Home Office

The home secretary admits the government is unlikely to meet its pledge to cut net migration to the “tens of thousands” by the general election.

A damning report finds “widespread or serious failures” that could result in children being “harmed or at risk of harm”.

David Cameron tells parliament that police will have temporary new powers to seize passports of terror suspects at the UK border and to stop British-born suspected extremists from returning to the UK.

Detainees at immigration detention centres across the UK are working for as little as £1 an hour, carrying out work that could potentially save private contractors millions of pounds each year.

Trying to “friend” victims of crime, uploading inappropriate images of colleagues and making racist comments: hundreds of police officers are investigated for their behaviour on social media.

Passport Office workers strike in protest at what they claim is a desperate shortage of staff. One family tells of their wait to see if they must cancel their holiday because of the industrial action.

Two MPs, Tom Watson and David Davis, are to sue the government for introducing “ridiculous” emergency legislation allowing police and security services access to people’s phone and internet records.

The home secretary is asked if she knew that Sir Michael Havers, Dame Butler-Sloss’s late brother, tried to persuade Geoffrey Dickens not to name someone whom he considered to be a paedophile.

The Home Office is appointing a senior legal figure to carry out a fresh review into how a dossier alleging paedophile activity at Westminster in the 1980s was handled by the department.

Home Secretary Theresa May apologises for delays in processing passport applications and insisted the government is doing all it can to deal with the situation.

MPs warn “tens of thousands” of people face having their summers ruined because of delays in passport applications, but the home secretary says more resources will help deal with the issue.

As raids on illegal workers are launched at hundreds of businesses across the country, campaigners are using leaked government documents to warn those being targeted.