PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Migrants: Bank Services (23 April 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many notifications her Department's secure portal has received of bank current accounts which match immigration checks; how many of those notifications resulted in enforcement action by her Department; how many of those notifications included information about regular payments to the account; and what were the nationalities of the account holders.

Asked by:
Jonathan Reynolds (Labour)

The 2016 Act banking measures came into force on 30 October; however, banks and building societies had until 31 March 2018 to conduct their initial checks on all personal current accounts against Home Office disqualified persons data.

Operation of these measures is in the early stages and it is too soon to provide the information requested.

Answered by:
Caroline Nokes (Conservative)
26 April 2018