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Home Office

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HeadquartersLondon
United Kingdom
FoundedUnited Kingdom
Subsidiary HM Passport Office
Officeholders Brandon Lewis
Dominic Raab
Priti Patel
Jurisdiction United Kingdom
England and Wales
PredecessorsNational School of Government
National Policing Improvement Agency
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About Home Office


The Home Office is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order. As such it is responsible for policing in England and Wales, fire and rescue services in England, and visas and immigration and the Security Service.

Chris Mason: Ministers in new bid to reduce immigration

Chris Mason: Ministers in new bid to reduce immigration
Dec 4,2023 7:11 am

... I am told relations between the Home Office and Downing Street are considerably improved since the sacking of former Home Secretary Suella Braverman...

Muriel McKay's daughter urges Met to let mother's killer find body

Muriel McKay's daughter urges Met to let mother's killer find body
Dec 2,2023 3:31 am

... She said the Home Office had delegated matters to the Met, who did not seem interested...

Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further

Pontins: Former holiday park giant shrinks further
Dec 1,2023 12:21 pm

... Following speculation, the Home Office has clarified that the closed parks to house asylum seekers...

Belton House: Inquiry continues into country house assault death

Belton House: Inquiry continues into country house assault death
Dec 1,2023 8:41 am

... " Part of our investigation is around establishing the exact cause of death, which will be done following a formal Home Office post mortem examination at some point next week, " a force spokesperson said...

Asylum seekers: Home Office says more than 17,000 are missing

Asylum seekers: Home Office says more than 17,000 are missing
Nov 29,2023 10:01 am

...By Callum May & Suzanne LeighBBC NewsHome Office officials have admitted they do not know the whereabouts of more than 17,000 asylum seekers whose claims have been discontinued...

UK net migration in 2022 revised up to record 745,000

UK net migration in 2022 revised up to record 745,000
Nov 23,2023 9:21 am

... Home Office figures, also published on Thursday, showed hotel use reached a record high in September - despite a slight fall in the asylum backlog...

Households to be £1,900 poorer, says think tank

Households to be £1,900 poorer, says think tank
Nov 23,2023 4:21 am

... The chancellor managed to make these cuts at the expense of not raising public spending in line with the pace of general price rises, meaning departments such as justice, local government and the Home Office face a £17bn budget cut by 2027-28, it added...

Just Stop Oil: Rishi Sunak defends 'severe' jail sentences

Just Stop Oil: Rishi Sunak defends 'severe' jail sentences
Nov 21,2023 1:21 pm

... The Home Office said it had " responded" to the special rapporteur s letter...

Novak Djokovic: Australia says tennis star given no visa assurances

Nov 21,2023 8:41 am

Novak Djokovic was given no assurances that a medical exemption would allow him into Australia, lawyers fighting to deport the tennis star have argued.

The Court filing by lawyers for the Australian government also reveal Djokovic, 34, is unvaccinated.

Australia's Covid border rules ban non-double vaccinated foreigners from entering, unless they have a medical exemption from having the jabs.

Djokovic's legal team argue a recent infection gives him a valid exemption.

The Serbian Tennis Player flew into Melbourne last week, hoping to defend his Australian Open title.

But instead he has been held in an immigration detention centre as his lawyers prepare to appeal against a decision by Australia's federal government to cancel his visa.

The case is due to go before a judge on Monday. Tennis Australia has said it needs to know by Tuesday if he will be allowed to play, as it has to schedule his matches for The Tournament , which begins 17 January.

On Saturday, arguing that their client fulfilled the criteria for a vaccine exemption certificate because of a recent Covid infection, which was confirmed by a PCR test on 16 December.

But in Sunday's court filing, lawyers for Australia's Home Office dismissed this as a valid reason.

" There is no suggestion that the applicant had 'acute major medical illness' in December 2021. All he has said is that he tested positive for COVID-19. This is not the same, " it said, adding there was " no such thing as an assurance of entry by a non-citizen into Australia".

It also said that " it is common ground" between the two parties that " the applicant is unvaccinated".

Djokovic has previously said he is opposed to vaccination, but never said openly whether he had had the vaccine.

In Australia, the news he had been granted a medical exemption was met with anger from citizens who have been living under some of The World 's strictest Covid rules.

Those controls have separated families, and meant people missed funerals, births and weddings. Now that More Than 90% of Australia's over-16 population are vaccinated some rules have been relaxed. However, Some People still cannot travel interstate or globally because of current measures.

" I think it's a disgrace, " Melbourne resident Christine Wharton told ABC earlier This Week . " We've all done The Right thing, we've all gone out and got our jabs and our boosters and we have someone that has come from overseas and all of a sudden he's been exempt and can play. "



Source of news: bbc.com

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