Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of whether test centres have submitted the same voice recording clips for all students even when the Toeic English language test was taken in test conditions; and if he will make a statement.

The criminal investigations into the fraud carried out by the Home Office uncovered evidence of the use of proxy test takers, the type of fraud also shown in the Panorama documentary. Whilst there have been suggestions of other methods of fraud, no material evidence has been uncovered during the course of the criminal investigation to support these scenarios.

Furthermore at the time the Home Office commissioned an independent expert from the respected firm Kroll Ontrack to consider this issue. They found no evidence in the information made available to them to suggest the substitution of recordings in this way.