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August – The British Home Office sends an agent to Nether Stowey to investigate Coleridge and Wordsworth who are suspected of being French spies.

Alessandro Santos

But he was denied a work permit by the Home Office because he had not made the minimum number of national team appearances required for players from outside the European Union and returned to Shimizu for the remainder of the season.

Ama Sumani

In the wake of public criticism, Home Office representative Lin Homer defended its actions, stating that Sumani's case, while difficult, was not exceptional.

Barlow at Large

Johns left Softly, Softly for good in 1972, but returned for a further series of Barlow at Large in the following year, Barlow having gone on full-time secondment to the Home Office.

Brad Guzan

On August 1, 2008, Guzan was granted a work permit by the Home Office, allowing him to complete his move to Aston Villa.

Cardiff Gaol

After the Home Office took over responsibility for corrections in the Prison Act 1877, the prison was expanded and the gaol finally closed.

Clay Pigeon Shooting Association

Founded in 1928, it is recognised by Sports England, the Department of the Environment, the Home Office, the Police etc. and it is a constituent member of the International Clay Pigeon Shooting Council of Great Britain and Ireland and is represented on The World Forum on the Future of Sport Shooting Activities through the British Shooting Sports Council.

David S. Wall

He has a sustained track record of conducting sole and collaborative research projects for the EU, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield, Home Office, Law Society and many others.

Donald Banks

In 1942, he was approached by the Home Office to see if anything could be done to get over a reassuring message to the islanders, as it was known that, despite the fact that German authorities had banned radios, that the BBC was still being picked up secretly in Guernsey and Jersey.

Dorset Yacht Co Ltd v Home Office

On 21 September 1962, ten borstal trainees were working on Brownsea Island in the harbour under the control of three officers employed by the Home Office.

Dunning baronets

He was Inspector of Constabulary at the Home Office between 1912 and 1930.

Emergency Planning College

The college known as The Hawkhills is located at Easingwold near York in England, and was a private country house, later a police college and Civil Defence Corps training facility before becoming the emergency planning college for the Home Office's F6 Emergency Planning Division.

Firefighting

Following work with Warrington Fire Research Consultants (FRDG 6/94) his terminology and concepts were adopted officially by the UK fire services, and are now referred to throughout revised Home Office training manuals (1996–97).

Government Equalities Office

The department was subsequently merged into the Home Office, before transferring to the DCMS on 4 September 2012 following a Cabinet reshuffle.

Government Offices Great George Street

An aerial shot of the building is used in the TV series Spooks to accompany a sub-title portraying it as the Home Office - therefore serving as stand-in to match the distinctly period appearance of the fictitious Home Office accommodation interiors the series uses, rather than the far more modern real Home Office headquarters at 2 Marsham Street.

Hollyoaks: The Morning After the Night Before

The series was the idea of the Home Office and produced by series producer of Hollyoaks Lucy Allan, in order to tell the important message of binge drinking and the dangers of it.

Home Office

Damian Green works between the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.

Joan Ryan

From 5 May 2006 to 29 June 2007, Ryan was Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for nationality, citizenship and immigration at the Home Office, succeeding Andy Burnham.

Jonathan Djanogly

He served on the Trade and Industry Select Committee from 2001, was promoted to the frontbench by Michael Howard as an opposition spokesman on Home Affairs in 2004, and served as Shadow Solicitor General between May 2004 and May 2010.

Louis de Soissons

Other important early projects included the Home Office and Duchy of Cornwall Estates in London, where the future Edward VIII was the effective client and the Nag's Head Estate in Bethnal Green, London, E2 which was one of the few private "Slum Clearance" projects undertaken by a private landlord.

Marjorie Graves

She attended the post World War I Paris Peace Conference, before transferring to the Intelligence Department of the Home Office.

National Statistician

Following the implementation of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the General Register Office continues to be part of a ministerially-accountable department, becoming a part of the Identity & Passport Service in the Home Office and the post of Registrar-General is now held by its head.

Norman Baker

In the October 2013 reshuffle, Baker was appointed to the Home Office as Minister of State where he will oversee issues relating to national security, replacing fellow Liberal Democrat Jeremy Browne.

Norman Brennan

There were those in the higher echelons of the Police Federation, the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) and the Home Office who were not impressed with a frontline police officer who was so outspoken and seen by rank and file officers to be doing the job of their official organisations.

Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism

The Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism (OSCT) is an executive directorate of the Home Office responsible for leading the work on counter-terrorism in the UK, working closely with the police and security services.

Operational instruments of the Royal Observer Corps

Composed mainly of civilian spare-time volunteers, ROC personnel wore a Royal Air Force (RAF) style uniform and latterly came under the administrative control of RAF Strike Command and the operational control of the Home Office.

Parents and Abducted Children Together

In August 2007, Missing People and PACT wrote to Tony McNulty MP (Minister of State at the Home Office) to highlight the serious limitations in the department's annual statistical series ‘’Crime in England and Wales’’.

Philippe Coutinho

On 26 January 2013, Liverpool reportedly agreed a £8.5m fee with Internazionale for Coutinho, although at that time he was almost a Chelsea player, he was also linked with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester United and Manchester City, but the player chose Liverpool and was soon pending a medical exam and a work permit from the Home Office as he did not have enough international appearances to qualify automatically.

Radio teleswitch

The technique won the Queen's award for technology, while its application for controlling consumer tariffs and loads was approved by the Home Office.

RAF Oakington

In 2000 the station domestic area was leased to the Home Office, and converted for use as Oakington Immigration Reception Centre until November 2010.

Register office

Set up by Act of Parliament in 1837, the statutory registration service is overseen by the Registrar General as part of the General Register Office (now part of the Home Office Identity and Passport Service) but provided locally by the county or unitary local authority.

Ronnie Flanagan

Sir Ronald Flanagan, GBE, QPM, (born 25 March 1949 in Belfast) was the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom excluding Scotland.

RTTNews

Due to the nature of this business, it favors the home office on-the-road style of wireless (4G, Mobile WiMAX, LTE (telecommunication), CDMA and MetroPCS) ubiquitous work place.

Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet

Grey's first tenure at the Home Office notably saw him deal with relief efforts to the victims of the Irish Potato Famine and trying to subdue the Irish rebellion of 1848.

Software Publishing Corporation

Earlier that year, Allegro had purchased Serif Inc, which produced publishing and graphics software for the SOHO market, including PagePlus Home/Office 95, PagePlus 3.0 and DrawPlus 2.0, as well as a variety of clipart and font collections.

Specialist Firearms Officer

The usage of firearms by the police is covered by statute (such as the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and Human Rights Act 1998), policy (such as the Home Office Code of Practice on Police use of Firearms and Less Lethal Weapons and the ACPO Manual of Guidance on Police Use of Firearms) and common law.

Syd Dernley

He was a welder by trade, but was appointed assistant executioner by the Home Office in 1949, and participated in 20 hangings until he was replaced in 1954.

Timeline of mass migration to post-war Europe

In UK, according to The Daily Telegraph, a leaked secret memo reveals Home Office officials have changed guidelines in order to grant indefinite leave to remain to 40,000 illegal immigrants because it is going to be too difficult to remove them.

Traffik

Bill Paterson as Jack Lithgow, a Scottish Home Office minister in the United Kingdom government engaged in combating heroin importation from Pakistan.

William Billington

He was on the Home Office list from 1902 to 1905 and had participated in hangings starting in 1899.


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