Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to her Department's document entitled Contract for the provision of Language Analysis Services, notice 2022/S 000-009633, how many and what proportion of people who were determined by the supplier under the Contract to have made a false claim of origin were given (a) asylum (b) any other grant of protection or leave.

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.