17,103 payments the department coded as asylum.
Track public money, supplier exposure, and missing links.
Use this page to separate disclosed values, control rows, scrutiny estimates, and supplier exposure without collapsing unlike records into one fake total.
Home Office payments
Every asylum payment over £25,000, 2010 to 2026
From 276 published files, all of which parse.
Most asylum spending is never published payment by payment.
This is not the cost of asylum. It is only what the Home Office itemises: payments over £25,000 to a named supplier. The National Audit Office puts actual2024/25 spending at £4.90bn.See what is published and what is not.
- Prepaid Financial Services£669.2m
- Calder Conferences£540.5m
- Clearsprings Ready Homes£519.3m
- CWT (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel)£365.9m
- Serco£352.3m
- Sodexo Motivation Solutions UK Ltd£242.6m
- G4S Care & Justice Services (UK)£215.5m
- Mitie FM£135.5m
- Sodexo Pass£134.0m
- Corporate Travel Management (North)£101.7m
- Mears£81.4m
- Treasury Solicitor's Office£66.0m
Supplier names are as the Home Office published them. Group companies are kept separate unless a merge is documented, so Clearsprings Ready Homes, Clearsprings Management and Clearel appear as three entries.Download all 369 suppliers (JSON). Source: Home Office spending over £25,000, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Integrity techniques
ownership
Beneficial ownership chain mapping
Link site operator, freeholder, PSCs, directors, and charges so the economic beneficiary is not hidden behind a hotel brand.
Integrity model adapted for asylum hotels
entity_risk
Company status, shell, and dormant signals
Flag dissolved, dormant, shell-like, or newly formed entities appearing in route-linked supplier chains.
Lancashire integrity outputs
procurement
Cross-body supplier matching
Track the same supplier, operator, or owner across Home Office, council, NHS, and wider public-body contexts.
Cross-council supplier model
site_intelligence
Property-to-spend linking
Join named sites and addresses to supplier rows, facilities work, land records, and local property intelligence.
Lancashire asset enrichment pattern
procurement
Threshold-splitting detection
Identify repeated sub-threshold awards or clustered spend that may avoid fuller procurement scrutiny.
Threshold manipulation checks
timing
Temporal clustering and sudden activation
Look for bursts of awards, site activation, or ownership changes around hotel opening or route-policy shocks.
Temporal clustering logic
network
Director overlap and network scoring
Use co-director, shared-address, and linked-company graphs to identify repeated groups around multiple sites or suppliers.
Network centrality and co-director analysis
governance
Revolving-door and interest checks
Compare public decision-makers, registers of interest, company roles, and supplier relationships where route-linked decisions are material.
Governance integrity layer
spend
Price, volume, and repeat-pattern anomalies
Find unusually high per-head, per-room, per-night, or repeat local response costs compared with peer areas and prior periods.
Accountability mart pattern analysis
transparency
Secrecy-gap tracking
Treat unnamed hotel use, withheld site lists, and opaque operator ownership as reportable system risks rather than background noise.
asylumstats hotel-evidence model
Scope and publish rules
Route or scheme specific
Official datasets that directly identify an asylum route, refugee resettlement scheme, refugee family route, or humanitarian route.
Local route-relevant
Council statements, FOIs, planning records, or local documents that explicitly refer to asylum hotels, refugee resettlement, Afghan arrivals, Ukraine arrivals, or related local response.
Context only
General council finance, procurement, or supplier data kept as research context and never merged into public asylum or refugee charts unless a row is explicitly tied to a route or scheme.
Do not publish an owner or operator claim unless the site-to-entity match has strong documentary backing.
Do not treat generic council spend or procurement as asylum or refugee spend unless the row text, supplier, site, or source explicitly ties it to a route or scheme.
Publish risk signals with provenance and caveats, not as unsupported accusations.
Keep route-specific facts, local evidence, and context infrastructure visibly distinct on public pages.
Inclusion rules
Include publicly if the source explicitly identifies an asylum route, refugee scheme, family route, or humanitarian route.
Keep small boat arrivals separate from refugee resettlement schemes and from Ukraine humanitarian routes.
Treat local hotel statements, resettlement housing statements, FOIs, and planning records as local route-relevant evidence, not as national totals.
Keep general council finance and procurement as background context unless a row can be attributed to a specific route or scheme.