Written Question·Home Office·UIN 8484

Immigration: Applications

Tabled: 10 October 2024
Answered: 21 October 2024

Question

Kim Johnson

LabourLiverpool Riverside

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department confidentially destroys third party data received as part of Equifax checks conducted in fee waiver applications.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The Home Office have had contracts to enable financial checking since at least 2014 and therefore financial checks may have been used as part of fee waiver considerations from this date.As outlined in the Fee Waiver guidance, checks may be undertaken with...

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