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MPs say the UK Border Agency is still plagued by backlogs of unresolved immigration cases.
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The Home Affairs Committee said it had been supplied incorrect data by the agency for six years, and 'repeatedly misled' by former head Lin Homer.
Ms Homer, now the head of Revenue and Customs, said the accusation was unfair and untrue.
The report comes as the prime minister announces steps to restrict the rights of some immigrants to social housing.
In its latest report into the immigration agency, the committee said that for six years the UKBA had repeatedly supplied incorrect information about the size of the asylum backlog and measures supposedly being taken to trace others with whom officials had lost contact.
The MPs said the failure to trace these other migrants, whose cases were placed in a closed 'controlled archive', led officials to conclude that they were not in the UK when in fact tens of thousands of them could be.
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The report said that the total backlog of unresolved or disputed immigration cases in the UK was 312,726 at the end of September last year - but it was not possible to be sure if that figure was accurate. Officials say the committee's figures include cases that have either been closed or should not be considered as part of a backlog.
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The suggestion that I deliberately misled the Committee and refused to apologise are both untrue and unfair