Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the capacity of his Department to publish independent chief inspector of border and immigration reports within the eight week timeframe.

Wherever possible, the Department will lay Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) reports before Parliament within 8 weeks of receipt, or as soon as possible thereafter.

It is important that the Department and Ministers give full consideration to the serious recommendations made in ICIBI reports. In some circumstances, this will take longer than 8 weeks due to the complexity or importance of the recommendations.

In order to provide full transparency, reports will only be laid in Parliament when both Houses are sitting. This will sometimes necessitate a longer timeframe between submission of the report and publication.