Asylum: Fraud
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Contract for the provision of Language Analysis Services, procurement reference tender_297373/1427482, how many and what proportion of asylum claims have been analysed because the claim of origin was in doubt.
Answered by Dame Angela Eagle
Language analysis reports are not used to determine a claimant’s place of origin as standalone evidence, but they provide expert additional evidence for caseworkers to be considered alongside other decision-making information.
Link to the published policy guidance on language analysis can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/language-analysis-instruction.
This guidance will be updated shortly to incorporate the new supplier.
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