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The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q4 2015) inquiry

Closed Opened 19 May 2016 Closed 31 Oct 2016

Home Affairs Committee Inquiry on parliament.uk ↗

Inquiry scope (the committee's words)
The Home Affairs Committee report says the continued failure by the Home Office to remove the equivalent of a "small town" of Foreign National Offenders (FNOs) remaining in the UK's prisons and communities is undermining confidence in the immigration system, and in the UK's EU membership. Government Response Read the Government's response to the report on the work of the Immigration Directorates (Q4 2015) Read the Government's response to the report on the work of the Immigration Directorates (Q4 2015) (PDF 243 KB)

Where it stands

The inquiry is closed, opened 19 May 2016.

The committee has published 1 report, most recently 2nd Report - The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q4 2015) on 3 June 2016.

The government's response

Published 16 September 2016.

Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.

The Home Office responds to the Committee's conclusions mainly by explaining its approach and citing performance data, disagreeing with the Committee's characterisation of its handling of English language testing fraud and of the immigration backlog.

  • On service standards, it says in-country standards "have not changed since their implementation" and that, "Should UKVI change these standards it will notify the committee as it did in 2014."
  • On English language testing, it disagrees with parts of the Upper Tribunal ruling, says it was "very pleased to have been granted permission to appeal" to the Court of Appeal, and states it is "simply not correct" that it took ETS claims of fraud at face value.
  • On asylum data, it says it will include figures on the s.67 scheme, the Vulnerable Children's Resettlement Scheme and "take-charge" requests in the quarterly Immigration Statistics, the next release being 25 August 2016.
  • On the backlog, it says case numbers "will be significant, but this does not necessarily constitute a backlog", and that UKVI "does not have backlogs" in principal application types.

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19 May 2016 To committee Letter from the Chair to Christopher Graham, Information Commissioner, 18 May 2016
19 May 2016 To committee Letter from the Chair to FOI requests, Direct Communications Unit, Home Office, 7 April 2016