Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the Memorandum of Understanding between her Department and the Home Office published in December 2015, whether nationality data is used in the data-matching process that matches her Department's records with Home Office records submitted to it.

Nationality data is not used in the data matching process that matches Department for Education data with the Home Office.

The current Memorandum of Understanding between the Department and the Home Office, which was revised in October 2016, is in the House Library.