Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of the student immigrants who were found to have either invalid or questionable English language test results by the Government's recent review of the test provider Educational Testing Services were granted leave to enter the UK in each of the last five years.

As I said in my oral statement to Parliament on 24 June 2014, analysis from the
American arm of Educational Testing Service (ETS) for a number of their UK test centres
has identified more than 29,000 invalid results and more than 19,000
questionable results.
The analyses from other ETS test centres in the UK are still to be received and it is,
therefore, likely that the true totals will be higher.
As these test results were obtained in the UK in 2012 and 2013 and, where used
in an immigration application, will have been used chiefly to extend temporary
leave, it is reasonable to conclude that a significant proportion first came to
this country under the student visa system that operated prior to April 2011.
Analysis is on-going and it is not possible to provide further data at present.
As I stated to the House on 24 June, the Home Office will provide regular updates
on progress on further information we receive from ETS.