Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Regarding decisions on what contracts we exit and in what order we exit a contract, it will take account of value-for-money considerations as well as the sort of factors the Deputy identified, such as numbers in a particular community. We are encouraging beneficiaries of temporary protection to look to more independent futures personally and support them in that. For example, the refurbishment programme and the modular housing programme create avenues for that greater independence to be facilitated. We recognise not just the impact on particular communities that have taken in large numbers of people but also - people have talked about it before at this committee – for example, the impact on tourism economies and so on of significant numbers of serviced accommodation beds and hotel beds being taken up for Ukrainian accommodation purposes. Our intention is to try to consolidate our accommodation stock on the Ukrainian side. We hope some of those providers will pivot towards international protection, where we have a need, but that is a matter for providers themselves.