{"value":{"id":1179366,"askingMemberId":163,"askingMember":null,"house":"Commons","memberHasInterest":false,"dateTabled":"2020-02-21T00:00:00","dateForAnswer":"2020-02-26T00:00:00","uin":"18486","questionText":"To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how much her Department has spent from the public purse on  defending (a) appeals and (b) judicial reviews in cases where applicants were refused leave to remain on grounds of cheating in a Toeic English language test.","answeringBodyId":1,"answeringBodyName":"Home Office","isWithdrawn":false,"isNamedDay":true,"groupedQuestions":[],"answerIsHolding":false,"answerIsCorrection":false,"answeringMemberId":4451,"answeringMember":null,"correctingMemberId":null,"correctingMember":null,"dateAnswered":"2020-02-26T00:00:00","answerText":"<p>The exact information requested is not held centrally by the Home Office in a way that allows us to answer this question without manually checking individual case records which could only be undertaken at disproportionate cost.</p><p>The Home Office took commercial action against the provider which resulted in them agreeing, after negotiations, to pay a contribution of £1.6 million towards the Home Office’s costs incurred as a result of this issue.</p>","originalAnswerText":"","comparableAnswerText":"","dateAnswerCorrected":null,"dateHoldingAnswer":null,"attachmentCount":0,"heading":"Migrants: English Language","attachments":[],"groupedQuestionsDates":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Questions/1179366","method":"GET"}]}