Hotel owners are approached to hand over their properties to outsourced companies, which run the business on behalf of the Home Office.
Three large firms have contracts to run the hotels.
One, Serco, provides some 109 hotels in England, according to a High Court judgement from December 2022, mostly in the Midlands, East and North West.
Serco, which also provides other services on behalf of the government, references “growth” in its immigration work in its 2022 annual report.
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