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1007770

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 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

1007078

registered interest
date	14/11/2018
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, what proportion of the Test of English for International Communication tests were found to be (a) invalid and (b) questionable in the review carried out by Educational Testing Service for his Department in 2014.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	191254
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2018 answer text <p>UKVI transparency data provides details of invalid and questionable test results 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_01 contains 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><p>Further details (including on total number of test analysed by ETS) have previously been provided to the Home Affairs Select Committee. This information continues to be available on their website.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 19/11/2018 17:58:30 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

917499

registered interest
date	05/06/2018
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, pursuant to the contribution of the Minister for Immigration of 4 June, Official Report, column 22, what progress has been made on his Department's review of the cases of people whose leave to remain was curtailed in response to information received from Educational Testing Service but remain in the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	149895
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2018 answer text <p>We are continuing to review the position for those who remain in the UK who have live litigation. As a result of the Immigration Act 2014 there is now only a right of appeal where claims raising asylum, humanitarian protection or human rights claims are refused.</p><p>Similar provisions are set out in the Immigration (European Economic Area) Regulations 2016<em>. </em>Some of those refused as a result of an allegation of ETS fraud have made a Human Rights claim and will have an in country right of appeal if refused (unless the claim is clearly unfounded).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 11/06/2018 14:59:44 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

909317

registered interest
date	22/05/2018
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, whether his Department has received evidence that sessions of Toeic tests administered by ETS before 2014 included both genuine and fraudulent entries.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/06/2018 answer text <p>As previously set out to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC), where ETS analysis found no direct evidence of cheating but they could not be confident in the test result because of the large number of confirmed invalid results at the same test centre, a test result would be deemed “questionable”.</p><p>Nobody with a questionable test certificate should have action taken against them on this basis without first being given the chance to re-sit a test and attend an interview.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 04/06/2018 12:43:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

909187

registered interest
date	21/05/2018
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, whether his Department has made an estimate of the cost to the public purse of requiring people accused by ETS of cheating in Test of English for International Communication assessments to take another English language test.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	146059
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/05/2018 answer text <p>No action was taken against anybody with a questionable certificate for that reason without first giving them an opportunity to re-sit their test. For those with an invalid certificate, the Court have consistently found that our standard evidence is sufficient to satisfy the presumption of fraud.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 30/05/2018 14:03:04 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

904890

registered interest
date	15/05/2018
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, pursuant to the Answer of 15 May 2018 to Question 142744 on the Educational Testing Service, how many people whose results were marked as questionable were given the opportunity to (a) re-sit a test with another provider and (b) attend an interview; and of those people how many were subsequently refused immigration leave.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	144151
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2018 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. 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.</p><p>Data is not held centrally in a way that allows us to give an up to date answer to this question without manually checking individual case records which could only be undertaken at disproportionate cost. UKVI transparency data does provide 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 21/05/2018 14:33:52 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

901276

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
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, what steps his Department took to validate allegations made by ETS that individuals had cheated in their Test of English for International Communication; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	142744
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>Further to PQ 140550, a number of steps were taken to ensure that the ETS process for declaring test results invalid was suitably robust. This included commissioning an independent expert report from a leading Professor of Forensic Speech Science which concluded that the number of false matches would be very small, and that the system used were more likely to produce false negatives than false positives.</p><p>Where a result was marked as questionable, nobody was refused immigration leave on that basis without first being given the opportunity to re-sit a test with another provider or attend an interview.</p> answering member constituency Romsey and Southampton North answering member printed Caroline Nokes question first answered 15/05/2018 13:11:26 answering member 4048 label Biography information for Caroline Nokes
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

901277

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many decisions since February 2014 to curtail a person's leave to remain in the UK on the ground of cheating in an English language test administered by ETS have been overturned on appeal.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	142745
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 142746 question first answered 15/05/2018 16:51:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

901278

registered interest
date	10/05/2018
answering body	Ministry of Justice
answering dept id	54
answering dept short name	Justice
answering dept sort name	Justice
hansard heading	Educational Testing Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many decisions since February 2014 to curtail a person's leave to remain in the UK on the ground of cheating in an English language test administered by ETS are subject to appeal.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	142746
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2018 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally, and could only be provided at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer grouped question UIN 142745 question first answered 15/05/2018 16:51:24 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms