The Home Office’s explanation for not consulting on its ban on foreign care workers bringing family members to the UK was “unconvincing”, a Lords committee said adding that it had
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The Archbishop of Canterbury and Tory former Cabinet ministers have helped inflict the heaviest defeats Rishi Sunak has suffered in the Lords over his proposed Rwanda asylum law. The string
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Rishi Sunak has insisted his Rwanda deportation scheme is a “worthwhile investment” despite the public spending watchdog disclosing the cost of the policy could soar to half a billion pounds.
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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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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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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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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 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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Staff working with children and vulnerable adults in asylum accommodation in Northern Ireland have not undergone checks or training, a report has found. An inspection of contingency asylum accommodation for
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More than 200 threats of legal action have been made against the government over accommodating asylum seekers at a former RAF base, the High Court has been told. The government
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