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Factsheet: UK visa services

Posted by: lurquhart, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Uncategorised

UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) received more than 3.3 million visa applications in the year ending June 2019, of which almost 2.9 million were granted. The UK offers a high-quality service for those wishing to come to the UK. It’s …

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Factsheet: Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Fact sheet

  The government is committed to tackling Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) in all its forms and to protect children from this terrible crime. Scale of CSEA Law enforcement agencies in the UK are currently arresting around 450 individuals …

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Factsheet: Encryption

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Fact sheet

The Government supports strong encryption, which is used by billions of people every day for services such as banking, commerce and communications. However, we are concerned that end-to-end encryption has created significant and avoidable barriers to companies being able to …

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Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Fact sheet, Uncategorised

This factsheet outlines action taken by the government to tackle violence against women and girls.

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Factsheet: Prevent and Channel

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Fact sheet

Please note that the statistics below are outdated, please refer to our latest factsheet on Prevent and Channel. Prevent The purpose of Prevent is to safeguard vulnerable people from becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, by engaging with people who are …

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Home Office in the media: Tuesday 5 November

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 5 November 2019 - Categories: Leading stories
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Today's leading stories include the UK's terrorism threat level, and immigration surgeries at community and faith based locations. Terrorism threat level There is widespread coverage of the UK’s terrorism threat level being downgraded from severe to substantial after the Home …

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Media factsheet: Border Force

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 4 November 2019 - Categories: Fact sheet

The work of Border Force: Border Force’s mission is to secure the UK border. Officers work at around 140 sea and air ports across the UK and overseas to ensure the smooth flow of people and goods over the border.  …

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Home Office in the media: Monday 4 November

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 4 November 2019 - Categories: Leading stories
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Today's leading stories include the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report, Vietnamese children going missing from British schools and the Scottish Affairs Committee report on drugs.

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Home Office in the media: Friday 1 November

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 1 November 2019 - Categories: Leading stories
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Today's leading stories include a report on the use of live facial recognition, and fire workforce statistics. Facial recognition The FT, Times and Telegraph report that the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) urged the police to hold back its use of …

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