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Agency under fire over 'lost' immigrants

MPs lambast troubled UK Border Agency for continued poor performance.

MPs have lambasted the troubled UK Border Agency for continued poor performance, claiming it has ‘dumped' files covering 124,000 asylum and immigration applicants it has lost touch with – equivalent to a city the size of Cambridge.

In a withering assessment of the UKBA's work between April and July this year – before new chief executive, Rob Whiteman, was recruited from the Improvement and Development Agency – Keith Vaz, chair of the home affairs committee, said the agency ‘is still not providing the efficient, effective service that Parliament expects'.

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