BBC News Monday, 22 May 2006, 12:49 GMT 13:49 UK

700 escaped open jails last year

The Home Office says absconders can be criminally charged

Phil Wheatley made the disclosure as the Home office came under fire after a raft of allegations about its work.

Tory David Davis says ministers "took their eye off the ball" after it emerged 393 offenders had absconded from Leyhill open prison since 1999.

But Mr Wheatley says over three quarters of absconders will have been rearrested and returned to custody.

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The Home Office is in a state of shambles.  Wait for the general revelation about the fact of almost eight years of 24/7 surveillance carried out in order to destroy human activity and life by means of false imprisonment, presumption of guilt, torture and attempted murder by the lethal use of this surveillance technology.  It was in the hands of scores of untrained, unvetted and inexperienced people from the general public who used it for their own sadistic pleasure and personal gain.  Medical experimenttion has been carried out too for many years.  All of this has been based upon fabricated allegations by those reported for their child abuse and other crimes in 1998. 

Do you think that those in the Home Office believe that the surveillance technology used against me to attempt to discredit and destroy what I document and report will be effective everywhere in the Home Office so that they don't have to work at all? They'll just cover up and intimidate everyone.

BBC News Monday, 22 May 2006, 18:30 GMT 19:30 UK

Reid swaps immigration ministers

There are no official estimates of illegal immigrants in the UK

A home office spokesman rejected claims the move was a result of recent immigration scandals.

Mr McNulty will take over the police brief from Mr Byrne, who had been in the job for just two weeks.

David Davis, for the Tories, said if Mr McNulty "is not good enough to run the immigration department, how will he be capable of running the police force?"

But the home office insisted Mr McNulty was the best person to push through police reforms, including the controversial merger of regional forces, because he was a former government Whip.

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Read the above and weep. What will be next?