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Officials from both departments described ongoing challenges joining up information across systems.
Conclusion
Officials from both departments described ongoing challenges joining up information across systems. The MoJ explained that achieving fuller interoperability “needs money and a focused effort,” and that enabling systems to “talk to each other and share data” is difficult given the different digital systems in use.35 The Home Office said it intends to address some of these challenges by creating “a group of data analysts across Government” to support data join-up; this is a sub-group of the new asylum board and is already working with the MoJ.36 Additionally, the Home Office said it is creating “a new blueprint” inside the Home Office to ensure that all data for the borders and immigration system moves from manual processes to Atlas, and told us some staff still operate off individual spreadsheets, resulting in multiple records and ongoing data quality issue.37
Source
Committee
Public Accounts Committee
Inquiry
An analysis of the asylum system
Report
1st Report - An analysis of the asylum system
05 Jun 2026
HC 89
Addressee Bodies
HM Treasury
Timeline
Recommendation age
0.1 yrs
Report published
05 Jun 2026