Sentences with phrase «taken by the home secretary»

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.

Not exact matches

Take another ETS case, R (on the application of Ashfaq Ali) v Secretary of State for the Home Department, where the tribunal found that the student accused of fraud by the Home Office was not entitled to an in - country right of appeal.

That this House notes that the report of the inquiry conducted by Chief Constable Ian Johnston of the British Transport Police, and which was commissioned by the Metropolitan Police in December to review the arrest and investigation of the hon. Member for Ashford, has been withheld from public scrutiny and from Parliament despite the fact that parts of the report were released by the Metropolitan Police on 16 December 2008 and used in comments by Assistant Police Commissioner Bob Quick; and therefore calls on the Home Secretary to take appropriate measures to ensure that a copy of the report be placed in the Library without further delay.»

«It is wrong for the home secretary and the prime minister to try to take the credit for tough and correct action taken by the police while at the same time trying to pass the buck for any criticisms back to them,» commented shaodw policing minister Vernon Coaker.

Sajid Javid has promised to «do whatever it takes» to put right problems faced by the Windrush generation after he succeeded Amber Rudd as home secretary.

Ben Carson, who took Trump on a tour of blighted neighborhoods in Detroit during the presidential campaign, including his boyhood home, has been chosen by the president - elect to oversee one of the government's main efforts to lift American cities as HUD secretary.

The shadow home secretary and Labour leadership contender called for the UK to be true to its values and history by taking in more refugees.

Ed Balls is confirmed as Shadow Chancellor; his wife Yvette Cooper takes his job as shadow home secretary; Douglas Alexander takes her former portfolio of shadow foreign secretary; Lima Byrne becomes shadow work and pensions secretary; Tessa Jowell to take on responsibilities shadowing the Cabinet Office, formerly held by Byrne.

That is undeniably true and I well remember an article in the Telegraph by Michael Howard written in the form of a letter to John Reid, who had just taken over from the hapless Charles Clarke as Home Secretary.

A Downing Street spokesman later said the «operational decision» to dispose of the documents was taken by the UK Border Agency, meaning it would not have come across the desk of the then Labour Home Secretary.

The Mayor, Governor, Senator and Secretary answered several on topic questions, including why the approved projects do not include any in Brooklyn and Queens and whether actions taken by «other jurisdictions» are sufficient, when will the resiliency efforts be complete and when will the majority of Build It Back homes be completed, what complexities Secretary Donovan saw when his Department approved the Build It Back program and why is New York City slower than Nassau and Suffolk Counties to deliver post-Sandy assistance to homeowners.

Given the great distress and burden on the public purse caused by Fayed's absurd allegations, will the Home Secretary take swift action to remove for good as an undesirable alien that thief, crook and liar?

Home secretary John Reid said: «The new respect areas will take public accountability one step further, with regular statutory «face the people» sessions where they will be scrutinised by their local community for the work they have done and have yet to do.

«Theresa May's ideological and unwise decision to ditch the Labour government's scheme immediately she took office as home secretary has left her and her beleaguered successor with no idea how to tackle the most pernicious form of immigration: illegal entry, usually organised by people traffickers,» they wrote.

He also said he would take advice on tackling gangs and violence from Bill Bratton, the former New York police chief he had tried to recruit as the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner until being blocked by the Home Secretary, Theresa May.

The other of the four «great offices» - leader, Chancellor, Home and Foreign Secretaries - is already taken by Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry.

Meanwhile Cooper's campaign are quietly confident they are eclipsing Andy Burnham as the main rival to Corbyn, following a poll seen by the Daily Mirror that had the Shadow Home Secretary just two points behind the left - winger once transfers had been taken into account.

Referring to unguarded comments recorded by Sky News by Tory former chancellor Ken Clarke in which he referred to Mrs May as «a bloody difficult woman», the Home Secretary joked that the next person to take that view of her would be Jean - Claude Juncker, the European Commission president.

By reference to cases including R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, Miss Behavin» Ltd v Belfast City Council [2007] UKHL 19, R (Stevens) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 792 (Admin) and R (Nagre) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 720 (Admin), Hickinbottom J expressed the view that the differences between the approach required by ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engageBy reference to cases including R (SB) v Governors of Denbigh High School [2006] UKHL 15, Miss Behavin» Ltd v Belfast City Council [2007] UKHL 19, R (Stevens) v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government [2013] EWHC 792 (Admin) and R (Nagre) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2013] EWHC 720 (Admin), Hickinbottom J expressed the view that the differences between the approach required by ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engageby ECHR jurisprudence and the traditional Wednesbury approach could be exaggerated and explained how a court should allow considerable deference to a decision, which on its face properly took into account the human rights engaged.

In Secretary of State for the Home Department v Sergei Skripal [2018] EWCOP 6, Mr Justice Williams made a best interests decision that blood samples could be taken by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons from Sergei and Yulia Skirpal in order that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OCPW) could undertake their own analysis to find evidence of possible nerve agents.

Immediately prior to taking up the first of his full time judicial appointments Sir Wyn acted as leading counsel for the Secretary of State for the Home Department in appeals brought before the Special Immigration Appeals Commission by persons who had been detained on suspicion of engaging in international terrorism.

For example, the House of Lords did not consider prisoners to have Art 14 status (R (on the application of Clift) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] 1 AC 484); whereas the contrary view was taken by the ECtHR in Shelley v United Kingdom (2008) 46 EHRR SE16.

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recently wrote to chief secretaries of states and Union territories, urging them to take «necessary steps» to intensify contribution into Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY), flagship social security schemes launched by the Prime Minister in May 2015.