Sarah Teather – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sarah Teather on 2014-06-26.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, Inspection of the UK Border Agency’s handling of legacy asylum and migration cases, published in November 2012, what steps have been taken in response to recommendation 1 of that report.

Karen Bradley

The Older Live Cases Unit routinely and regularly matches asylum and migration
legacy cases against the Police National Computer (PNC) and Warnings Index (WI)
records, until the point at which cases are finally concluded. The checks are
undertaken on a rolling three monthly basis. Results are recorded on a bespoke
database which informs the decision making process within the Older Live Cases
Unit.

Compliance with the recommendation was acknowledged by the Independent Chief
Inspector of Borders and Immigration in his report, An investigation into the
progress made on legacy asylum and migration cases January – March 2013,
published in June 2013, where he stated, "security checks had been completed
in each of the cases we sampled (144), indicating that the Agency had
implemented our earlier recommendation to routinely and regularly
match legacy cases against the PNC and WI until finally concluded."