Recommendation 8

We asked the Department about the financial impact of providing public services to people who should not be receiving them. It could not provide a figure for this.13 We heard that the Department had no data on the harm suffered by people who were victims of organised immigration crime or the distinction between those victims and other immigration offenders.14 We asked when the Department would have meaningful and reliable indicators of the scale of harm in its four categories. The Department claimed it can measure the amount of harm that it prevents, for example by removing a foreign national offender, but acknowledged that it would be a long time before it could measure the total harm that arises from immigration crime.15 6 Qq 38–39, 42–43, 64 7 Q 46 8 Q 35 9 Qq 45, 46 10 Q 33 11 Q 40 12 Qq 33, 40; C&AG’s Report, para 19 13 Q 34 14 Q 36 15 Q 43 Immigration enforcement 11 2 Understanding the business and setting priorities Using information to manage the business effectively