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<p>This Government inherited over 223,000 records - dating from before December 2008
- with very poor data quality, and no structured plan. Alongside wider work to restore
control to our immigration system, particularly through abolishing the UK Border Agency,
the Government initiated a programme to bring sense to this stock of old records.
Having identified and taken out records relating to those people known to have left
the country, as well as duplicate and erroneous records, the number of meaningful
pre-2008 records is just over 89,000. Those are now being addressed in the proper
way.</p><p />
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