Immigration: Applications
Commons · Question 8484 · Tabled 10 Oct 2024 · Home Office · Official record
Answered 21 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Kim Johnson
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
Answered by Seema Malhotra, 21 Oct 2024
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...