The UK Border Agency (UKBA) has been criticised for supplying six years worth of inaccurate data by the Home Affairs Committee.

Invalid data included the size of the immigration asylum backlog and the measures that were being employed to trace immigrants that had lost contact.

The Home Affairs Committee reported that the failure to trace immigrants who had lapsed in contact with the UKBA, had resulted in the mistaken belief that such individuals had left the UK, when in fact many are still believed to be in the country.

The Home Affairs Committee criticised Lin Homer, the then head of the UKBA: “Lin Homer, who was in charge of the Agency for much of the period in question, has repeatedly misled the Committee over the size of the asylum backlog and still refuses to take responsibility for her failings”.

Ms Homer said that the criticisms related to events and failings that occurred long after she left the UKBA 18 months ago.

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