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24 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Government’s own immigration charge hitting NHS trusts with £15m in fees to use overseas staff

The NHS has been forced to pay out more than £15 million in immigration fees to the Government since 2017 so that the health service has enough specialist staff.

09 Aug 2020 Foreign affairs

Priti Patel calls for military help to stop migrants crossing English Channel

Priti Patel has called on the Royal Navy to help reduce the number of migrant boats crossing the English Channel.

05 Aug 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: Failure to toughen border measures made pandemic 'much worse' for UK, MPs say

A series of "critical errors" in the Government's approach to travellers entering the UK made the coronavirus pandemic much worse, a cross-party group of MPs has said.

04 Aug 2020 Home affairs

Home Office to end use of 'racist algorithm' for UK visa decisions in face of legal challenge by migrants' rights group

The Home Office is set to scrap the use of a controversial algorithm for sorting UK visa applications in the face of a legal challenge by migrants' rights campaigners.

Listen: Immigration minister Kevin Foster on the post-Brexit points-based system — PoliticsHome policy podcast, supported by Leidos

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15 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Listen: Immigration minister Kevin Foster on the post-Brexit points-based system — PoliticsHome policy podcast, supported by Leidos

In a policy special of the PoliticsHome podcast supported by Leidos, we spoke to Home Office minister Kevin Foster about the UK’s big post-Brexit immigration shake-up.

03 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Home Office problems left ‘vulnerable’ asylum seekers without access to doctor or schools for 86 days, watchdog finds

Hundreds of asylum seekers were left without access to a GP or schools for months after a Home Office programme to temporarily support and house them struggled to get going, the public spending watchdog has found.

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01 Jul 2020 Home affairs

Detail of EHRC review of ‘hostile environment’ policies published

The terms of reference have been published for a statutory assessment by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) of how the Home Office complied with equality law when developing, implementing and monitoring ‘hostile environment’ immigration measures.

28 Jun 2020 Political parties

Sir Mark Sedwill quits as Cabinet Secretary as Boris Johnson eyes major Whitehall shake-up

Sir Mark Sedwill is to step down as Britain’s top civil servant and national security chief in September, it has been confirmed, as Boris Johnson plans a major shake-up of Whitehall.

12 Jun 2020 Home affairs

Home Office does not know how many people facing migrant welfare curbs amid coronavirus pandemic, minister confirms

The Home Office does not have any estimate of the number of migrants subject to a wide-ranging ban on welfare support, despite warnings they face additional hardship during the coronavirus pandemic.

12 Jun 2020 Home affairs

Equalities watchdog to probe Home Office ‘hostile environment’ policy in wake of ‘shameful’ Windrush scandal

The UK’s equalities watchdog will investigate the Home Office’s “hostile environment” immigration policy in the wake of the Windrush scandal.

02 Jun 2020 Coronavirus

Government could replace coronavirus quarantine plans ‘within weeks’ amid backlash from MPs

The Government could rapidly shift away from its plan to quarantine all arrivals from the UK amid a mounting backlash from MPs, it has been reported.

22 May 2020 Coronavirus

Coronavirus: People arriving in UK must spend two weeks in quarantine or face £1,000 fine

People arriving in the UK must spend two weeks in quarantine or face fines of £1,000 to prevent new coronavirus cases from entering the country.

20 May 2020 Coronavirus

Families of care workers who die from coronavirus can now stay in UK after Home Office climbdown

The families of NHS care workers and cleaners who die on the coronavirus frontline will be allowed to stay in the UK after a major climbdown from the Home Office.

20 May 2020 Home affairs

Terror suspects could have movements restricted indefinitely under new laws

Terror suspects could have their movement restricted indefinitely under new laws put forward by ministers.

05 May 2020 Coronavirus

Just 300 passengers who arrived in UK from coronavirus hotspots quarantined out of 18 million, new figures show

Fewer than 300 of the 18 million who arrived in the UK from coronavirus hotspots in the three months before lockdown began were put into quarantine, new figures show.

28 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

EXCL Anger as Priti Patel stands by ‘mean and counterproductive’ migrant Universal Credit ban amid coronavirus crisis

Priti Patel has batted away calls to suspend “mean and counterproductive” rules that bar some migrants from accessing Universal Credit during the coronavirus crisis.

01 Apr 2020 Coronavirus

EXCL Boris Johnson urged to tear up rules stopping migrants claiming Universal Credit or risk coronavirus ‘tragedy’

Boris Johnson has been urged to rip up rules preventing thousands of migrants living in the UK from accessing benefits aimed at softening the blow of the coronavirus crisis.

31 Mar 2020 Coronavirus

Visas for NHS staff extended by a year to help tackle coronavirus outbreak

Overseas NHS staff will be handed a 12-month visa extension as part of the efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, the Home Office has announced.

30 Mar 2020 Coronavirus

How do you police a pandemic

Despite a shift in resources and duties, the police will rise to the multiple challenges posed by this unprecedented pandemic.

24 Mar 2020 Home affairs

EXCL Priti Patel urged to take Windrush compensation scheme out of Home Office hands to encourage victims to come forward

The Home Office "cannot be trusted" to run the scheme to compensate people wronged by the Windrush scandal and should hand it over to an independent body, Priti Patel has been warned.

19 Mar 2020 Home affairs

ANALYSIS: The Windrush report reveals a scandal decades in the making - and MPs of all stripes cannot ignore it

It's easy to become numb to the cliched language of Whitehall watchdogs - phrases like "not fit for purpose", and "lessons to be learned" crop up so often in official reviews that they can lose their impact.

19 Mar 2020 Home affairs

Priti Patel 'truly sorry' after damning report reveals 'profound institutional failure' led to Windrush scandal

Priti Patel has said she is "truly sorry" for the way the Home Office treated the Windrush generation after a damning report into the scandal accused the department of "a profound institutional failure" spanning decades.

01 Oct 2019 Home affairs

Home Office appoints Leidos UK to deliver transformation of its biometrics platform

Leidos, a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, has today been appointed by the UK Home Office to transition, operate and transform critical elements of the UK’s national biometrics systems in support of law enforcement, immigration services and border security.