Dame Sara Khan said her proposals were left ‘sitting on a shelf gathering dust’ By David Barrett Home Affairs Editor Published: 01:31 GMT, 18 December 2023 | Updated: 01:41 GMT, 18 December 2023 The former extremism tsar has said she is ‘baffled’ by the Home Office‘s failure to act on her proposals to tackle radicalisation. … Read more
The force sent officers to just 38 per cent of incidents during 2022/23 By George Odling Crime Correspondent Published: 22:08 GMT, 13 December 2023 | Updated: 22:47 GMT, 13 December 2023 Scotland Yard attended less than half of shoplifting incidents in the last year, despite soaring offending blowing a £1billion annual black hole in Britain’s high … Read more
By David Barrett Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 00:53 GMT, 12 December 2023 | Updated: 10:30 GMT, 12 December 2023 Ministers anticipate small-boat arrivals could continue for up to a decade, it has emerged, amid vast sums being spent on the Channel crisis. The Home Office thinks migrant reception centres will continue operating for up to … Read more
By Jason Groves Political Editor Published: 22:31 GMT, 7 December 2023 | Updated: 23:19 GMT, 7 December 2023 The cost of the Rwanda scheme has doubled to almost £300million, despite never being used, the Home Office admitted last night. Whitehall sources told the Mail ministers had signed off payments totalling a further £100million to the … Read more
Home Office caseworkers made under 42,000 decisions on claims in 2023 Rate has rocketed as Government introduced schemes to clear backlog of cases The data showed the largest number of applications came from Afghans By David Barrett Published: 21:53 GMT, 30 November 2023 | Updated: 04:36 GMT, 1 December 2023 The number of asylum seekers … Read more
Rycroft and Ridley: it could be an ecclesiastical outfitter’s, or a cheese shop in Belgravia. ‘Delicious Stinking Bishop, Petunia.’ ‘Thank you, I sourced it from Rycroft and Ridley.’ In fact Sir Matthew Rycroft is the Home Office‘s permanent secretary and Simon Ridley its interim second permanent secretary. For two hours they faced the Commons home … Read more
Sir Matthew Rycroft told MPs officials were in Kigali negotiating ‘as we speak’ By David Barrett Home Affairs Editor Published: 23:08 GMT, 29 November 2023 | Updated: 03:51 GMT, 30 November 2023 Home Office representatives were in Rwanda on Wednesday putting the ‘finishing touches’ to a revamped asylum pact, MPs were told. Members of the … Read more
Domestic abuse and burglary victims are left waiting for up to 13 hours for Britain’s slowest police force to attend priority calls, figures show. Police in Birmingham West took 13 and a half hours to respond to priority calls last year, according to data gathered from police forces across the country. Most forces aim to … Read more
Priti in pink! Ex-home secretary Patel collects her damehood from Princess Anne at Windsor Castle as she prepares to give Rishi Sunak a fresh headache at upcoming Tory conference By Greg Heffer, Political Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 17:06 BST, 27 September 2023 | Updated: 18:01 BST, 27 September 2023 Dame Priti Patel today formally received … Read more
The Home Office is paying ‘around £8 million’ per day for asylum seekers to be put up in hotels, new figures show. The department’s annual accounts, published today, reveal the cost is £2mn higher than that cited by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Commons on Monday. The 2022-23 report claimed that the arrival of small … Read more
Officials will use X-rays and MRI scans to determine the age of asylum seekers falsely claiming to be unaccompanied children, the Government announced today. MRIs of knees and collar bones could be used to check people arriving across the Channel in small boats along with X-rays of teeth, hands and wrists. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick wants … Read more
A young migrant girl has been pictured boarding a coach in Dover today as dozens of asylum seekers including children arrived on a Border Force ship after being picked up in the Channel. More than 18,000 people have now crossed the waters in small boats so far this year. Home Office data showed that a … Read more
Plans to move migrants onto the huge Bibby Stockholm barge are being delayed after the health and safety watchdog raised concerns about the wellbeing of dockworkers, it was reported last night. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to put an end to British taxpayers paying £6million-a-day to house asylum seekers. The enormous vessel has been moored … Read more