Government bodies unfit for purpose

We all know by now that the Care Quality Commission isn't fit for purpose. They ignored a whistleblower's claims about Winterbourne View - not once, but three times. Then he gave up on this state organisation that we pay for and went to the BBC.

It's not as if this is a minor part of the Commission's job - this is its central purpose. At the very least the Commission's culture is wrong. This is, of course, the responsibility of its senior management.

The UK Border Agency has also failed.

Out of a backlog of 403,500 asylum cases dealt with since 2006, 161,000 applicants have been allowed to stay in the UK, in what was "in effect an amnesty".

Another 74,500 cases have been shelved as officials have no idea where the people are. Only 38,000 failed applicants - nine per cent of the total - have been removed from Britain.

The Agency is also locked in a "binding arbitration" process with Raytheon after the IT supplier was sacked from the failing £1.2bn e-Borders immigration programme in July last year.

Until being removed from the e-Borders contract Raytheon had been paid £188 million, out of its £742 million contract.

Much of this is, of course, the responsibility of its senior management. So what's happened to them? Have they been sacked? Lin Hamer, the boss, who was said to have "presided over chaos", has been promoted. Oh good.

So no one's to blame?

The weedy Damian Green blames the Labour governments.

Why?