Sentences with phrase «by the home secretary»

The home affairs committee demanded a royal commission into drug policy last year, but its call was rejected by the home secretary and the prime minister.

We now have to hope the upper tribunal strikes down the desperate nonsense asserted by the home secretary.

The accounts document also provides little information about the cost of the headline - grabbing legal battles undertaken by the home secretary since she accepted the post in 2010.

A consequence of conditional discharge is that, unlike with an absolute discharge, a patient remains liable to recall to hospital by the home secretary.

The change follows a decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to ban the drug, which has already been outlawed in other European countries, to avoid Britain becoming a hub for trading in a substance that was illegal elsewhere.

The new measures, announced last month by home secretary Jacqui Smith, would mean that men would be breaking the law if they paid for sex with a woman trafficked into the UK or is working for a pimp, regardless of whether the man was aware the woman was forced into prostitution.

«That the existence of this previously top secret database was finally revealed in parliament by the home secretary on Wednesday, as part of a comprehensive new investigatory powers bill covering many other previously secret intelligence capabilities, speaks volumes about how far we've come in a few short years.»

Further talks on the proposals will be held this week by Home Secretary Amber Rudd and French interior minister Gerard Collomb.

«This can only be a positive development for many refugees who are often victims of badly constructed decisions by the home secretary.»

The Criminal Finances Bill, introduced in Parliament by the Home Secretary last week, aims to tackle money laundering and corruption, and recover the proceeds of crime and counter terrorist financing.

Young people are being targeted in a new crime strategy, unveiled this week by home secretary Jacqui Smith.

In a tweet, the Labour leader said the decision announced by the Home Secretary on Monday afternoon denied «truth and justice for victims and their families.»

In April, the government proposed removing the defence as part of its action plan on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist finance, now included in the Criminal Finances Bill, introduced in Parliament by the Home Secretary this month.

The inquiry was confirmed by Home Secretary Theresa May who told MP's: «Our priority must be the prosecution of the people behind these disgusting crimes.

«My chief officer colleagues and I have been invited by the home secretary Jacqui Smith to undertake some urgent work building on recent successes to identify what additional progress we can make to work more effectively across all government agencies and with both statutory and non-statutory organisations, around tackling gang related gun crime and the supply of guns.»

Draft ideas for a so - called «snoopers» charter», as supported by the home secretary Theresa May and others, could also potentially be timetabled for legislation today.

The Guardian newspaper reported the proposal would be contained in a consultation paper due next month by home secretary Jacqui Smith.

The man chosen by the home secretary to scrutinise the police force has promised he will stand up to her while doing his job.

There were concerns that this march would be affected by the 30 day ban imposed by the Home Secretary after the English Defence League threatened to march through Tower Hamlets.

Professor David Nutt, the former chairman of the advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) who was sacked by home secretary Alan Johnson late on Friday, said the government «may lose the rest of its scientific advisers» in an article for the Times.

Rowdy groups of young people are to be openly filmed by police and followed around their neighbourhood under new plans announced in a speech today by the home secretary, Jacqui Smith.

His misuse of official crime figures, first exposed by the BBC's home affairs editor, Mark Easton, has been seized on by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson as a major gaffe that can be used against every Tory candidate at the forthcoming election.

The strict measures which can be made by the Home Secretary allow severe restrictions on anybody suspected of being involved with terrorism.

Despite being banned by the home secretary, around 1,000 far - right activists and 1,500 anti-fascist opponents gathered in east London, where the police promptly tried to disperse them.

The greatest disappointment was the anti-immigration speech by the Home Secretary.

This new pay system was described at the time by the Home Secretary of the day as «the most significant change to the police pay system in a generation.»

Elite police squads of high - fliers and specialist detectives are being proposed by the Home Secretary.

A national review of how protests are held outside clinics is under way after an announcement by Home Secretary Amber Rudd last year.

A person is led away after a number of drugs raids in a housing estate in south London ahead of the launch of a new drug strategy by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

The bill was first presented to the Commons by home secretary Theresa May in June and the committee is due to report its findings back to the house on Novermber 30th.

It is a good night indeed for Jeremy Corbyn if the seat held by the home secretary turns red.

The report appears to raise concerns about the «Lille loophole» — a way of avoiding UK Border Agency (UKBA) checks by travelling to Britain from Brussels via Lille — but this section is among those redacted by the home secretary.

«Theresa May's closest adviser has resigned for inappropriate release of ministerial correspondence yet the letter to the education secretary was signed and sent by the home secretary on the same day it was leaked to newspapers.

Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, said: «This week has highlighted the chaos at the heart of the government's efforts to tackle extremism and the damage done to the Prevent programme by the home secretary's and education secretary's inability to work together.

In the event the implementation of the Boundary Review was postponed for partisan reasons until after the next General Election by Home Secretary James Callaghan (on the pretext of waiting until after the Redcliffe - Maud Report on local government reorganisation).

Then there is the outrage that the police commissioner in S. Yorkshire, Shaun Wright, can not be sacked by the home secretary despite his manifest culpability over supervision of Rotherham child care services when the child sex abuse was so rampant.

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Learn more about what is being done by the Home Secretary to tackle VAWG here.

That power is being extended to parents of 16 and 17 - year - olds, allowing families to contact a passport office where officials will investigate their concerns before a final decision is taken by the home secretary.

«For this latest complaint to have be triggered by the home secretary's own neighbours literally brings these allegations to New Labour's doorstep.»

Committee chairman Keith Vaz said he was surprised by home secretary Jacqui Smith's admission that only six of 71 consultation responses had supported the government's proposal.

An Iranian teenager facing deportation and possible death in Iran has been granted a reprieve by the home secretary.

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Under rules put in place by the home secretary, only Brits earning # 18,600 can bring their loved ones to the UK.

Other reforms outlined by the home secretary include proposals to demand a minimum standard of English from people settling with a spouse in the UK and new powers to withhold citizenship from anyone breaking the law.

The most withering critique of Boris Johnson's recent posturing was signed off by the prime minister and delivered by the home secretary.

The Asperger's sufferer's marathon struggle against extradition to the US, which unlike Britain does not have to provide evidence to back up its extradition requests, is being considered afresh by home secretary Theresa May.

«We received a clear legal opinion from Tim Owen QC and Julian Knowles, the barristers at Matrix Chambers specialising in human rights and extradition law, that the scope for the exercise of discretion by the home secretary is greater than you believe,» Keith Vaz, chairman of the committee, wrote.

A crack down on anti-social behaviour is being launched by the home secretary today, in a bid to reclaim ground on the issue.

That new approach has just been unveiled by the Home Secretary, Theresa May, when she commended the Government's Review of the Prevent strand of the Counter-Terrorism strategy to the House of Commons.