Bonuses all round for failing Border Agency The UK Border Agency is paying out £295,000 in bonuses to senior staff despite its ongoing struggle with a backlog of thousands of mystery cases. The Home Affairs Committee's latest report into the UKBA found that although it has worked through about half of its 450,000 backlog, it still does not expect to finish until summer …
It's just a question of whose plan is it..
Though does the maths work out?
Deported (14% of 220,000) 30,800
Can stay (34% of 220,000) 74,800
Duplicates 4,000
Errors 88,500
EU 8,500
Total 206,600
Leaves (220,000 - 206,600) 13,400
or a little over 5%
Or am I incorrectly interpreting the figures given?
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PH - cos of her figure, not much wrong there.
Total number concluded Of which, main applicants Of which, dependents
Removals 30,000 (14%) 28,000 2,500
Grants 74,000 (34%) 41,500 32,500
Others 116,000 (52%) 100,500 15,500
Total 220,000 170,000 50,500
The other total should be made up of the duplicated (4000) , errors (88500) and EU (8500) numbers (100,500) [My figures come from the report]
The 15,500 unaccounted for appear to be "Cases where attempts to contact the applicant have been unsuccessful and subsequently the case has been in the archive for more than six months"
Nice how all the numbers have been rounded to the nearest 500 and the percentage figures to the nearest %. Deported 14% should be 13.6% for example.
Failed becuase the numbers have been rounded way to much.
Why does the culture exist in the public sector that makes it acceptable to reward failure? Those who don't yet work for the Government don't expect bonuses unless they have exceeded expectations. (Well, apart from the banking sector but 1/4 of them effectively work for the Government now anyway!)
And the million+ people who own or work for small businesses don't expect any kind of reward for their hard work, they're just happy to have kept their jobs and the business's head floating above water.
This should be put in context. The Minister with his hands in the till - whoops, responsible - appeared on the R4 Today programme to protest how brave his staff were. While I can well believe those at the sharper end will be putting themselves at risk, he also specifically said that the 29 individuals were all 'senior management'. Can anyone guess how brave they have been in the face of dangerous immigration - or was he referring to the bravery of accepting the bonus given current economic, political and competence circumstances?
Oliver, excellent idea, but there might be some resistance at first so we'd need to make it completely voluntary at first. Then, when it is blindingly obvious that an ID card scheme that you don't have to join is about as good as a Labour Government, sorry!, I meant chocolate teapot, we can move to the "compulsory" stage, and introduce a few new "anti-terrorist" laws to let the police stop anyone they want in an area that has been designated as sensitive (so sensitive in fact that no-one can know where it is) and shoot them on the spot if they either a) don't have an ID card or b) look a bit dodgy.
Thanks for your support on this
G.Brown
The interview of some government muppet by John Humphries this morning was funny. He kept saying how they had worked hard and deserved their bonus. John Humphries kept responding with "so they have done the job they are paid for so why do they need they paying extra?".
As usual it is just the senior people who are considered hard enough to get £10,000 bonuses, not the people doing the actual real hard work in unpleasant and possibly dangerous circumstances.
They just don't understand why people are so angry about automatic bonuses to senior staff.
MB
their life on the line in combat, get close to jack if they are invalided. I liked the story yesterday when Headley Court was mentioned and how maybe the govins could see to it that they were paid similar amounts from the same fund as victims of crime. Excuse me but that should be the very least that they get. Give them the £47m in bonuses this year the MoD are about to get for not getting the right kit to them in the first place.
OK, neck on the block time.
This sounds like a story and subsequent knee-jerk reaction you get in the Daily Mail.
Have any of you armchair revolutionaries done any kind of research into last year's (last decade's, or even verified this year's) figures?
Maybe, just maybe, the management haven't been there for 20 years, inherited an absolute shambles from the 90s and have pulled a blinder of a job this year putting a huge dent in a massive backlog...
Maybe they get paid less and have a bonus system to encourage them to do a good job.
The may of even earned what they got paid.
Luckily for them the Daily Mail doesn't encourage witch burning any more because otherwise there'd be a massed army of hysterical bloggers wielding virtual pitchforks right now...
I'm sure that in all probability they're overpaid idiots on the gravy train - I just can't be arsed to go and find out.
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