Visas: Sponsorship
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what security protocols are in place to protect sensitive personal and commercial data submitted by sponsor employers as part of visa and sponsorship compliance processes.
Answered by Mike Tapp
The Home Office routinely requires additional evidence from sponsors. The evidence requested is proportionate to the purpose of its use.
The Home Office has appropriate technical and organisational safeguards in place and applies a sensible, risk-based approach in line with Article 32 of the GDPR.
Inbound data is received to secure gov.uk accounts, managed by security cleared persons. Teams are assigned to manage only certain application strands to reduce risk of data integrity compromise, with data being uploaded onto immigration systems promptly.
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