Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of the reliability of information contained in the International Passenger Survey for the purpose of migration control; and if she will make a statement.

The International Passenger Survey is undertaken by the Office for National Statistics, the UK’s independent statistical institute. The Office for National Statistics regularly reviews the quality and reliability of the International Passenger Survey (IPS), in line with the requirements of the UK Statistics Authority and the Government Statistics Service ‘Code of Practice for Official Statistics.