[1] The Home Office suspended Clark,[2] and carried out a precautionary suspension for two of Clark's senior team: Carole Upshall, director of the Border Force South and Europe,[citation needed] and Graeme Kyle, director of operations at Heathrow Airport.
On 8 November 2011 Clark formally resigned from the UK Border Agency insisting that comments made by the Home Secretary, Theresa May amounted to constructive dismissal and that he would launch legal proceedings.
[6] In mid-March 2012, it was reported that Clark had reached an out-of-court settlement with the Home Office, avoiding the need for both parties to go to an Employment Tribunal.
It was further reported that while the sum of money paid to Mr Clark to settle the case was undisclosed, and that while the settlement might save time and legal costs for the Government, it also meant that the full account of what had happened, which had led to the UK Border Agency's being split in two, might never be disclosed.
[7][8] On 26 July 2012, BBC News reported Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee, as saying in hindsight that Clark's departure had been "totally unnecessary" and had happened because "everyone panicked".