Home Secretary issues Schedule 1 licence
Following advice from senior clinicians, the Home Secretary has used an exceptional power to grant a Schedule 1 licence to allow Billy Caldwell to be treated with cannabis oil.
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Factsheet: Modern Slavery
A number of newspapers cover the Public Accounts Committee report on modern slavery today including the Times, Independent and Mirror. The report acknowledged that the UK is ahead of many countries when responding to modern slavery but makes a number …
Statement on the Kerslake Review
This afternoon, an independent report into the emergency response to the Manchester Arena attack has been published.
Home Office in the media: 20 March 2018
Today’s Home Office related stories include articles regarding nearly 500 sex offenders who are "missing". The Guardian also reports that plans to 'deport' two academics have been dropped.
Factsheet: 10 steps the Government has taken to tackle "dirty money" in the UK
Today the Security and Economic Crime Minister, Ben Wallace, set out in the House of Commons the measures that the Government has introduced to tackle illicit funds and how it will continue to make the UK a hostile environment for …
Home Office in the media: 2 March 2018
Today’s Home Office-related coverage includes a report by Hope Not Hate, which focuses on far-right terrorism. Other coverage focused on the threat level from Northern Ireland-related terrorism to Great Britain, and the disclosure of files relating to Orgreave.
Home Office in the media: 22 February 2018
Today’s Home Office-related coverage includes the sentencing of two people smugglers, claims about detainees’ welfare after an incident during an escort and the immigration status of some Commonwealth nationals. Supreme Court judgment There is widespread coverage of the Supreme Court …
Home Office in the media: 31 January 2018
Today's Home Office-related stories including a Border Force seizure, a Court of Appeal ruling on the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act and Tier 2 visas.
Home Office response to Mail on Sunday front page, Sunday December 31
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The Mail on Sunday has today published a front-page story (‘The UK Border Farce’, 31 December 2017) claiming that unpaid volunteers are set to become the “first line of defence against terrorists, people smugglers and organised crime gangs at hundreds of vulnerable air …
Home Secretary reveals personal experience of fraud
Today, the Home Secretary has revealed that her father became a victim of a type of fraud known as a 'vishing' scam and why tackling fraud is so important to her. This was reported in the Evening Standard. You can read …