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Windrush scandal victims got less compensation due to lack of legal advice funding, review finds

Study finds claimants who challenged payouts after taking advice received huge increases, in one case from £300 to £170,000

The Guardian - UK

Government ‘focused’ on tackling smuggling gangs after minister’s boats claim

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones said the majority of people crossing the Channel in small boats are ‘children, babies and women’.

Evening Standard

Home Office backs down on asylum refusal for female Afghan activist

Woman who risked life working for western government-backed projects can now stay on UK

The Guardian - UK

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Police leaders say they will struggle to fulfil Labour’s promise to recruit 13,000 officers

Projected £1.2bn police funding shortfall expected to grow after spending review outlined fall in Home Office spending power

The Guardian - UK

How will Rachel Reeves’s pledge to end asylum hotels work?

The government wants to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves pledges to end use of asylum hotels by end of this parliament

Home Office looks to former student accommodation to house migrants instead of hotels

The Independent UK

London restaurant featured in Netflix hit Black Doves loses licence after 'exploiting illegal workers'

Half of the restaurant’s workers were found to have been employed illegally in a Home Office raid last year

Evening Standard

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Home Office minister has ‘clocked’ asylum accommodation break clause next year

Different options to provide asylum accommodation are being piloted ahead of a break clause in contracts next year.

Evening Standard

UK Home Office Backs Down on Family Visa Salary Hike in Win for Migrant Families

A new report issued by the Home Office has warned against raising the family visa salary threshold, and has instead suggested lowering it by several thousand pounds.

International Business Times UK

Rachel Reeves forced ‘to make £5bn cuts’ to balance books after spending review

Exclusive: Chancellor set to unveil Labour’s spending plans on Wednesday but researchers warn she will need to make £5bn of cuts by 2028/29 — even before finding the cash to restore winter fuel payments to pensioners

The Independent UK

Family visa salary threshold should not be raised warns Home Office-ordered report

The minimum income to bring a family member from abroad to Britain should be lowered to £23,000 to £25,000, the Migration Advisory Committee suggested

Evening Standard

Family visa income threshold should not rise to skilled worker level – review

The Migration Advisory Committee said that approach would most likely conflict with international law.

Evening Standard

Investigation launched after deportee breaks free on Heathrow runway

Man apprehended after freeing himself from restraints and sprinting across runway at Terminal 2

The Guardian - UK

Winter fuel payments U-turn likely to lead to higher taxes or other welfare cuts, says IFS director – as it happened

Treasury says move to restore the funding for most pensioners will cost around £1.25bn

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Rachel Reeves in standoff over policing and council budgets days before spending review

Chancellor still at negotiating table on Sunday as Home Office demands more cash

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves strikes 11th hour deal with Angela Rayner to break cabinet civil war deadlock

Exclusive: The Treasury agrees a late deal with housing and local government department on Sunday evening, just days before chancellor publishes the spending review

The Independent UK

Revealed: Home Office pays migrants £53m to leave UK

Exclusive: Home Office said assisted voluntary returns are more cost-effective than funding accommodation for those awaiting enforced deportation

The Guardian - UK

‘Smash the gangs’: is Labour’s migration policy just a slogan?

The UK government is desperate to show it is preventing small boat crossings, but its PR-heavy approach may cause more problems with voters than it solves

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The Independent UK

Unions pile pressure on Reeves to avoid cuts and impose wealth taxes

Exclusive: The TUC has ratcheted up pressure on the government to introduce wealth taxes amid a growing expectation that the chancellor will unveil a swathe of spending cuts next week

The Independent UK

Government stalling in efforts to cut foreign aid spent on asylum seekers

The government has been accused of ‘robbing Peter to pay Paul’, with aid organisations claiming ministers are in danger of a ‘reckless repeat’ of the previous Conservative government

Evening Standard

Home Office plans to spend £2.2bn of foreign aid on asylum support this year

International rules allow countries to count first-year costs of supporting refugees as overseas development assistance.

Evening Standard

Labour struggling to slash 'unsustainable' foreign aid spending on asylum hotels, despite vow to end practice

The Government is spending £2.2 billion of overseas development funds to house migrants

Evening Standard

Inside Home Office immigration raids as over 6,000 people arrested in illegal migrant workers crackdown

Home Office targets nail bars, restaurants and caravan parks across the UK as arrests soar by over 50 per cent in a year

The Guardian - UK

UK taxpayers face extra costs as France plans Channel small boat interceptions

French government braces for legal challenges to new tactics, involving extra police, boats and drones

Evening Standard

Fei Er Cottage has failed to pay a £180,000 fine for hiring illegal workers, the Home Office said

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