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<p>Following investigations, significant steps have been taken to identify, locate
and remove those who have fraudulently obtained visas through abuse of ETS. <br><br>The
Home Office publishes quarterly transparency data which shows the total number of
individuals who have been removed as a result of their involvement in the Educational
Testing Service fraud. The most recent published data covers the period up to 30 June
2014 and can be found at: <br><br><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-august-2014"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-august-2014</a>
<br><br>As at 30 June, the Home Office had made more than 1800 refusal and removal
decisions, carried out almost 800 enforcement visits, detained over 300 <br>individuals
and removed over 90.<br><br>We are unable to break the number of individuals who have
been removed into sub groups based on the institution of study as this runs the risk
of making those individuals identifiable. In addition to this the data that would
be required to make the requested breakdown is not available from one source and would
incur disproportionate costs to gather it manually. <br><br>As I stated to the House
on 24 June, the Home Office will provide regularupdates to the House. These updates
will be provided as part of the <br>regular publication of data on the department’s
work on borders and immigration.</p><p> </p>
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