Priti presses Immigration Minister to answer Wethersfield questions
Witham MP Priti Patel has pressed the Immigration Minister to answer questions about the length of time the Government is planning to use the Wethersfield site for and over the funding being provided to local authorities. Following reports over the summer that the Home Office was planning to use the …
Home Office ‘evasive’ on Wethersfield asylum plans
Witham MP Priti Patel has called on the Government to be transparent and clarify their plans for the length of time they expect the Wethersfield site to be used for asylum accommodation, following reports this weekend that the Home Office is planning to use the site for five years. The …
Rishi Sunak under mounting pressure to speed up law to protect venues against terror attacks
Rishi Sunak is under mounting pressure to bring forward promised protections against terror attacks in venues and public places. The mother of Manchester Arena victim Martyn Hett, Figen Murray, has been campaigning for a law in his name for four years, with the backing of victims of terrorism, former senior …
Priti Patel blasts government’s ‘secretive’ five-year plan to house asylum seekers on RAF base
Former home secretary Priti Patel has accused the government of being “secretive about its intentions” to house asylum seekers on a former military base. Ministers claim that accommodating 1,700 migrants at RAF Wethersfield in Essex will be cheaper than hotels, but a leaked Home Office memo showed that “value for …
Small boats crisis won’t be solved without a clampdown on lefty lawyers, says Priti Patel
Former Home Secretary Priti Patel has demanded that the Government has “a clampdown on lefty lawyers” who are gaming the system to prevent Britain from tackling the small boats crisis across the Channel. Ms Patel, who was Boris Johnson’s Home Secretary, has already run into problems from leftwing activist lawyers who prevented her Rwanda …
Wethersfield health concerns ignored by Home Office
Witham MP Priti Patel has called on the Home Office to stop any further asylum seeker arrivals at Wethersfield until they address concerns about health screening arrangements. Since asylum seekers first moved onto the site earlier this month, there have been reports of scabies and TB among the residents, with …
Priti writes to Home Secretary on Wethersfield
Priti recently wrote to the Home Secretary and the Immigration Minister regarding a number of unanswered questions over their plans for a large scale asylum accomodation centre at Wethersfield in the Braintree district. Local service providers are frustrated by the lack of clear information coming from the Home Office about …
Crime stats show the importance of the Offensive Weapons Act
This short film about the Offensive Weapons Act demonstrates the Government’s and Priti Patel’s strong commitment to tacking the very serious issues affecting law and order in this country. Too many young lives have been lost to the scourge of knife crime. Today’s crime stats show the importance of the …
Priti confirms the details of the introduction of new police officers across the country at this link
Priti confirms the details of the introduction of new police officers across the country at this link. We are moving forward. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/home-office-announces-first-wave-of-20000-police-officer-uplift?fbclid=IwAR13RFaSdOz3ct66hjoCecP1etoQurm5mTdgXvyAwhoIwhAL3xHT-ga025g