Review update
Published 29 January 2015
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Following the publication of this review, Mrs A’s family members have met the Permanent Secretary for the Home Office, Mark Sedwill, to discuss its findings and next steps.
A Home Office spokesman has also issued the following statement:
“We take the issues raised by this highly regrettable case extremely seriously and have taken decisive action to address them.
“We have accepted all of the recommendations made by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and this review.
“We have already made significant improvements to the way intelligence is handled, along with allegations made by the public.
“And Operation Nexus, a joint police and Home Office initiative launched in 2012, has contributed to a huge rise in the number of checks carried out on foreign nationals arrested by police in the UK - up 700 per cent under this government.”