Matt Hancock said today that the decision to destroy the cards was made by the Border Agency which was independent and not part of the Home Office at the time. The culture secretary went on to say the government would put things “right” and had a team on the problem where people affected would be helped within two weeks. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn