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date	15/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 22,694 people who had taken the Test of English for International Communication tests from 2011 to 2014 and whose results were found by the Educational Testing Service to have been questionable were invited (a) to resit a test and (b) to attend an interview.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	191848
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>No action to refuse leave on the grounds of a questionable certificate was taken against anybody without first giving them the opportunity to re-sit their test with another provider or attend an interview with a Home Office official.</p><p>Whilst ETS notified the Home Office of 22,694 questionable UK test certificates, the actual number where it was relevant to require a fresh test and an interview with a Home Office official was much smaller. The exact information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 14:58:13 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

1007771

registered interest
date	15/11/2018
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the 22,694 people who had taken the Test of English for International Communication test from 2011 to 2014 and whose results were found by the Educational Testing Service to have been questionable subsequently had (a) no action taken against them and (b) their visa cancelled or curtailed.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	191849
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 20/11/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost. UKVI transparency data provides details of refusal, curtailments and removal decisions in response to the abuse of secure English language testing. A link to the most recent available data is provided here;</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-february-2017</a></p><p>The table in SELT_02 is the closest match to the information requested. The data was last published in February 2017 and only contains data to the last quarter (December 2016). ETS data is no longer published after this date.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 20/11/2018 15:04:35 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms