The Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons has recently published its report, The work of the Immigration Directorates (January-June 2014). This is part of an ongoing inquiry into all aspects of the Home Office’s immigration work.
Exit Checks
Single Immigration Target
The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Foreign national prisoners
Rt. Hon Keith Vaz MP, Chairman of the Committee said:
"Successive governments have spent millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on the botched e-borders programme. Everyone who enters and leaves Britain must be counted in and out. Transport companies have long expressed serious doubts about meeting the Government’s timetable for exit checks. Failure to reach full checks within the planned timeframe will give rise to the twin perils of increased security risks and illegal migration. It is incomprehensible that thousands of foreign nationals convicted of a criminal offence in the UK are either at large in the community or are not sent back to their own countries. The continued poor record keeping on these foreign national offenders is inexcusable given both the danger these people pose to the public and the huge cost to the taxpayer. Following John Vine’s recent report, it was estimated that the number of missing migrants in the UK had reached 89,000. Added to the backlog of cases currently being dealt with at the Home Office, which is 304,222, this brings the total number of unresolved immigration cases to 393,222, which is more than the population of Cardiff. In addition to this is the Government’s missed immigration target. Our immigration system has left A&E and has entered intensive care."
"Successive governments have spent millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on the botched e-borders programme. Everyone who enters and leaves Britain must be counted in and out. Transport companies have long expressed serious doubts about meeting the Government’s timetable for exit checks. Failure to reach full checks within the planned timeframe will give rise to the twin perils of increased security risks and illegal migration.
It is incomprehensible that thousands of foreign nationals convicted of a criminal offence in the UK are either at large in the community or are not sent back to their own countries. The continued poor record keeping on these foreign national offenders is inexcusable given both the danger these people pose to the public and the huge cost to the taxpayer.
Following John Vine’s recent report, it was estimated that the number of missing migrants in the UK had reached 89,000. Added to the backlog of cases currently being dealt with at the Home Office, which is 304,222, this brings the total number of unresolved immigration cases to 393,222, which is more than the population of Cardiff. In addition to this is the Government’s missed immigration target. Our immigration system has left A&E and has entered intensive care."