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UK Border Agency 'not good enough' and being scrapped
The UK Border Agency is to be abolished with its work returning to the Home Office, Theresa May has announced.
The home secretary told MPs "its performance was not good enough".
The UK Border Agency was formed in 2008 as an arms-length agency of the Home Office but Mrs May said this had led to a "secretive culture".
It will now be split into parts focusing on the visa system and on immigration law enforcement. Both parts will report directly to ministers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21941395
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From Transpondia's FB Page...
News flash!
About 5 years ago there was a Home Secretary called John Reid. During his tenure, he went to the national media and announced that the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) was 'unfit for purpose' and needed to be a separate executive agency of the UK government.
Bear in mind that the BIA had been created out of the ashes of the former Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) a scant 14 months earlier. At that time, we saw the BIA get new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, and new job titles.
So they renamed the BIA to the UK Border Agency and made it a stand-alone executive agency. That was in 2008 and once again we saw new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, new job titles, new regional offices, and for the very first time, new uniforms on front-line personnel.
Fast forward to last year when the Home Secretary went to the national media and announced that UKBA didn't work, and it should be split into two parts: the Border Force and the Border Agency. And so off they went and what did the Border Force get? You guessed it: new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, new job titles, and new uniforms.
That brings us to today. Earlier today the Home Secretary stood before Parliament and announced that UKBA was 'unfit for purpose'. The cure is to integrate UKBA into the Home Office, and presumably new stationery, new business cards, new job titles, and new uniforms. The press release indicated that we'll get further details after the Easter Holiday.
That's a full circle, peeps. All 360 degrees of it.
There's a nagging question at the bottom of this. How come it's always *people* in UKBA's backlog while new stationery, new business cards, new job titles, web sites and the like are in the front of the queue?
About 5 years ago there was a Home Secretary called John Reid. During his tenure, he went to the national media and announced that the Border and Immigration Agency (BIA) was 'unfit for purpose' and needed to be a separate executive agency of the UK government.
Bear in mind that the BIA had been created out of the ashes of the former Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) a scant 14 months earlier. At that time, we saw the BIA get new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, and new job titles.
So they renamed the BIA to the UK Border Agency and made it a stand-alone executive agency. That was in 2008 and once again we saw new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, new job titles, new regional offices, and for the very first time, new uniforms on front-line personnel.
Fast forward to last year when the Home Secretary went to the national media and announced that UKBA didn't work, and it should be split into two parts: the Border Force and the Border Agency. And so off they went and what did the Border Force get? You guessed it: new stationery, a new web site, new business cards, new job titles, and new uniforms.
That brings us to today. Earlier today the Home Secretary stood before Parliament and announced that UKBA was 'unfit for purpose'. The cure is to integrate UKBA into the Home Office, and presumably new stationery, new business cards, new job titles, and new uniforms. The press release indicated that we'll get further details after the Easter Holiday.
That's a full circle, peeps. All 360 degrees of it.
There's a nagging question at the bottom of this. How come it's always *people* in UKBA's backlog while new stationery, new business cards, new job titles, web sites and the like are in the front of the queue?
