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<p><del class="ministerial">The best department to approach for information on charging
is the Ministry of Justice.</del></p><p><ins class="ministerial">After further conversation
with MOJ colleagues, please see amended response to your written question;</ins></p><p><ins
class="ministerial">The number of people charged with a criminal offence will be data
held by the Police, the number of asylum seekers within that total will be a subset.
It’s not information we hold.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">All asylum claimants
are subject to mandatory security checks to confirm their identity and to link it
to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality
checks. These checks are critical to the delivery of a safe and secure immigration
system.</ins></p><p><ins class="ministerial">If the asylum claimant is aged 16 years
or over, their fingerprints will be checked against those fingerprints held on the
police biometric database, IDENT1. An asylum decision-maker will be able to confirm
the presence of a criminal offence charge. However, this information is not held in
a reportable format and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost as it would
require a manual trawl of case records to retrieve. </ins></p><p> </p>
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