Capability Reid / CIPFA, 23 June 2006

http://www.cipfa.org.uk/publicfinance/leader_details.cfm?news_id=28018
"The Home Office can’t seem to do much right. Whether it is misplacing foreign prisoners, performing a clumsy U-turn over police force mergers or the ongoing shambles in the asylum system, it has been open season on the department recently. There is more than a whiff of moral panic about some of the accusations being levelled at the residents of Marsham Street. The tabloids have dutifully worked themselves into a frenzy about the threat to children from ‘sex beasts’. And ministers have shown an apparent willingness to respond – witness this week’s hastily announced decision to send Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe to the US to research Megan’s Law. "