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In 2016, G4S was fined £5.6m for the low standard of the asylum housing it provided in 2013/14. In Middlesbrough, when G4S inspected housing provided by Jomast – a company G4S subcontracts to – it found urgent defects in 14% of properties. Later, Home Office inspections found urgent defects in 91% of properties. Jomast was reported to be taking £8m from the taxpayer. As asylum seekers were being sent to live in squalid conditions, the government was still handing millions of pounds’ worth of contracts to the private housing providers.