We need to learn the lessons of the past properly. Three members of the Public Accounts Committee are here today—my hon. Friends the Members for Peterborough (Mr Jackson) and for North East Cambridgeshire (Stephen Barclay) and myself—and we see only too regularly examples of Departments operating in silos and the inability of the best of our civil service to understand the reports they provide to Ministers. I therefore wonder whether there was much cross-departmental working on reports in the right hon. Gentleman’s time and the time of the shadow Minister. The right hon. Gentleman has just mentioned a number of Departments, and I wonder whether the Minister can talk about the cross-departmental working that is going on now to deal with these issues.
Immigration (Bulgaria and Romania)
Proceeding contribution from
Chris Heaton-Harris
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 April 2013.
It occurred during Backbench debate
and
e-petition debate on Immigration (Bulgaria and Romania).
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