Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many immigration advisers were registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) in each year since 2016; how many complaints the OISC received about immigration advisers registered with them in each of those years; how many complaints resulted in a OISC reported wrongdoing on the part of the adviser; and in how many such cases the OISC (a) took action against the adviser and (b) referred the complaint.

The Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner’s (OISC) annual report and accounts sets out the number of immigration advisors, including the levels at which they are registered, the number of complaints received and how the OISC dealt with those complaints, and the regulatory action that may be taken against organisations which are found to be in breach of the Commissioner’s Code of Standards. The reports for 2015/16 and 2016/17 can be viewed on the OISC’s website

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/583681/10574-OISC_Annual_Report_2016_Accessible2.pdf

and

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/677182/OISCAnnualReportAcounts2016.pdf.

Information relating to the period between 1 April 2017 and 31 March 2018 will be included in the OISC’s 2017/18 annual report and accounts.