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Five Missions Impossible?

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Is the Home Office as Fast as It Should Be?

As a minister, do you find yourself kind of pressing metaphorical buttons and just like nothing happens or it happens very slowly? Hey, look, I'm lucky. I've got an amazing team of fantastic people who are absolutely dedicated in the home office. And then you go to the agencies and they are phenomenal. The National Crime Agency, the MI5, they're extraordinary. One of the agencies deals with asylum claims and the backlog of people waiting for the claims to be processed. Today was revealed to be the highest it's ever been since they started counting these things. That's not responsive and quick as it should be.

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