Sentences with phrase «invited by the home secretary»

«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.»

«I was honoured to be invited by the home secretary to chair the wide - ranging inquiry about child sexual abuse and hoped I could make a useful contribution.

Not exact matches

I fully support the decision (announced by the home secretary in the House of Commons on Tuesday) of the chief constable of north Wales, Mr Mark Polin, to invite Mr Keith Bristow, the director general of the National Crime Agency, to assess the allegations recently received, to review the historic police investigations and to investigate any fresh allegations reported to the police into the alleged historic abuse in north Wales care homes.

Home secretary Jacqui Smith is among those invited to a summit on gun control proposed by Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill today.