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573480

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date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department takes to prevent people using a false identity being granted entry clearance to the UK.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44145
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in relation to people from Pakistan using false identity, in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.</p><p>All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks.</p><p>These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records and against previous Immigration history.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 44146 question first answered 12/09/2016 15:53:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573481

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Hanif Qureshi
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department took to assess the grounds for granting a visa to Mufti Hanif Qureshi.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44144
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/09/2016 answer text <p>All visa applications are considered on their individual merits and in line with the Immigration Rules.</p><p>In order to safeguard an individual’s personal information and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 the Home Office is limited in what information it can provide when the request is made by someone who is not the applicant. The Home Office is therefore unable to provide the information requested.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 15/09/2016 14:40:36 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573483

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances: Pakistan
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many times her Department has been made aware of people from Pakistan using a false identity to obtain entry clearance to the UK in the last five years.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44146
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>The Home Office does not hold the specific information in relation to people from Pakistan using false identity, in the format requested. To obtain it would involve interrogating individual case records, at disproportionate cost.</p><p>All out of country entry clearance applications are subject to an extensive range of mandatory and discretionary checks.</p><p>These include, but are not limited to, identity, travel document verification, searches against national and international police records and against previous Immigration history.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill grouped question UIN 44145 question first answered 12/09/2016 15:53:05 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

573492

registered interest
date	02/09/2016
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Entry Clearances
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Urdu speakers are employed at the (a) Home Office in Marsham Street, London and (b) British High Commission in Islamabad to investigate the background of people applying for entry clearance.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	44164
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/09/2016 answer text <p>There are no Urdu speakers employed by the Home Office in Marsham Street involved in processing Entry Clearance, as entry clearance applications are not considered at that location. There are 11 Urdu speaking staff employed at the British High Commission in Islamabad and seven at the British embassy in Abu Dhabi involved in the processing of visa applications, including investigating the background of people applying for entry clearance.</p><p>Under our ‘hub and spoke’ arrangements, applications lodged in Pakistan for settlement, applications under the Points Based System, and EEA applications are processed at the Visa section in Sheffield. Applications lodged in Pakistan for visits are processed in Abu Dhabi. The British High Commission in Islamabad processes Official applications made in-house.</p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 12/09/2016 16:14:40 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh