Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, which Minister in her Department took the decision to terminate the contract with Raytheon to build an immigration computer system; and if she will make a statement.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, my right hon. Friend the Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) made the decision to terminate the contract with Raytheon, which was negotiated and signed by the last Government.
I refer the hon. Member to the written ministerial statement made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr Green) on 22 July 2010, Official Report, columns 44-45WS, regarding the termination of the e-Borders contract.