To ask Her Majesty's Government what lessons have been drawn from the conviction and sentence to 15 years imprisonment in April of Shamsu Iqbal an official in the immigration department of the Home Office for falsifying the immigration records; and what steps have been taken to improve the recruitment procedures of the Home Office.
Answered on
1 June 2018
New measures were put in place following the arrest of Mr Iqbal to prevent further abuse. This included improvements to the change of address and subject access request processes. Further improvements will be made as part of the implementation of a new immigration computer system.
The Home Office conducts pre-appointment checks for all externally recruited staff in line with the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard which is available on the GOV.UK website.