UK Border Agency to be scrapped - how much will that cost the taxpayer?

[goldstone]

UKBA was set up six years ago. I wonder how much of taxpayers money was spent on setting up the department and putting up all those nice shiny signs at airports and ports?

Now it's going to be scrapped and absorbed back into the Home Office, I wonder how much of taxpayers money will be spent dismantling the department and replacing all the UK Borders signs with some new signs.

Madness. Ministers spend money with absolutely no regard to the fact that it has originated from hard-working taxpayers.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

What is the reason for this?

 

[skipper734]

It's worse than that, the bint that presided over the debacle that was the UK Border Agency. Has been rewarded with the CEO job at Revenue and Customs.
She must have done a really good job as Permanent Secretary at the Dept. for Transport.

 

[clippedgull]

UKBA was set up six years ago. I wonder how much of taxpayers money was spent on setting up the department and putting up all those nice shiny signs at airports and ports?

Now it's going to be scrapped and absorbed back into the Home Office, I wonder how much of taxpayers money will be spent dismantling the department and replacing all the UK Borders signs with some new signs.

Madness. Ministers spend money with absolutely no regard to the fact that it has originated from hard-working taxpayers.

I guess the bedroom tax money will be offset against the splitting of the agency.

I see the cretin that oversaw the shambles that has led to a backlog of cases that will takes 20+ years to clear has been moved to become Head of HMRC at a nice cushy £180,000 per year. We are all in this together!! Really?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It's worse than that, the bint that presided over the debacle that was the UK Border Agency. Has been rewarded with the CEO job at Revenue and Customs.
She must have done a really good job as Permanent Secretary at the Dept. for Transport.

Over £350k a year for doing a poor job. Good work if you can get it

 

[GreersElbow]

Theresa May is brilliant, breaking up SOCA and forming the NCA (Same thing, different name). Now this...

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

No wonder we are in such a state when senior managers don't really have to prove what they have done, just breeze through a 'competence' based system.

Dot the right i's, cross the right t's and you're in. That is until she goes....with a hefty pay-off, no doubt.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

The only way to avoid this withdraw from parts of European law. Can't do that some may say,try it and watch the money pour into the U/K (Where it can decide it's rules) as much i was not a Maggie fan 'You can't buck the market' .

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Our laws,our borders.

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

25 years worth of unprocessed claims, no idea where 10s of thousands of failed incomers are and 100'000 unopened letters at the UKBA. What a fricking mess. Now the secretary of state wants to control it all from her office in Whitehall. We might as well just give up and declare open season.