MPs recommend tougher terror powers
News Article 3 July 2006
A committee of MPs has said that the maximum period terrorist suspects can be held without charge will have to rise beyond 28 days.
MPs reject new domestic violence 'sentencing'
News Article 28 June 2006
The Commons home affairs committee has said it is "inappropriate" to send people who commit domestic violence to therapy classes instead of jail.
Clarke defends foreign prisoners role
News Article 26 June 2006
Charles Clarke has defended his actions as the home secretary at the heart of the foreign prisoners scandal.
Asylum focus 'led to deportation failures'
News Article 12 June 2006
The political focus on asylum was one of the reasons why action to consider deporting foreign prisoners was not taken sooner, according to two former Home Office officials.
Immigration solution 'years away'
News Article 6 June 2006
It will take several years to solve the problems at one of the Home Office bodies responsible for the failure to consider deporting 1,019 foreign criminals, a top civil servant has admitted.
Home Office facing new crisis
Press Review 25 May 2006
Serious foreign offenders who have been captured during the past month have since been released on bail.
Reid attacks his own department
Press Review 24 May 2006
John Reid yesterday made a startling attack on the Home Office as he revealed that the department still did not know the whereabouts of hundreds of foreign prisoners who should have been considered for deportation.
Reid pledges major immigration changes
News Article 23 May 2006
Revealing that 85 serious foreign offenders who were not considered for deportation are still at large, John Reid has told MPs the Home Office's immigration division is "not fit for purpose".
Anger at new immigration revelations
News Article 17 May 2006
John Reid has admitted he has no exact figures for the number of illegal immigrants in the country, prompting claims that the government is "incompetent".
John Denham - Home affairs committee chairman
Interview 26 April 2006
Former Home Office minister John Denham talks to ePolitix.com about how the Iraq war radicalised young British Muslims.
Criticism of sentencing plan for young robbers
News Article 7 March 2006
A committee of MPs has come under fire for suggesting that juveniles who commit robberies should be able to cite "peer pressure" as a mitigating factor when being sentenced for their crime.
MPs call for tighter corporate killing law
News Article 20 December 2005
Two Commons committees have called for the government's draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill to be toughened up.
MPs to investigate case for 90-day detention
News Article 28 November 2005
MPs are to mount an inquiry into the case made by police to hold terror suspects for up to 90 days without trial.
Foreign criminals boosting prison population, says Clarke
Press Review 26 October 2005
Britain's prison population crisis is being fuelled by a large increase in foreign criminals, Charles Clarke said yesterday.
Clarke 'flexible' on 90 day detention
News Article 11 October 2005
The home secretary has indicated he could give ground on plans for detaining suspects without charge for three months.
