Yvette Cooper MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to a report by the Public Accounts Committee, said:

“This report lays bare how David Cameron’s Government is presiding over one failure after another in our immigration system.

“Theresa May was very quick to blame the UKBA, but since she took direct control of the border force and immigration system, we have seen backlogs increase sharply and the admission that the Home Office have no idea how many of the 175,000 failed asylum seekers are still here or where 50,000 failed asylum seekers even are.

“However the failures don’t stop there. David Cameron and Theresa May have failed to deliver on her promise to introduce exit checks, to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands, has cost the taxpayer £1billion on failed IT projects and as the report says introduced no processes to rectify these and other failings.”

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