Another aspect of this squalid affair; from yesterday's Times
Jim Carroll

Asylum Wristband Row Company Pays Chief £1m
Dominic Kennedy

A company that forced asylum seekers to wear red wristbands is to be summoned before parliament after it was disclosed that one of its directors is being paid nearly £1 million.
Clearsprings, which is contracted by the Home Office to look after immigrants, was criticised for requiring the bands to be worn in exchange for meals.
Company records show that its highest paid director is receiving £960,000 a year. Clearsprings is owned by the brothers Graham and Jeff King, of south Essex. Several years ago it was at the centre of complaints over its plans to set up bail hostels.
The company dropped a policy of forcing asylum seekers in Cardiff to wear the wristbands. Now MPs are furious that the company is making big profits and paying fat-cat boardroom salaries.
Clearsprings Ready Homes made £3million on a turnover of £29million, according to company filings.
Its parent company Clearsprings (Management) nearly trebled pay for its three-man board from £494, 000 to £1. 3 million. The company also disclosed that HMRC was conducting an
inquiry into its tax affairs.
The Mail on Sunday reported that Clearsprings was housing asylum seekers at a hotel near Gatwick where they had to eat away from other guests.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs committee, said of the company:
"We will be calling them in." MPs had warned the home secretary, Theresa May, about the agreements, he said.
"The situation regarding Clearsprings is most concerning. There have been numerous complaints which ought to have alerted the Home Office.
The taxpayer needs value for money, not to be ripped off by providers providing an inadequate service, " he added He said the committee would question James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, when he appears before MPs tomorrow. Stephen Doughty, the
Labour MP, has secured a debate on asylum contracts this week.
Clearsprings did not respond.