£830m failed UK border system blamed on ‘lack of effective leadership’
According to reports from the BBC, the e-borders project was meant to collect and analyse data on everyone travelling to and from the UK before they arrive at ports and airports, however, UK Home Office has been criticized for failing to complete the scheme.
But the National Audit Office says checks remain "highly manual and inefficient", and IT systems outdated with the UK Public Accounts Committee saying the Home Office had a "miserable record of exorbitantly expensive digital programmes that fail to deliver".
Johnson's Gov't under fire for failures
With Boris de Pfeffel Johnson ‘aka ‘Boris’, currently at the helm of government, the Public Accounts Committee blamed a "lack of effective leadership, management and oversight" at the UK border department despite claims from the Home Office that the problems were "historical" and had been fixed.
But the committee warned in a parliamentary report that the department "continues to struggle with delivery of technology programmes at staggering cost to the taxpayer".
Border agents are still having to use out-of-date technology to decide who is allowed into the UK. Delays to the new Digital Services at the Border (DSAB) programme - meant to replace outdated systems including the failed e-borders scheme - have cost the taxpayer £173m so far, the committee said.
Johnson refusing CoI
The reports of poor management and failed spending comes as the UK Government has launched a January 2021 Commission of Inquiry into British Overseas Territory (OT), the Virgin Islands.
UK's embattled leader Johnson and his government, however, refused to submit to mid-2020 calls for a CoI into allegations of corruption and nepotism in the disastrous handling of the UK's COVID-19 crisis.
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19 Responses to “£830m failed UK border system blamed on ‘lack of effective leadership’”
uk is protecting 7000+ miles of borders..we are protecting. 300 miles ( thats a guess). uk has a population of 67 million we ha e a pop of 32,000 so per head we are spending more on ONE system of border protection costing 365000 per month than uk is spending on multiple systems.
for sure if its corrupt spending in UK is absolutly should be investigated and those brought to justice...just like here...
i just wanted to put the numbers i perspective.
Ask why why ....of either side and then stop ask sh** and figure it out .... about casting stones ...
Unlike the VI with its lack of responsibility and inadmissions about the obvious web of corruption on its soil.
Hence, UK has no choice but to exercise its sovereign role as it is inevitably its duty and responsibility .
You can't sit there and make comments like those. Go get the facts then blog you fool.