Mr Tuckett also said he would be fine to work five days in the office if needed, adding: “I have done this kind of work before, and when I was asked this question at my interview, I said, I think that my judgment is you need time when you’re available for ministers, visits, all the things where you need to do face to face.
Announcing the recommendation of Mr Tuckett for the role, migration minister Seema Malhotra said: “His track record of delivering complex change programmes across government, combined with his current role as Immigration Services Commissioner, makes him ideally suited to take on this crucial independent oversight role at an important time for our border security.”.
On Tuesday, Mr Tuckett was asked how he would handle a situation where he had a concern that ministers would not act upon, to which he replied: “I think you have to continue to take it to ministers for as long as you can, if they, at the end of the day, don’t want to do anything about it, that is a minister’s prerogative.”.
John Tuckett, who has worked as the Immigration Services Commissioner for six years, was quizzed by the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday ahead of the appointment of the next independent chief inspector of borders and immigration (ICIBI).
When he was then asked if he would expect to inspect the UK borders without being a resident in the UK, he added: “I work in the UK and I would be in the UK, I’m a resident in Finland.”.
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