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Home Office in the Media: 23 July 2018

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 23 July 2018 - Categories: Leading stories
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...has seen a surge in reported acid attacks with numbers soaring from 228 in 2012 to 601 four years later. Home Office spokesperson said: Attacks using acid and other corrosive...

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Home Office in the media: 4 July 2017

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 4 July 2017 - Categories: Leading stories
Seized handgun

Today's Home Office related news coverage includes the seizure of 79 handguns by Border Force officers in Northern France, a report into the funding of extremism and the extension of...

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5,000 Syrian refugees resettled

Posted by: Home Office news team, Posted on: 23 February 2017 - Categories: Press release
New figures on scheme to resettle refugees

The Government's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement (VPR) scheme has now helped resettle more than 5,000 Syrian refugees in the UK, the latest Home Office immigration statistics have revealed. Approximately half...

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