Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will conduct a review of the accuracy of the methodology used to collect immigration statistics.

Home Office statistics comply with the Code of Practice for Statistics (“the Code”). This means these statistics meet the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value as set out in ‘the Code’. Our statistical practice is regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) which sets the standards of the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to. Further information about official statistics can be found on the (OSR) website.