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E-BORDERS: UK: House of Commons: Public Accounts Committee

15 March 2016

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"On current projections the Home Office’s (the Department’s) e-Borders programme and its successors will cost over a billion pounds, be delivered 8 years late and not provide the benefits expected for transport carriers and passengers.... The Department was emphatic that our borders are secure. However, the Department needs to accept that its assertion that it checks 100% of passports is both imprecise and unrealistic due to the complexity of our border.."

See the full text: e-Borders and successor programmes (pdf) and Committee page (links to evidence)

Also see: E-borders will be eight years late and cost more than £1bn (The Register, link)

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