{"id":121617,"date":"2023-11-29T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=121617"},"modified":"2023-11-29T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T11:50:37","slug":"moment-lee-anderson-proves-home-office-boss-doesnt-have-clue-about-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/moment-lee-anderson-proves-home-office-boss-doesnt-have-clue-about-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Moment Lee Anderson proves Home Office boss \u2018doesn\u2019t have clue\u2019 about migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Lee Anderson says Home Office chiefs &#8216;haven&#8217;t got a clue&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>The Home Office\u2019s most senior Mandarin was left speechless at a probing by the Home Affairs Select Committee this morning when asked a simple question about deportations.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Anderson skewered the civil service chief, and his second in command, when demanding to know how many small boat migrants who have had their asylum claims rejected have been deported.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Anderson demanded to know, excluding foreign offenders and Albanians: \u201cHow many people travelling on small boats and have been refused asylum have been sent to a third country, or back to their own country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He began by requesting figures from the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Interim second permanent secretary Simon Ridley took a long pause, eyes skyward, while trying to think of a figure, before muttering: &#8220;I don\u2019t think we have those\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <strong> READ MORE: <\/strong> <strong>EU country has cut migrant numbers in half in just a month after simple move<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/139\/590x\/secondary\/5091084.jpg?r=1701257153894\"><\/p>\n<p>Permanent secretary Sir Matthew Rycroft eventually cut in saying he would \u201cwrite to the committee with those figures, Mr Anderson\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>A shocked Mr Anderson turned to the committee chair and said: \u201cI think that\u2019s staggering, that\u2019s actually staggering!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He tried again, asking for figures from the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The confused pair of mandarins once again sat silently before Simon Ridley said: \u201cI don\u2019t have a figure for non-Albanian, non-FNOs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Committee chair Diana Johnson suggested the civil servants\u2019 advisers sitting behind them might be able to help, with Mr Ridley turning to confer.<\/p>\n<p>An exasperated Dame Diana asked: \u201cDo you have any figures about anything?\u201d, shaking her head and adding, \u201cNo?\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <strong> Don&#8217;t miss&#8230; 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Why is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sir Matthew appeared gobsmacked, repeating that Mr Ridley was \u201clooking for the numbers and we will send them to you\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Anderson gave up waiting for any details from the duo.<\/p>\n<p>Following the showdown, Mr Anderson told the Express: \u201cI am disappointed that senior civil servants do not have basic figures in front of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/politics\/1840322\/Lee-Anderon-Home-Office-civil-servants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lee Anderson says Home Office chiefs &#8216;haven&#8217;t got a clue&#8217; The Home Office\u2019s most senior Mandarin was left speechless at a probing by the Home <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/moment-lee-anderson-proves-home-office-boss-doesnt-have-clue-about-migrants\/\" title=\"Moment Lee Anderson proves Home Office boss \u2018doesn\u2019t have clue\u2019 about migrants\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moment Lee Anderson proves Home Office boss \u2018doesn\u2019t have clue\u2019 about migrants - yourclomid.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/politics\/moment-lee-anderson-proves-home-office-boss-doesnt-have-clue-about-migrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moment Lee Anderson proves Home Office boss \u2018doesn\u2019t have clue\u2019 about migrants - yourclomid.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lee Anderson says Home Office chiefs &#8216;haven&#8217;t got a clue&#8217; 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