UK BORDER AGENCY
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether there are UK Border Agency staff members who are caseworkers for individual universities involved in sponsor compliance. [123516]
Mr Harper, Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office: The UK Border Agency does not assign caseworkers to individual universities but it does assign a named account manager who assists with the university's interactions with the UK Border Agency.
Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many UK Border Agency staff are involved in monitoring sponsor compliance for education institutions. [123517]
Mr Harper, Minister of State (Immigration), Home Office: There are approximately 140 staff directly involved in monitoring sponsor compliance.
Compliance officers monitor all sponsors for tiers 2, 4 and 5 of the points based system; as such the UK Border Agency cannot give a figure for education institution monitoring only.