To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Home Office and Ministry of Justice news story entitled Government to build cases to prosecute rogue immigration lawyers published on 8 August 2023, whether any non-immigration lawyers are being monitored by her Department; and if she will make a statement.
Answered on
23 October 2023
The Home Office ensures that legal practitioners raising immigration matters have the correct regulatory credentials. If evidence exists that obligations have been breached, we may refer legal practitioners to regulators or law enforcement where criminality is evident.
It would not be appropriate to comment further as this is operationally sensitive and would undermine the Home Office’s ability to tackle the threat if this information regarding the actions of a small number of legal practitioners was put into the public domain.