Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 26 October 2009.
Phil Woolas
Minister of State (the North West), Home Office, Minister of State (the North West), HM Treasury, Minister of State (the North West), Regional Affairs
2:30,
26 October 2009
The hon. Gentleman calls for the Government to manage the migration system, but he then opposes the very measures that we have introduced- such as the comprehensive electronic borders-to do so. The cases that he has mentioned-cases, not people-are being got through apace. As I have said, the record of this Government in deciding those cases shows that 60 per cent. are decided in six months, as opposed to 22 months in 1997. Who has got their priorities right?
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John Catley
Posted on 27 Oct 2009 1:15 pm (Report this annotation)
At last Mr Woolas admits that to him he deals with CASES not PEOPLE. I find his attitude disgusting. He speaks of an improvement from 22 months to six months. Then why is it that a human being that I know is still fighting his department five and a half years from the date that asylum was claimed. That is five and a half years of stagnation, not able to work, living on handouts and waiting for the knock on the door which starts the forced, often violent, removal to certain death.
We should treat "foreign" Scottish MP's in the same way, hopefully including months of detention in an IRC before their violent removal - roll on home rule for Scotland!