The official investigation into the relaxation of border checks last year found confusion, poor record-keeping and ambiguous instructions were rife in the UKBA and border force staff were acting without ministerial approval. John Vine, the independent...

Office declined to confirm this, saying only that legislation is on the cards. "We will legislate as soon as parliamentary time allows to ensure that the use of communications data is compatible with the Government's approach to civil liberties," a Home...

He had not been dealt an easy hand: it was still unclear whether Maudling might return to government and, if so, in what capacity; in the event, he did not. Moreover, Carr went to the Home Office under a strong Tory law-and-order mandate from the 1970...

"There was no ministerial authorisation for this activity," Mrs May said. "The report finds that Operation Savant, as it was called, was potentially discriminatory and unlawful. "The Home Office Permanent Secretary is undertaking a review of this...

The prime minister said there was clear... Once called "Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe," 52-year-old Abu Qatada first entered Britain in 1993, claiming asylum from torture from his native Jordan.... Home Office minister James Brokenshire...

Mrs May will make a Commons statement setting out the conclusions of the probe and what action the Government intends to take in response, the Home Office said. Labour said it expects the report by John Vine, the independent chief inspector of the UK...

He has launched a £135,000 constructive dismissal claim against the Home Office. The internal investigations into the Brodie Clark affair were last week blamed by the British Airports Authority for delaying the introduction of a £8m "e-gates" scheme at...

1974 restricts the request for criminal-records information to a limited number of positions, which does not by any stretch of the imagination include tree surgeons or burger-van operators. The government’s shift in vetting policy is very welcome. There...

06:06 ET One man has been charged with assaulting Daniel Stringer-Price Greater Manchester Police's chief constable says he may seek to ban a march by the English Defence League (EDL) over fears it could spark unrest. Peter Fahy is to meet Tameside...

In July 2009, Deputy High Court Judge Sir Geoffrey Grigson stayed the prosecution, at Newcastle Crown Court, on the grounds of abuse of process. The court heard a recording system officers used to monitor interviews at Consett Police Station breached...

Patient care still comes a poor second. GP's becoming millionaires was the fault of Dr. John Reid who in his overconfident opportunist moment told the world the Home Office was also not fit for purpose, bodged up more than he improved things then...

Helen, the Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, said she lays on tea and home-made cakes to the best team in her department each month as part of a drive to help civil servants get to know their leaders. "People like leaders to be visible. Genuine...

Wood of San Angelo, a representative for Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, recently returned from a special 'Sure Start' career training school held at the fraternal benefit society's Home Office in Omaha, Neb. , during January. The course...

Staff are told they are doing a good job over afternoon tea with Dame Helen Ghosh, who has admitted she even bakes the treats herself - with a little help from Domestic Goddess Nigella Lawson, whose recipe has become her 'speciality'.

It looks like the Home Office is setting out to leapfrog China and gain the UK an unenviable position as the most monitored society in history. The automatic recording and tracing of everything done online by anyone - of almost all our communications...

Exerting more control over British public’s communication via social media is a preventative measure taken by the British government to spy on people and limit their access to the means of communication. The Telegraph revealed that Britain’s Home...

Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said: 'This would be a systematic effort to spy on all of our digital communications. 'No state in history has been able to gather the level of information proposed,' he said to The Sunday Times.

The Home Office payout which is believed to be the first of its kind included £1million legal costs. The case involved girls and boys, including 25 aged 14 to 16, some of them ­torture and rape victims. The UK Border Agency now uses independent ­social...

Facing claims that it has so far failed to get a grip on the issue, the FA will meet tomorrow and is expected to launch a new strategy to engage with the lesbian and gay community. Earlier this month Lynne Featherstone, a Home Office minister,...