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On
Tuesday 26th March 2013, a committee of MPs interviewed two senior
civil servants about the way the UK's immigration services will be
run in future. The interview came just minutes after the Home
Secretary, Theresa May, had made a surprise announcement that the UK
Border Agency, the body that deals with immigration and asylum in the
UK, was to be abolished.
The
Agency was founded by act of parliament in 2008. It was given Agency
status in an attempt to give it independence from political
interference but the effect of this independence, Mrs May said, was a
negative one. Mrs May said that the UKBA had, developed a 'secretive
and defensive culture' in part because it was an agency. The UKBA
will be abolished at the end of the financial year on April 5th and
its functions will be reincorporated into the Home Office.
By
chance, the Home Affairs Select Committee, which has oversight of the
running of Mrs May's department, was in session on the afternoon of
the 26th March, just minutes after Mrs May made her announcement. The
Committee was also due to interview Rob Whiteman, chief executive of
the UKBA that afternoon.
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