1 This review set out to examine whether the Home Office managed the Bicester Accommodation Centre pilot well. Within this scope, we considered whether:
■ whether the decision to pilot accommodation centres was taken after due consideration of the need for the centres, their expected cost and benefits, and the cost and benefits of other available options to speed up the processing of asylum applications and remove unsuccessful applicants;
■ whether the Bicester business case and the benefit realisation exercises were soundly based and reasonable;
■ whether key decisions with cost implications were taken at the right time and took full account of the risks to value for money; and
■ whether the Home Office acted soon enough to reduce costs and terminate the project when it became clear that asylum numbers were falling and that the Bicester centre would not be needed.