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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 12 Jan 2021 2 recs Response linked
Published 11 Jan 2021 Response linked
Published 11 Nov 2020 Response linked
Published 8 Oct 2020 1 rec Response linked
Published 20 Jul 2020 Response linked
An inspection of Administrative Reviews (May – December 2019)
2020
Index response summary 4 accepted, 3 partially accepted
Published 20 May 2020 7 recs 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.