4th September 2026
Liberal Democrat MP Lisa Smart received a further £2,000 from a company founded by businessman Safwan Adam several months after the Government ordered one of his companies out of the Home Office asylum accommodation supply chain.
The payment to Smart, the MP for Hazel Grove, was registered in the House of Commons Register of Members’ Financial Interests on 21 October 2025.
The donor was Adam Management Holdings Ltd, a company registered under number 13453522. Parliament records the payment as support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation.
It was not the first time Smart had received money from the company.
In August 2024, shortly after her election, Smart declared a £5,000 donation from Adam Management Holdings Limited for her general election campaign.
That puts the total declared support from Adam Management Holdings at £7,000.
The significance of the second payment lies in what happened in between.
The asylum accommodation connection
Adam Management Holdings is controlled by Safwan Adam, who is also a director of Stay Belvedere Hotels Ltd.
Companies House records show Adam was appointed a director of Stay Belvedere Hotels on 1 April 2021 and remains an active director.
Stay Belvedere was a subcontractor in the Government’s asylum accommodation system.
On 25 March 2025, the Home Office told Parliament that it had instructed prime contractor Clearsprings Ready Homes to remove Stay Belvedere from its supply chain.
The then Minister for Border Security and Asylum, Angela Eagle, said that “significant elements” of the subcontractor’s behaviour and performance had fallen below what the Government expected from a government supplier. She said the Home Office was also conducting a full audit of its asylum accommodation supply chain.
The Government subsequently confirmed that Stay Belvedere had been responsible for a significant part of the asylum accommodation estate, managing 51 hotels and Napier Barracks in spring 2025.
So by October 2025, when Smart’s further £2,000 payment was registered, the Government’s decision to remove Stay Belvedere from the asylum accommodation supply chain was already a matter of public record.
What the register shows
The parliamentary record establishes a straightforward chronology:
August 2024: Lisa Smart declares £5,000 from Adam Management Holdings Limited for her general election campaign.
25 March 2025: The Government announces that Stay Belvedere Hotels is being removed from the Clearsprings asylum accommodation supply chain following concerns about its behaviour and performance.
21 October 2025: Smart registers a further £2,000 from Adam Management Holdings Ltd.
The two payments total £7,000.
The £2,000 payment is independently recorded in databases drawing on the parliamentary register, including MPFolio and MPData.
What the evidence does not show
There is no evidence in the parliamentary register that the £2,000 payment was connected to asylum policy, Home Office contracting or Stay Belvedere.
Nor does the payment establish that Smart did anything improper.
A political donation, when properly declared, is not evidence of corruption or an improper exchange. The available records do not establish that Smart changed a vote, took an official action or altered her political position because of the money.
The important issue is therefore one of knowledge and due diligence, rather than an allegation of wrongdoing.
By the time the second payment was registered, the Government had publicly announced its decision to remove Stay Belvedere from the asylum accommodation supply chain.
That raises questions about what, if anything, Smart or her representatives knew about Adam Management Holdings’ wider commercial connections when the further donation was accepted.
Did Smart’s office know that Adam Management Holdings was connected to Safwan Adam, a director of Stay Belvedere?
Did the office carry out fresh due diligence before accepting the second payment?
Was the Government’s decision concerning Stay Belvedere considered?
And was the donation discussed in the context of asylum accommodation, Home Office contracts or immigration policy?
Those questions cannot be answered from the register alone.
What the public record can establish is narrower but significant: Lisa Smart declared £5,000 from Adam Management Holdings for her 2024 general election campaign and a further £2,000 from the same company in October 2025 — after the Government had announced the removal of Stay Belvedere Hotels from its asylum accommodation supply chain.
That is the documented connection. The circumstances surrounding the later payment remain a matter for further reporting.
