Home Office ‘clueless about how many illegal migrants are living in the UK’

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THE Home Office does not know how many illegal migrants live in the UK, an MPs’ report says.

The Commons Public Accounts Committee said the department is also clueless as to how many people come here legally but do not renew visas.

The Home Office doesn’t know how many illegal migrants are living in the UK, according to a damning report

And the report accused it of basing immigration policies on “anecdote, assumption and prejudice” instead of evidence.

Chairman Meg Hillier said: “The Home Office has frighteningly little grasp of the impact of its activities in managing immigration.

“It shows no inclination to learn from its numerous mistakes across a swathe of immigration activities – even when it fully accepts that it has made serious errors.

“It accepts the wreckage that its ignorance and the culture it has fostered caused in the Windrush scandal – but the evidence we saw shows too little intent to change, and inspires no confidence that the next such scandal isn’t right around the corner.”

Despite “years of public and political debate and concern”, the department still does not know the size of the illegal population in the UK, the report said.

Migration Watch UK chairman Alp Mehmet said he welcomed the “scathing” report.

Mr Mehmet added: “It is in everyone’s interests that immigration decisions are based on full and accurate evidence. Clearly, the Committee does not think this is happening.”

Meg Hillier says the department has ‘no inclination to learn from its numerous mistakes’

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