Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 11 February 2013.
Meg Hillier
Labour, Hackney South and Shoreditch
2:30,
11 February 2013
Further to the comments of my hon. Friend Fiona Mactaggart, I have many constituents who have submitted an in-time application and have not even received an acknowledgement from the UK Border Agency. When my office chases up some months later, it turns out that they have not even been input into the UKBA computer system. Perhaps the Home Secretary can tell us whether this is an attempt by the Home Office to massage figures about the number of applicants and the speed with which it is dealing with them.