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The Work of the UK Border Agency (April–July 2011) House of Commons Home Affairs Committee The work of the UK Border Agency (April–July 2011) Fifteenth Report of Session 2010–12 Volume II Oral and written evidence Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 1 November 2011 HC 1497-II Published on 7 November 2011 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £30.00 The Home Affairs Committee The Home Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies. Current membership Rt Hon Keith Vaz MP (Labour, Leicester East) (Chair) Nicola Blackwood MP (Conservative, Oxford West and Abingdon) James Clappison MP (Conservative, Hertsmere) Michael Ellis MP (Conservative, Northampton North) Lorraine Fullbrook MP (Conservative, South Ribble) Dr Julian Huppert MP (Liberal Democrat, Cambridge) Steve McCabe MP (Labour, Birmingham Selly Oak) Rt Hon Alun Michael MP (Labour & Co-operative, Cardiff South and Penarth) Bridget Phillipson MP (Labour, Houghton and Sunderland South) Mark Reckless MP (Conservative, Rochester and Strood) Mr David Winnick MP (Labour, Walsall North) The following members were also members of the committee during the parliament. Mr Aidan Burley MP (Conservative, Cannock Chase) Mary Macleod MP (Conservative, Brentford and Isleworth) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publication The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/homeaffairscom. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Tom Healey (Clerk), Joanna Dodd (Second Clerk), Sarah Petit (Committee Specialist), Eleanor Scarnell (Inquiry Manager), Darren Hackett (Senior Committee Assistant), Sheryl Dinsdale (Committee Assistant), Victoria Butt (Committee Assistant), John Graddon (Committee Support Officer) and Alex Paterson (Select Committee Media Officer). Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Home Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 7 Millbank, London SW1P 3JA. The telephone number for general enquiries is 020 7219 3276; the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. Witnesses Tuesday 13 September 2011 Jonathan Sedgwick, Acting Chief Executive, UK Border Agency Ev 1 List of printed written evidence 1 Correspondence from UK Border Agency to the Chair of the Committee Ev 12, 15, 409, 418 2 Correspondence from UK Border Agency to David Winnick MP Ev 13 3 Correspondence from UK Border Agency to Michael Ellis MP Ev 13 4 Correspondence from UK Border Agency to Dr Julian Huppert MP Ev 13 5 Correspondence from UK Border Agency to Rt Hon Alun Michael MP Ev 14 6 Correspondence from the Minister for Immigration, Home Office Ev 14 7 Statistics from House of Commons Library Ev 405 8 Positive Action for Refugees and Asylum Seekers Ev 409 9 Correspondence from Home Secretary, Home Office Ev 418 List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament The reference number of the Government’s response to each Report is printed in brackets after the HC printing number. Session 2010–12 First Report Immigration Cap HC 361 Second Report Policing: Police and Crime Commissioners HC 511 Third Report Firearms Control HC 447 Fourth Report The work of the UK Border Agency HC 587 Fifth Report Police use of Tasers HC 646 Sixth Report Police Finances HC 695 Seventh Report Student Visas HC 773 Eighth Report Forced marriage HC 880 Ninth Report The work of the UK Border Agency (November 2010- HC 929 March 2011) Tenth Report Implications for the Justice and Home Affairs area of HC 789 the accession of Turkey to the European Union Eleventh Report Student Visas – follow up HC 1445 Twelfth Report Home Office – Work of the Permanent Secretary HC 928 Thirteenth Report Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile HC 907 communications Fourteenth Report New Landscape of Policing HC 939 cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [SO] Processed: [03-11-2011 17:21] Job: 015444 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/015444/015444_o001_MP 110913 UKBA corrected.xml Home Affairs Committee: Evidence Ev 1 Oral evidence Taken before the Home Affairs Committee on Tuesday 13 September 2011 Members present: Keith Vaz (Chair) Nicola Blackwood Alun Michael Michael Ellis Bridget Phillipson Lorraine Fullbrook Mark Reckless Dr Julian Huppert Mr David Winnick Steve McCabe ________________ Examination of Witness Witness: Jonathan Sedgwick, Acting Chief Executive, UK Border Agency, gave evidence. Q1 Chair: Mr Sedgwick, good morning. Thank you reports for Parliament and therefore monitor your very much for coming. I am sorry we are a little bit work, okay? late, but we are most grateful to you for coming in, Jonathan Sedgwick: We very much want to support and I think you have been away on annual leave and and enable you to scrutinise us in that way. you have come straight back. Jonathan Sedgwick: I have. Q3 Chair: Excellent. An excellent example is your Chair: We are most grateful. Can I just begin by just last but one letter to us, which was a huge explaining the way in which the Committee wishes to improvement on Lin Homer’s letter, which we found scrutinise the work of the UKBA? As you know, we pretty indigestible; your last letter, before the one you produce a report three times a year, based on the last have just sent us, the one you sent us in March, had four months of the UKBA’s work, hence my letter to graphs, pie charts and answers to specific questions. you. Thank you for the additional information That is the way we like it. Thank you. provided in your last letter. The reason why I wrote Can I start with a question from your annual report, to you again was because we don’t believe it is helpful and the fact that you spent £7 million writing off bad when we ask questions of fact of the head of the UK debts, including £50,000 where the agency had made Border Agency when we are referred to websites. It administrative errors? Why have you written off such is equivalent to referring the Committee to textbooks. a huge amount of money? An example of how to answer questions of this Jonathan Sedgwick: The debts fall into a number of Committee is the evidence of the Home Secretary last different categories, but essentially we had to write off Thursday, when Mr Ellis asked her a specific question a number of debts arising from the imposition of civil about foreign national prisoners and got specific penalties. As you know, the civil penalty regime for answers. So in future, when we write to you, we illegal working was a new regime that we introduced would like those specific answers rather than a around three years ago, and in the early stages of reference to a website. Is that clear? introducing those penalties, we were not good enough Jonathan Sedgwick: Of course. at collecting the debt. We have now very much turned Chair: Thank you. that picture around. We are much better at collecting Jonathan Sedgwick: I should just say that our debt. We probably impose slightly fewer penalties. We intention was very much to provide more and better have a much better record of collecting them, and the information, and clearly we did not get the kind of Minister is very much ensuring that we take more process for that quite right. I understand you are steps towards prosecuting people who are repeat meeting Helen Ghosh shortly, just to discuss precisely offenders, for example. So I think we are now in a how we will finalise and present information to the much better position. The cash collection has gone up Committee. year-on-year, £6.9 million in 2010–11. Q2 Chair: There is no need to have a private meeting Q4 Chair: In terms of percentage—this is why a with her about this. I made it very clear: the letter with lots of answers would have been more Committee has a longstanding arrangement that the helpful—what percentage of the penalties are you head of the UK Border Agency answers our questions. collecting? We have given you the topics and that is the way we Jonathan Sedgwick: I don’t have that precise figure, want it. It is helpful to have the letter from the but it will be rising to be above 50%, but I can provide Minister about how he thinks we should do it but, at that information to you. the end of the day, this is Parliament’s call and this is Chair: So one in two of the penalties we impose, we the best way in which we feel we can assist the public do not collect? and Parliament. If we get specific answers to the Jonathan Sedgwick: We may be in the process of questions that we put forward, and provided we fit collecting those. into that time scale, we will be able to produce timely Chair: But we just have not collected them? cobber Pack: U PL: COE1 [E] Processed: [03-11-2011 17:21] Job: 015444 Unit: PG01 Source: /MILES/PKU/INPUT/015444/015444_o001_MP 110913 UKBA corrected.xml Ev 2 Home Affairs Committee: Evidence 13 September 2011 Jonathan Sedgwick Jonathan Sedgwick: But we may not have collected new that was not considered at the time, so I think them all yet. that will lead to a big improvement in our numbers. Q5 Chair: In respect of your report as well, £14.2 Q9 Mark Reckless: Is there any danger that that million was paid on compensation cases last year; might be overturned through other legal action, be it £8.5 million of that £14.2 million went on legal fees.
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