Committee to take evidence on Home Office capacity to deliver post-Brexit immigration services

Committee to take evidence on Home Office capacity to deliver post-Brexit immigration services

Wednesday 29 November 2017

Venue: Committee Room 16, Palace of Westminster

This is the third session in the Committee’s inquiry examining the Home Office’s delivery of immigration services post-Brexit. The issues this session are likely to cover include:

• ·         Role of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and consideration of his recent work
• ·         Home Office capacity to register EU nationals already in the UK
  • ·         Challenge of bringing within the immigration rules EU nationals who arrive post-Brexit
• ·         Current Home Office processing of visa and asylum applications
• ·         Quality of decision-making
  • ·         Effectiveness of immigration enforcement

Witnesses

At 9.30 am

• ·         David Bolt, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

At 10.15 am

• ·         Lucy Moreton, General Secretary, Immigration Service Union
• ·         Adrian Berry QC, Chair, Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

At 10.45 am

• ·         Helen Kenny, National Officer, FDA
• ·         Mike Jones, Group Secretary, Home Office group, Public and Commercial Services Union