South Norfolk MP Richard Bacon has called on the Home Office to ‘get a grip’, as a new report finds that inadequate Home Office data on anti-social behaviour is yet another example of the Department’s failure to handle information properly.
Mr Bacon said today: “The Home Office’s
failure to provide adequate data on anti-social behaviour is just
the latest example of its inability to handle information properly.
Other cases have included foreign prisoners being released instead
of deported, and the failure to update criminal records with details of
serious crimes committed by Britons abroad”.
“Without reliable management information the
Home Office can neither manage its business properly nor account for
its stewardship. They need to get a grip”.
Mr Bacon was speaking as the Commons public accounts committee published its report into tackling anti-social behaviour. Despite recognising the importance of accurate data, the Home Office provided data to the National Audit Office on perceptions of anti-social behaviour which the Home Office later admitted was incorrect. The report finds that this is the latest of several recent examples of poor quality information systems and data at the Home Office.
Inaccurate data was also provided to the Public Accounts Committee in 2005 and 2006 on the release of foreign national prisoners released from custody without consideration for deportation. The Home Office had also not arranged for the Police National Computer to be updated for notifications of convictions for crimes committed abroad by UK citizens, allowing a backlog of some 27,500 cases to build up until updating commenced in 2006.
24 July 2007
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