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'.
