Health and care visa numbers five times higher than when route was introduced in 2021
The number of people coming to the UK on a health and care visa is more than five times what it was when the route was introduced three years ago,
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Watchdog warns Rwanda scheme cost could cost £500m as Labour brand plan ‘national scandal’
The cost of Rishi Sunak’s troubled Rwanda asylum scheme could soar to half a billion pounds, plus hundreds of thousands more for each deportee, an investigation by the public spending
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Home Office pilot that put ankle tags on migrants ‘breached data protection law’
A Home Office pilot scheme to place ankle tags on up to 600 migrants on immigration bail to track their location breached UK data protection law, a watchdog has said.
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Rishi Sunak’s vow to clear asylum backlog caused ‘perverse’ decisions to be made – report
The Government’s desire to clear a backlog of asylum seeker cases led to “perverse” decisions being made, a report found. In December 2022, Rishi Sunak pledged to “abolish” a 92,000-strong
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Border security neither ‘effective nor efficient’ as watchdog slams Home Office in series of reports
Border security at UK airports is neither “effective nor efficient”, the immigration watchdog warned as he described a Home Office “culture of defensiveness” in a series of reports produced before
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Surge in number of people sleeping rough in England ‘source of national shame’
The number of people sleeping rough in England rose by 27% in a year, with charities branding the statistics a “source of national shame”. There were 3,898 rough sleepers on
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MPs told to ‘act, not mourn’, as names of women killed by men last year read out
Labour MP Jess Phillips has read out a list of names of women killed by men in the last year, the ninth year she has carried out what she called
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Doctor, 63, jailed over sexual relationship with vulnerable female patient
A GP who had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable patient has been jailed for two years and two months. Dr Francis Bailey, of Lyvelly Gardens, Peterborough, pursued the young
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Dame Esther Rantzen makes fresh call for assisted dying vote after MPs’ report
Dame Esther Rantzen has made a fresh call for a debate and vote on legalising assisted dying as a report warned that the Government must consider what to do if
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Abuse inquiry into events which spanned decades at former detention centre
An investigation has been launched into what the authorities knew about the large-scale abuse of young detainees which spanned decades at a detention centre. The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO)
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