Entry Clearances: Fraud

Grant Shapps
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if she will estimate the number of fraudulent applications for visas in each of the last four years; and if she will make a statement.

Mr. McCartney
At present statistics are not available on refusals of visa applications made on the grounds of fraud. Individual visa issuing posts may keep such records but it would incur disproportionate cost to contact each post requesting these details.