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home Secretary Shabana Mehmood said home office A secret damaging report on a government department is “not yet fit for purpose” after it was revealed.
Ms Mahmood promised radical changes Her department’s staff, structures and culture, stating the findings, reported by many timeswere “all very familiar”.
The report identified a catalog Home Office FailuresClaiming that it was surrounded by a “culture of defeatism” immigration and “the understanding that high failure rates are an unavoidable fact of life in the system”.
“The standoff between immigration enforcement and other parts of it.” immigration system The poor are complicit, as are the police and the criminal justice system”, the dossier said.
Written by a former Home Office Special Adviser nick timothyThe report, which is now a Tory MP, was kept secret by the department for more than two years recipient many times After legal challenge.
Too much time was wasted on identity politics and social issues, Mr Timothy wrote – such as “listening circles” during working hours in which civil servants discussed their feelings about social and political issues, including the policies they were responsible for implementing.
report says Home Office failures further increased crisis of small boats and left ministers unable to implement their policies.
many times The document describes how the immigration system “comprises many confusing and conflicting systems working for cross purposes” and that as a result “enforcement of immigration laws is poor and has become significantly worse in recent years”.
One of Mr Timothy’s findings reportedly stated: “There is a culture of defeat among officers and a feeling that high failure rates are an inevitable fact of life in the system.”
Mr Timothy reviewed the effectiveness of the Home Office in 2023.
Ms Mahmood said the findings showed the department had not learned any lessons since His predecessor Lord John Reed It was declared “not fit for purpose” about 20 years ago.
In a statement he said, “This report, written under the previous government, is devastating for those people.” who have faced the Home Office In recent years, the revelations that have followed are all too familiar.
“The Home Office is not yet fit for purpose, and has been set up for failure. As this report shows, the previous Conservative government knew this, but failed to do anything about it.
“Things are changing now. I will work with the new Permanent Secretary to transform the Home Office so it works for this country.”
Independent The Home Office has been contacted for comment. in a statement to many timesIt highlighted that the report was conducted under the previous government.
It continued: “The Home Secretary and the Permanent Secretary are making significant changes to the Home Office to help the UK public secure our borders, make our roads safer and protect our national security.”