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| No UK rollout for 'go home' vans | No UK rollout for 'go home' vans |
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| Vans telling illegal immigrants to "go home" or face arrest will not be rolled out across the UK. | Vans telling illegal immigrants to "go home" or face arrest will not be rolled out across the UK. |
| A trial of the controversial vans in London is currently being evaluated by the Home Office. | A trial of the controversial vans in London is currently being evaluated by the Home Office. |
| A government source has told BBC News the evidence shows the vans are "not very effective". | A government source has told BBC News the evidence shows the vans are "not very effective". |
| It was not clear when the evidence would be published, added the government source, but "the vans will not be going ahead". | It was not clear when the evidence would be published, added the government source, but "the vans will not be going ahead". |
| The Home Office's pilot, which saw vans driving around parts of London for a week in July, drew criticism from across the political spectrum. | The Home Office's pilot, which saw vans driving around parts of London for a week in July, drew criticism from across the political spectrum. |
| Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable described the campaign as "stupid", and Labour accused the government of aping language used by the far-right National Front in the 1970s. | Liberal Democrat Business Secretary Vince Cable described the campaign as "stupid", and Labour accused the government of aping language used by the far-right National Front in the 1970s. |
| UKIP said the scheme was "disturbing" and reminiscent of a fascist dictatorship. | UKIP said the scheme was "disturbing" and reminiscent of a fascist dictatorship. |
| The vans were also criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority, which said the arrest statistics on them were misleading, although the watchdog cleared the campaign of being offensive and irresponsible. | |
| 'Hard-hitting' | |
| Home Office ministers insisted that the pilot had worked - and they were considering extending it to other parts of the country. | Home Office ministers insisted that the pilot had worked - and they were considering extending it to other parts of the country. |
| Speaking earlier this month, police minister Damian Green said the "hard-hitting" campaign had "let people know that 'the traditional view that if you have been here illegally nothing would happen to you' is not the case". | |
| But according to the Daily Mail, Home Secretary Theresa May has decided not to extend their use, as only one person, a Pakistani man, was persuaded to leave the country as a result of seeing the signs. | |
| Mrs May is expected to update MPs on the future of the vans when the government's Immigration Bill is debated in the House of Commons later. | |
| Speaking in a separate parliamentary debate on Tuesday, Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert said he would be "very pleased" if the idea was scrapped, describing it as "deeply inappropriate". | |
| The Lib Dems claim they were not consulted about the idea and would have opposed it had they known. | |
| A request by the BBC to see the Home Office's initial evaluation of the pilot has been turned down. | |
| The BBC's home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani requested information about the response to the ad campaign, under Freedom of Information laws. | |
| But he was told the details were intended for "future publication" and therefore were exempt from disclosure rules. |