There has been significant coverage in the media of comments made by Lord Hague in the Daily Telegraph calling for the decriminalisation of cannabis. The Home Office has been clear that there is strong scientific and medical evidence that cannabis …
The information in this post is now out of date following a change in the law made in November 2018. Please see the following link for up to date information on cannabis for medicinal use: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/medical-cannabis/ Classification and scheduling …
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.
Today’s papers cover the Home Office’s announcement that doctors and nurses are to be excluded from the cap on skilled worker visas, as well as the publication of the Home...
Eight men have been sentenced for nearly 90 years after they were found guilty of rape and conspiracy to rape young girls. The cases have been reported in local and national media. The men aged between 36 and 48 years …
...papers cite FOI figures showing around 10,000 applications made by employers to sponsor non-EU skilled workers were refused between December and April this year. The paper says the figures show...
Today's Home Office-related business includes a new national scheme to recruit detectives and the Home Secretary writing in the Guardian about the Counter Terrorism and Security Bill.
Today’s Home Office-related stories include further coverage of violent crime and moped-enabled crime.
This Government is determined to do all it can to tackle violent crime, which devastates lives and all too frequently appears on the front pages of our newspapers. We are taking unprecedented action and have published the Government’s first Serious …
Today’s Home Office media stories include the UK’s efforts to tackle violent crime and the new counter-terrorism and Border Security Bill.
