§ Mr. MaddenTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the reasons for the disparity between his letter of 7 March concerning Israr Ahmed—ref. GV100/20467 and A515109—that Israr Ahmed's application had been referred by the post in Islamabad to the Home Office on 22 November and the letter from the Immigration and Nationality Department of the Home Office, dated 9 March, informing the sponsor in the United Kingdom that Israr Ahmed's application had been refused by the entry clearance officer in Islamabad.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThe migration and visa correspondence unit's letter to the hon. Member dated 7 March said, correctly, that Mr., Israr Ahmed's application had been referred to the Home Office. The Home Office's subsequent letter to his sponsors, dated 9 March, said that the application was to be refused and that the ECO in Islamabad would so inform him. It did not say that the ECO had already done so. There was thus no discrepancy between the two.