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Home Office: Reviews

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) internal policy reviews, (b) independent reviews, (c) external reviews, (d) taskforces, (e) public consultations, (f) investigations and (g) other reviews their Department launched betwee

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Answering body: Home Office
Tabled: 14 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 16 Jan 2025
Answer: 22 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many (a) internal policy reviews, (b) independent reviews, (c) external reviews, (d) taskforces, (e) public consultations, (f) investigations and (g) other reviews their Department launched betwee
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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22 Jan 2025
Answer published
This Government has outlined its ambitions through the Plan for Change, which sets out an ambitious set of milestones - across the missions - for this Parliament.As the House would expect, Government continually reviews its work to ensure that it is deliv...

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