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Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 House of Commons Home Affairs Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 First Report of Session 2012–13 Report, together with formal minutes Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 23 May 2012 HC 144 Published on 12 June 2012 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 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) 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), Richard Benwell (Second Clerk), Ruth Davis (Committee Specialist), Eleanor Scarnell (Inquiry Manager), Andy Boyd (Senior 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]. Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 1 Contents Report Page Introduction 3 First Report, Immigration Cap (HC 361) 11 Second Report, Police and Crime Commissioners (HC 511) 26 Third Report, Firearms Control (HC 447) 33 Fourth Report, The work of the UK Border Agency (HC 587) 52 Fifth Report, Police use of Tasers (HC 646) 66 Sixth Report, Police Finances (HC 695) 69 Seventh Report, Student Visas (HC 773) 77 Eight Report, Forced Marriage (HC 880) 90 Ninth Report, The Work of the UK Border Agency (HC 929) 103 Tenth Report, Home Office— Implications for the Justice and Home Affairs area of the accession of Turkey to the European Union (HC 789) 125 Eleventh Report, Student Visas-follow up (HC 1445) 145 Twelfth Report, Home Office—Work of the Permanent Secretary (HC 928) 152 Thirteenth Report, Unauthorised tapping into or hacking of mobile communications (HC 907) 154 Fourteenth Report, New Landscape of Policing (HC 939) 174 Fifteenth Report, The work of the UK Border Agency (April-July 2011) (HC 1497) 226 Sixteenth Report, Policing Large Scale Disorder (HC 1456-I) 250 Seventeenth Report, UK Border Controls (HC 1647) 268 Eighteenth Report, Rules governing enforced removals from the UK (HC 563) 272 Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 3 Introduction 1. In order to monitor the effectiveness of its Report, the Home Affairs Committee maintains a colour-coded grid of its recommendations. Recommendations are coded green if, in our view, the Government has accepted them; red if they have been rejected; and yellow if they have been partially accepted, or if the Government has undertaken to give them further consideration. 2. The grid for the reports of 2010–12 to which a response has so far been received is published as an Annex to this Report. The Committee intends to repeat this exercise after the end of every Session for the remainder of this Parliament. 3. This is not a simple box-ticking exercise. The Committee will use the grid to inform its choice of inquiries over the course of the Parliament, returning to earlier recommendations where it appears that there may be some merit in doing so, but avoiding duplication of earlier work where it appears unlikely to prove beneficial. 4. The Committee has had several major successes over the course of the Session, for example: a) On immigration, the introduction of exit checks;1 the exclusion of short-term, intra- company transfers from the immigration cap;2 greater focus in the UK Border Agency on removing foreign national prisoners at the end of their sentences;3 changes to the student visa system to protect the UK knowledge economy;4 better monitoring of enforced removals;5 and improved internal communications processes within the UK Border Agency.6 b) On policing, the publication of information that will enable the public to assess the performance of elected Police and Crime Commissioners;7 the introduction of the Policing Protocol to set out the relationship between Commissioners and Chief Constables;8 greater clarity about the legal framework for the supply of tasers and other weapons to the police;9 the adoption by the Government of a clear definition of “front- line” policing;10 and greater emphasis on improving the quality and procurement of police information technology.11 1 p 10 2 p 18 3 p 51 4 pp 76ff 5 p 277 6 p 267ff 7 p 25ff 8 pp 27–28 9 pp 65–67 10 p 68 11 p 72 4 Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 c) On crime, tougher restrictions on imitation firearms and greater protection against forced marriage.12 The Committee was also instrumental in exposing the scale of the phone-hacking scandal and the relationship between certain sections of the media and the police.13 5. However, this grid of recommendations does not reflect the entirety of the Committee’s work. As well as these major, policy-based inquiries, we have continued to keep the wider work of the Home Office under review by holding regular, general evidence sessions with the Home Secretary.14 The Committee also holds regular sessions with the Permanent Secretary, focusing primarily on expenditure and administration of the Department.15 The Committee has also held several one-off evidence sessions on the work of Home Office agencies: the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre,16 the newly- established National Crime Agency,17 the Equality and Human Rights Commission,18 the Home Office’s Chief Scientific Adviser,19 the National Policing Improvement Agency,20 and Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary.21 The Committee has also held several one-off sessions on the national functions of the Metropolitan Police Service.22 6. The impact of our current inquiries, as well as those inquiries from 2010–12 which have yet to receive a response, will be covered in our next effectiveness report, which we expect to publish in May or June 2013. 12 pp 32ff; pp 89ff 13 p 153ff 1414 December 2010 (HC 647), 5 July 2011 (HC 1372), 8 November 2011 (HC 1631), and 24 April 2012 (HC 1939) 15 23 November 2010 (on the effect of the CSR on the Home Office) (HC 626), 27 June 2011 (on managing cuts) (HC 928), and 17 January 2012 (HC 1751) 16 HC 510 (2010–12) 17 HC 1553 (2010–12) 18 HC 732 (2010–12) 19 HC 694 (2010–12) 20 HC 588 (2010–12) 21 HC 548 (2010–12) 22 Counter terrorism (HC 1775), policing major demonstrations in London (HC 917), undercover operations at the G20 protests (HC 772) , and Specialist Operations (HC 441). Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 5 Formal Minutes Wednesday 23 May 2012 Members present: Keith Vaz, in the Chair Mr James Clappison Dr Julian Huppert Michael Ellis Alun Michael Lorraine Fullbrook Mr David Winnick Draft Report (Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12), proposed by the Chair, brought up and read. Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph. Paragraphs 1 to 6 read and agreed to. Annex agreed to. Resolved, That the Report be the First Report of the Committee to the House. Ordered, That the Chair make the Report to the House. Ordered, That embargoed copies of the Report be made available, in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 134. [Adjourned till Tuesday 12 June 2012 at 10.40 am 6 Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 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 2012–13 First Report Effectiveness of the Committee in 2010–12 HC 144 Second Report Work of the Permanent Secretary (April–December HC 145 2011) 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 Fifteenth Report The work of the UK Border Agency (April-July
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