Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 21 May 2018 to Question 144296, how many Tier 1 (general) applications were refused in each of the last five years where there were substantial differences of over £10,000 between the earnings used to claim points in an immigration application and an applicant’s HMRC records.

As I confirmed to the Home Affairs Select Committee on 8 May and in my previous answer to Question 144296, we are carrying out a review of Tier 1 (General) cases. This includes a manual check of all refused applications since 1 January 2017. We will report the findings of the review to Parliament.