Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many reports of suspected sham marriages were received from superintendent registrars in each of the last five years.
Reports of suspected sham marriage were reported to the Home Office by Superintendent Registers, on 2,791 occasions in financial year 2015/16, 2,960 in 2016/17, 2,677 in 2017/18, 3,246 in 2018/19 and 2,918 in 2019/20.