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ICIBI Inspection Reports

Tracking 384 recommendations across 77 inspections from the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration. 264 reports catalogued, 206 with Home Office responses. Source: gov.uk.

264 reports 384 recommendations 183 accepted 12 rejected 78% response rate

Inspection reports

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264 matching reports.

Published 20 Feb 2012 No response indexed
Published 19 Dec 2011 Response linked
Published 12 May 2011 Response linked
Published 17 Mar 2011 Response linked
Published 16 Feb 2011 Response linked
Published 16 Dec 2010 Response linked
Published 18 Nov 2010 Response linked

Recommendation responses

Acceptance, partial, rejection, pending

The Home Office accepts 62% of ICIBI recommendations (fully or in part). 3% are rejected outright. Of 264 inspection reports, 206 have received a published government response (78% response rate).

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ICIBI recommendation responses
ResponseRecommendations
Accepted183
Partially accepted57
Not accepted12
Pending132

Key insights

Patterns across the corpus
62% acceptance rate — of 384 scraped recommendations, 183 were accepted and 57 partially accepted. 12 were rejected outright.
78% of reports received responses — 206 of 264 inspection reports have published Home Office responses on gov.uk.
The Home Office must respond within 8 weeks — in practice, this target is frequently missed. In 2023-24, only 3 of 21 reports received timely responses.
3% of recommendations rejected — these represent areas where the Home Office explicitly disagrees with the inspector's findings.