Sprakab

(asked on 17th November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the quality of service provided to her Department by Sprakab in decision-making on asylum claims; and whether she plans to review claims dealt with by that company.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 25th November 2014

As part of the contract competition undertaken in 2014, Sprakab and Verified provided strong evidence of the quality of the services offered. There are dedicated formal arrangements in place to monitor our suppliers’ compliance with the contract terms.

Sprakab also has its own internal quality checks, and – through the Swedish Migration Board – a sample of its tests are externally checked by the Immigration and Naturalisation Services (IND) of the Netherlands.

The quality of assessments made by Sprakab, have been thoroughly scrutinised by the Courts on a number of occasions. Where any criticisms have been made about methodology, changes have been made to address them. Most recently, in 2014, the Supreme Court agreed that Sprakab’s analyses were admissible in evidence, and for the conclusions they expressed to be given weight according to the reasoning and expertise used to support them.

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