Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many reported cases of fraudulent visa sponsorship offers linked to the Homes for Ukraine scheme have been recorded since its launch.

Ukrainian guests arriving under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are supported by a robust programme of safeguards. All sponsors and adults living in a sponsors’ household are subject to stringent security checks before an applicant is allowed to travel to the UK. Local authorities conduct further checks as a second layer of safeguarding.

Local authorities are responsible for the detection and prevention of sponsor payment related fraud on the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

The Home Office does not hold data on refusal reasons and, as such, numbers of applications that were refused on the basis of being fraudulent cannot be provided.