Sir Humphrey Lives On!

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2183874,00.html

 

In highly damaging evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, Home Office officials were forced to admit that they had no idea how many people had been told to leave the country or how many were not complying with reporting requirements.

 

No officials in the Home Office are to lose their jobs over 1,023 foreign prisoners who have been released without being considered for deportation. Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, told the Public Administration Committee that it was not clear that any civil servants were “directly accountable”.

 

WHAT THE REMOVAL MEN DID NOT KNOW

 

‘How many people are illegally in the UK?’

‘I haven’t the faintest idea.’

 

‘How many people are not complying with reporting requirements?’

‘I cannot give you those details. I do apologise.’

 

‘Roughly, how many comply with reporting requirements?’

‘I can’t answer that question in the direct way you ask it.’

 

‘How many people have been removed when all their appeal processes have been exhausted?’

‘We don’t track individual cases.’