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The Latest Breaking News from the Home Office

UK outspends rest of Europe on housing asylum seekers by at least 40% a person

Exclusive: Report by aid campaign One finds costs now take up nearly a third of the official aid budget

The Guardian - UK

Home Office admits failings after Julian Assange’s friend dies in Belmarsh prison following deportation threat

Exclusive: Manoel Santos had lived in the UK for 20 years and was kept in high-security prison on immigration powers

The Independent UK

Vanessa Redgrave gives £4,000 to Bibby Stockholm legal fight

Actor’s donation enables fund to reach target in challenge to Home Office’s use of barge to house asylum seekers

The Guardian - UK

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Braverman’s claim about ethnicity of grooming gangs was false, regulator rules

Mail on Sunday issues correction over opinion piece by home secretary claiming ‘almost all’ child grooming gangs were British-Pakistani

The Guardian - UK

NHS nurses considering job offers in Canada as Home Office ‘risks worsening workforce crisis’ with visa fee hike

Increasing visa fees is ‘self defeating’ and ‘short sighted’, a doctors’ union warns

Evening Standard

The Home Office confirmed a the number of banning orders issued last season also increased

The Independent UK

More than 150 incidents of police body-camera misuse – report

Home Office says police use of technology must be ‘lawful, proportionate and justified’

The Independent UK

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Thursday briefing: Why Suella Braverman attacked refugee rights in Washington

In today’s newsletter: The British home secretary called the UN’s 1951 refugee convention ‘outdated’ and criticised multiculturalism (again). Why has she made this speech now?

The Guardian - UK

UK officials seeking to deport asylum seeker mistook him for three other men

Home Office officials rejecting Ranjit Singh’s application confused him with others of same name

The Guardian - UK

Elton John and Ian McKellen lead backlash over Braverman’s call to crack down on gay asylum seekers

Rocket Man issues rocket for home secretary as senior Tories warn Sunak: ‘Suella has lost us millions of pink votes’

The Independent UK

Families ‘face £28,000 in costs’ due to ‘unjustifiable’ Home Office visa and healthcare fee hike

Migrants in the UK are looking at jobs elsewhere while businesses face a ‘massive hit’

Evening Standard

Armed police need clarity about legal powers, Sunak says

PM backs review after officers hand in weapons over charging of marksman with Chris Kaba murder

The Guardian - UK

Suella Braverman's failure to clear asylum backlog causing 'immense suffering'

THE Home Secretary’s failure to clear the backlog of asylum seekers is leaving hundreds of thousands of people “stuck in limbo”, according to…

The National (Scotland)

Murdered police officer’s father urges Government to back posthumous medals bid

The campaign calls for an Elizabeth Cross medal to be given posthumously in recognition of emergency services workers killed in the line of duty.

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Bibby Stockholm receives all clear on legionella ahead of reopening to asylum seekers

The latest legionella results on board the barge came back as ‘satisfactory’

The Independent UK

Home Office told to stop all work on former RAF base set to house migrants

RAF Scampton is set to house 2,000 migrants under Home Office plans.

Evening Standard

Home Office used Gillette shaving report to assess migrant’s age, judge finds

Judge criticises Home Office approach to assessing Afghan asylum seeker’s age

The Guardian - UK

Fear of X-ray age tests in UK ‘may force child asylum seekers to flee’

Human rights groups criticise introduction of X-rays or bone scans to determine ages of asylum seekers

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The Guardian - UK

Bibby Stockholm gets ‘satisfactory’ test results for legionella

Results revealed in FoI data follow other tests that found unsatisfactory levels of the bacteria on barge

The Independent UK

Asylum seeker on hunger strike ‘denied’ emergency help at migrant centre

Footage has been released of the incident at the former RAF Wethersfield site in Essex

The Independent UK

Braverman pledges ‘unwavering focus’ for Windrush victims as working group ends

The Home Secretary said she wants to see all those affected by the scandal compensated.

The Independent UK

Bibby Stockholm: Government has done ‘very well’ on migrants barge project, insists Braverman

The floating accommodation has been out of use since August after people were evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria

The Guardian - UK

Home Office Windrush ‘transformation team’ formally disbanded

Campaigners reject justification that ‘significant progress’ has been made towards reform and describe news as insulting

The National (Scotland)

Three Scottish cities to apply for drug testing facilities, says minister

APPLICATIONS will be made for drug testing facilities in three Scottish cities, drugs policy minister Elena Whitham has said...

The National (Scotland)

Home Office spending ‘around £8m’ per day on housing asylum seekers in hotels

THE Home Office is paying “around £8 million” per day for asylum seekers to be placed in hotels.

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