Stakeholder groups
This page outlines some of our key stakeholder engagement activities and gives some of the background to why working with stakeholders is a priority for the organisation.
Consultation with the key stakeholders and partners throughout the United Kingdom and around the world is crucial to transforming the immigration system. We recognise that our proposals to strengthen checks on identity and tackle illegal working in particular may place some additional burdens on business. We are working in partnership with those concerned to minimise these.
A number of our proposals will also simplify regulation and reduce bureaucracy. Our plans to overhaul the complex laws, rules and guidance on immigration and to introduce the points-based system will help public servants, visitors, employers, education establishments and the travel industry alike.
The measures to simplify some of the workings of the UK Border Agency also include streamlining the number of stakeholder groups that work within the organisation. Many of these groups were wound up at the end of 2006 and we have now introduced a single corporate stakeholder group.
In addition we have a number of specific taskforces allowing us to work with key organisations on developing particular policies.