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HMRC to crack down on “tax avoidance” by residential care providers through use of VAT grouping structures
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Hoarding tenant fails in High Court challenge to grant of possession order in favour of social landlord
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Home Affairs Committee calls on licensing authorities to demand improvement measures at venues with poor record for spiking
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Home building body calls for urgent investment to avoid housing delivery collapse
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Home Counties housing association to set up £2m legal panel
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Home Office abandons plan to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire village following council judicial review threat
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Home Office algorithm for detecting ‘sham marriages’ breaches public sector equality duty and GDPR rules, pre-action letter claims
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Home Office and city council facing legal challenge over age assessments at Kent Intake Unit
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Home Office approach to accommodating asylum seekers unlawful, High Court rules
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Home Office consults on making pandemic alcohol licensing changes permanent
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Home Office continuing works at ex-airfield intended for asylum seeker accommodation in breach of stop notice, council claims
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Home Office directs 29 local authorities to provide care placements for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
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Home Office drops controversial plan to accommodate asylum seekers on airfield
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Home Office facing fresh legal action over special development order used to house asylum seekers at RAF base
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Home Office facing fresh legal challenge over new asylum seeker site
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Home Office facing judicial review challenge over decision to require controlled drugs licence to carry out festival drugs testing
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Home Office has “segregated” asylum seekers at airfield, letter before claim argues
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Home Office has ended contract with Hove hotel where unaccompanied asylum-seeking children went missing, city council reveals
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Home Office hit with enforcement notice over works at RAF base being used to house asylum seekers
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