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Asylum: Fraud

Asked by Rupert LoweRestore BritainHome OfficeTabled Answered 18 February 2025UIN 30500

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled Contract for the provision of Language Analysis Services, notice 2022/S 000-009633, how many and what proportion of people who were determined by the supplier under the Contract to have made a false claim of origin were given (a) asylum (b) any other grant of protection or leave.

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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