
Answer: The Asylum Transformation Programme consists of a number of projects delivering improvements to the people, processes and technology that make up the Asylum system. Those improvements are delivered across 4 operational areas or programme pillars; Asylum C...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79644More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on implementing an asylum support discontinuation and move on function as part of the Asylum Transformation Programme.
Answer: The Asylum Transformation Programme consists of a number of projects delivering improvements to the people, processes and technology that make up the Asylum system. Those improvements are delivered across 4 operational areas or programme pillars; Asylum C...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79643More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the transparency data entitled 29 September 2024: Asylum Transformation Programme Accounting Officer Assessment summary, published on 5 June 2025, what her definition is of an outcom
Answer: Outcome focussed customer journey’ is terminology used within the Asylum Transformation Programme’s strategic objectives. The objective describes the programmes intent to streamline the end-to-end journey of claimants by delivering a number of interventio...
Answered 22 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylumHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79642More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the scope is of work to change (a) people capabilities, (b) processes and (c) technology for asylum (i) casework, (ii) accommodation and (iii) other support through the Asylum Transformation Prog
Answer: The Asylum Transformation Programme consists of a number of projects delivering improvements to the people, processes and technology that make up the Asylum system. Those improvements are delivered across 4 operational areas or programme pillars; Asylum C...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79641More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what each of the clusters of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme are responsible for implementing.
Answer: Ahead of the roll out of FACT in 2029 when the current AASC contracts end, it was determined that a faster short term measure needed to be introduced to find more non hotel based asylum accommodation, in answer to this need BASP was developed to bridge th...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79640More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what progress she has made on preparing an outline business case for the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
Answer: Under the Asylum Support and Accommodation Programme (ASAP) now known as Future Asylum Contract Transformation (FACT) Project, a Delivery Model Assessment was undertaken looking at the current contractual landscape for Asylum Support. This includes the cu...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79639More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority Annual Report 2024-25, published on 11 August 2025, which teams attended the most recent planning workshop for the As
Answer: Asylum Support Accommodation Programme is a Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP) programme, currently classified as Tier A – Monitoring. The programme engages in monthly meetings with its NISTA representative to review progress and discuss delivery ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79638More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the Advice, Issue Reporting and Eligibility contract as part of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
Answer: Under the Asylum Support and Accommodation Programme (ASAP) now known as Future Asylum Contract Transformation (FACT) Project, a Delivery Model Assessment was undertaken looking at the current contractual landscape for Asylum Support. This includes the cu...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79637More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of replacing the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contracts as part of the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
Answer: Under the Asylum Support and Accommodation Programme (ASAP) now known as Future Asylum Contract Transformation (FACT) Project, a delivery model assessment was undertaken looking at the current Asylum contractual landscape alongside future business needs, ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79636More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which locations her Department plans to provide new asylum accommodation under the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
Answer: Under the Asylum Support and Accommodation Programme (ASAP) now known as Future Asylum Contract Transformation (FACT) Project, a Delivery Model Assessment was undertaken looking at the current contractual landscape for Asylum Support. This includes the cu...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAsylum: HousingHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79635More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress her Department has made on implementing the Asylum Support Accommodation Programme.
Answer: The Asylum Support Accommodation Programme is currently developing its Outline Business Case (OBC) for internal approval, anticipated towards the end of 2025. This OBC will shape the next phase of the programme by setting out the procurement strategy for ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordManston Asylum Processing CentreHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79634More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department plans to replace the (a) operator and (b) healthcare service contracts as part of the Manston Transformation Programme.
Answer: The Department is in the process of replacing these service contracts.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordManston Asylum Processing CentreHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79633More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate her Department has made of what the capacity of Manston will be following the completion of the Manston Transformation Programme.
Answer: There are no plans to increase capacity, and this is being reduced as efficiencies have been made to the processing of arrivals and asylum case working.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordManston Asylum Processing CentreHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79632More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what new accommodation her Department plans to build at Manston as part of the Manston Transformation Programme.
Answer: Plans for further improvements to the processing and short-term holding facilities at Manston are under review and have not yet been finalised.
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordManston Asylum Processing CentreHome OfficeTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79631More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent progress she has made on implementing the Manston Transformation Programme.
Answer: The procurement process is proceeding to planned timelines. The new contract for healthcare services was recently awarded. The single contract will replace multiple existing contracts, set up at pace since 2018, and reflects the improvements that have bee...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordBrownfield, Infrastructure and Land Fund: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79630More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated from the Brownfield Infrastructure and Land fund to (a) Huntingdonshire District Council and (b) Cambridgeshire since the establishment of tha
Answer: No funding has been allocated to Huntingdonshire District Council from the Brownfield, Infrastructure and Land (BIL) programme. In Cambridgeshire, one BIL project is now in contract, for a £23.35m grant (alongside funding from the Cambridge City Deal) to ...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordAffordable Housing: CambridgeshireMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79629More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how much funding has been allocated from the Affordable Homes Programme to (a) Huntingdonshire District Council and (b) Cambridgeshire since the establishment of that programme.
Answer: I refer the hon. Members to the Written Ministerial Statement made on 2 July (HCWS771).
Answered 20 Oct 2025
Original Parliament recordCultural Heritage: Urban AreasDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled 10 Oct 2025AnsweredUIN 79628More
Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress she has made on heritage high street regeneration programmes.
Answer: This year the government launched new funding for heritage which will benefit high streets and beyond.The £15m Heritage at Risk Capital Fund which enables individuals and organisations in the most deprived neighbourhoods in England to rescue and repair at...
Answered 20 Oct 2025
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