The Home Office is responsible for the safety and wellbeing of people in its care, whether they are claiming asylum or pending relocation. But the National Audit Office reported that, in January 2024, the Home Office was still developing specific measures to assess how well providers were keeping residents safe in large sites. When we asked the Home Office about the safety of asylum seekers at large sites, it told us that there were benefits from the perspective of the asylum seeker of being in a large site rather than a hotel, such as dedicated healthcare provision and because they could have their asylum interviews there. We questioned what the Home Office was doing to address the particular issue of suicide or self-harm for those in its care. The Home Office outlined 27 Qq 62–64; Letter from Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, to Dame Meg Hillier DBE MP and Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP, Chairs, Public Accounts Committee and Home Affairs Committee - Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership, dated 25 April 2024 28 Qq 28, 29; C&AG’s Report, Asylum Accommodation, para 1.4; Independent Commission for Aid Impact follow- up: UK aid to refugees in the UK, 10 April 2024 29 Letter from Matthew Rycroft, Permanent Secretary, Home Office, to Dame Meg Hillier DBE MP and Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP, Chairs, Public Accounts Committee and Home Affairs Committee - Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership, dated 25 April 2024 14 Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership that it undertakes screening to check suitability for room-sharing and that if tensions arise there were “signposted ways” for people to take up their concerns. It did not outline what these ways were, but it said that there was a migrant helpline available to all asylum seekers. The National Audit Office reported that decisions on who shares rooms in large sites were based primarily around people speaking the same language, and that there had been 283 incidents relating to s