Articles tagged with Home Affairs Committee on Civil Service World

01 Feb 2024 Justice & Home Affairs

Cleverly: Asylum claims build-up is 'not a backlog' and there's no target to tackle it

Home secretary tells MPs 94,000-strong caseload is a "queue"

14 Dec 2023 Finance

Watchdog to probe Rwanda scheme costs – as legal bill tops £2m

Committee chairs slam "extreme lack of respect" from Home Office in handling of correspondence on costs

11 Dec 2023 Justice & Home Affairs

Home Office drops modern slavery support measures over 'viability and funding'

Charities accuse government being “no longer committed to protecting victims of modern slavery”

29 Nov 2023 Justice & Home Affairs

Home Office vetoes MPs' request to attend immigration inspection

Request to accompany borders watchdog was denied to "preserve the independence of the inspectorate", select committee told

31 Aug 2023 Health & Social Care

MPs demand closer cross-departmental working on drugs

Policy should be made jointly between DHSC and Home Office, report argues

20 Apr 2016 HR

FDA chief Dave Penman: committee chair was "grandstanding" over Olly Robbins row

Union general secretary sticks up for the Home Office second perm sec after Home Affairs Committee grilling

19 Apr 2016 Foreign Affairs

Theresa May steps in after Home Affairs Committee row with Olly Robbins

Theresa May writes to the Home Affairs Committee chair over Border Force budget, after MPs order second permanent secretary Olly Robbins to face a second evidence session

14 Apr 2016 Justice & Home Affairs

MPs recall Home Office’s Olly Robbins over “unsatisfactory” Border Force evidence

Home Affairs select committee demands department’s second permanent secretary returns to answer Border Force budget questions

13 Apr 2016 HR

Home Office’s Olly Robbins excused from select committee after “unsatisfactory” answers on Border Force funding

Home Affairs Committee chair Keith Vaz repeatedly questions Robbins on Border Force funding