Statement on Serco asylum accommodation list

The list of local authorities Serco shared on its website for landlords is not a Home Office list and is not even a current list of existing local authorities. It is not a list of any existing or future asylum accommodation.

Serco is one of several companies contracted by the previous government 6 years ago to provide dispersal asylum accommodation and this list simply appears to reflect the geographical list of local authorities covered by the Serco contracts at that time.

We are restoring order to the asylum system and cutting costs to taxpayers by reducing the number of people we are required to accommodate through a rapid increase in asylum decision-making and the removal of more than 24,000 people with no right to be in the UK.