Overseas Students: Deportation

(asked on 29th October 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many students of each institution have been deported from UK universities and colleges as a result of Educational Testing Service investigations in each month since February 2014.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 17th November 2014

Following investigations, significant steps have been taken to identify, locate and remove those who have fraudulently obtained visas through abuse of ETS.

The Home Office publishes quarterly transparency data which shows the total number of individuals who have been removed as a result of their involvement in the Educational Testing Service fraud. The most recent published data covers the period up to 30 June 2014 and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-and-permanent-migration-data-august-2014

As at 30 June, the Home Office had made more than 1800 refusal and removal decisions, carried out almost 800 enforcement visits, detained over 300
individuals and removed over 90.

We are unable to break the number of individuals who have been removed into sub groups based on the institution of study as this runs the risk of making those individuals identifiable. In addition to this the data that would be required to make the requested breakdown is not available from one source and would incur disproportionate costs to gather it manually.

As I stated to the House on 24 June, the Home Office will provide regularupdates to the House. These updates will be provided as part of the
regular publication of data on the department’s work on borders and immigration.

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