Immigration and Nationality Directorate

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 15 May 2006.

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Photo of Tony McNulty Tony McNulty Minister of State (Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality), Home Office 2:30, 15 May 2006

I do not believe that that is the case. I freely accept that there has been a concentration on the tipping point target, not least as a result of pressure from the Opposition, the public and others, but it is absolutely not the case that that is to the exclusion of everything else that IND does. I do not dispute the fact that its work is sensitive, or that it is undertaken by dedicated members of staff. It is not advisable to traduce them, and I caution him against what might be termed fatuous casual empiricism.