Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's contract entitled Contract for the provision of Language Analysis Services, procurement reference tender_297373/1427482, how many and what proportion of asylum claims have been analysed because the claim of origin was in doubt.

Language analysis reports are not used to determine a claimant’s place of origin as standalone evidence, but they provide expert additional evidence for caseworkers to be considered alongside other decision-making information.

Link to the published policy guidance on language analysis can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/language-analysis-instruction.

This guidance will be updated shortly to incorporate the new supplier.