C&AG: Properties used by IPAS lacked proper documentation

Due diligence documentation on 20 sample properties used by the International Protection Accommodation Service was 'significantly incomplete'

The Department of Justice.  Insurance certificates were only available for 40% of the properties, and appropriate fire certificates clearly covering the proposed properties were only available for 45%.

Due diligence documentation provided for 20 sample properties used by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) was “significantly incomplete”, staff from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) discovered.

Insurance certificates were only available for 40% of the properties, and appropriate fire certificates clearly covering the proposed properties were only available for 45%.