The Home Office can’t count, part 94
Posted on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Immigration
“Mistakes made by the British Home Office” is key element of our remit, and sometimes it’s just too easy. Take Jacqui Smith. (Please.) As The Guardian reports:
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, apologised for underestimating immigration figures after it was revealed that the increase in foreign nationals working in the UK since 1997 was 1.1 million, 300,000 more than previously stated.
Unfortunately, that still doesn’t agree with the Office of National Statistics, which puts the figure at 1.5 million.
What’s the solution? Leave running the system to the Home Office (and, in the case of the Home Office, we use the word “running” in its loosest sense), and pass the job of keeping all immigration statistics to the Office of National Statistics.
But if the Home Office is going to carry on looking after immigration figures, perhaps we can help them with this video:
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