The UK Border Agency (UKBA) was created by the Labour Home Secretary John Reid, who said that the immigration department was “not fit for purpose”, in 2008 as an separate agency of the Home Office but Mrs May said this had led to a “secretive culture”.
The UKBA will now be split for the second in just over a year, time into parts focusing on the visa system and on immigration law enforcement, with both sections reporting directly to ministers.
In 2012 May ruled that the UK Border Force – responsible for day-to-day operations – would stop being part of the agency and become a separate law-enforcement body.
She told Parliament: “Performance of what remains of UKBA is still not good enough. The Agency struggles with the volume of its casework, which has led to historical backlogs running into the hundreds of thousands.
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