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Keith Vaz

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Name: Keith Vaz

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

UK Home Office

Mr Bigs ‘are laughing at justice in their Jacuzzis’

Keith Vaz, chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, said he was amazed by figures showing that more than £500 million of confiscation orders imposed on criminals in the past five years remains unpaid.He said the scale of non-payment, revealed ... [Published London Evening Standard - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Keith Vaz, Criminal, UK Home Office

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Dead kids’ IDs “commonly” used by cops

BRITAIN: The use of dead children’s identities by undercover police officers was “common practice”, a chief constable investigating the matter has told MPs. Mick Creedon made the comment in a letter to Parliament’s home affairs committee.Mr Creedon is ... [Published Communist Party of Australia - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Keith Vaz, Mark Stone, Mark Kennedy

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Prisons privatisation delayed over tagging

Concerns over companies supplying electronic tags for prisoners have put on hold plans to privatise five prisons, it has been claimed.The government was looking to hand five prisons over to private contractors but this has been delayed while allegations ... [Published Public Service - May 21 2013]

Entities: privatise, Keith Vaz, Serco Group plc, Private Contractors

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Following the discovery of a company supplying halal lamb burgers that contained up to 50%

pork to a school, MP Keith Vaz has called for a full inquiry.FOLLOWING the discovery of a company supplying halal lamb burgers that contained up to 50 per cent pork to a school, Keith Vaz MP has called for a full inquiry.The Leicester East MP said: The ... [Published Eastern Eye - May 20 2013]

Entities: Keith Vaz, Ahmed Siddiqui, Leicester

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Hardwick quizzed by MPs about decision to suspend top cop

Two of Lincolnshire highest profile elected policing figures have been probed by MPs at a Home Affairs Committee meeting in Westminster.Police and crime commissioner for the county Alan Hardwick and Police and Crime Panel chairman Coun Roy Wootten were ... [Published Spalding Guardian - May 18 2013]

Entities: Alan Hardwick, Keith Vaz, Suspension, Crime, Peter Fahy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Serco Group plc

£700million bill for criminal tagging to be probed: Government admits it may have overpaid private firms for monitoring contract

G4S and Serco may have received too much taxpayers' moneyJustice Secretary Chris Grayling admits there are 'potential issues'Firms agree to cooperate with inquiry and pay back any money owed By Taxpayers may have been overcharged by millions of pounds ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 18 2013]

Entities: Serco Group plc, G4S Plc, Chris Grayling, Criminal

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 8 reports

Metropolitan Police undercover officers stealing identities of dead babies was “common practice"

But Chief Constable Mick Creedon revealed parents were still in the dark over whether their child’s identity was stolenUndercover police stole the identities of dead babies and used them to worm their way into political groups, it was admitted today.Chief ... [Published Mirror.co.uk - May 17 2013]

Entities: Keith Vaz, Jackal, Police

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 4 reports

Lincolnshire police and crime panel chair stands down

The embattled chair of Lincolnshire’s police and crime panel has resigned after admitting inadvertently giving false evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC).Ray Wootten, who is the first of the police and crime panel chairs to step down since ... [Published PoliceProfessional.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Crime, Alan Hardwick, Police, Peter Fahy, Home Affairs Select Committee

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Labour shifting stand on EU, claims Keith Vaz

London: Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz on Thursday said that the Labour party is shifting its stance on the European Union and is edging towards an in-out referendum.The party's former minister for Europe and chairman of the influential Home Affairs ... [Published zeenews.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Keith Vaz, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Referendum, European Union

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Keith Vaz claims Labour shift on EU

Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz today said that the Labour party is shifting its stance on the European Union and is edging towards an in-out referendum. ... [Published Business Standard India - May 16 2013]

Entities: Keith Vaz, European Union, Referendum

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel chairman to stand down after ‘farcical’ chief constable saga

The under-fire chairman of Lincolnshire's Police and Crime Panel is to stand down from his role next month in the wake of the suspended chief constable saga.Ray Wootten, who has only been in the role since it was created in November, has made the announcement ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]

Entities: Crime, Police, Alan Hardwick, Home Affairs Select Committee, Keith Vaz

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

PCC defends office costs to MPs

Suffolk's new police and crime commissioner has defended the costs of his office to MPs.Tim Passmore appeared before the Home Affairs select committee and was questioned about his £1.7m budget.Keith Vaz MP, committee chairman, suggested there had been ... [Published BBC - May 15 2013]

Entities: Keith Vaz, Police, Appointment

Quotes

Reacting to news of the delay, the home affairs committee chair, Labour's Keith Vaz, said: "if the government is concerned the public will not have confidence in the companies they have chosen, perhaps now is the time to reconsider their decision."

Prisons privatisation delayed over tagging [Published Public Service - May 21 2013]

"the em service contracts have previously been audited by the national audit office, which concluded that our service offered "good value for money to the taxpayer"." Keith Vaz, chairman of the home affairs select committee, said: 'The Home Affairs Select Committee has warned the Government that companies that have...

£700million bill for criminal tagging to be probed: Government admits it may have overpaid privat ... [Published Mail Online UK - May 18 2013]

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Mr Bigs ‘are laughing at justice in their Jacuz... [Published London Evening Standard - 2 hours ago]
Dead kids’ IDs “commonly” used by cops [Published Communist Party of Australia - 23 hours ago]
Prisons privatisation delayed over tagging [Published Public Service - May 21 2013]
Following the discovery of a company supplying ... [Published Eastern Eye - May 20 2013]
UK immigration policy: more than an enforcement... [Published Open Democracy - May 20 2013]
Hardwick quizzed by MPs about decision to suspe... [Published Spalding Guardian - May 18 2013]
Success and achievement honoured at British Ind... [Published Asian Image - May 18 2013]
£700million bill for criminal tagging to be pro... [Published Mail Online UK - May 18 2013]
Metropolitan Police undercover officers stealin... [Published Mirror.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Scale of Operation Herne revealed [Published PoliceProfessional.com - May 17 2013]
Police spies' use of dead children's identities... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 17 2013]
Police use of child IDs 'was common' [Published BBC - May 17 2013]
Met undercover unit used dead children’s IDs fo... [Published London Evening Standard - May 17 2013]
No answer on 'undercover police' relationship c... [Published itv.com - May 17 2013]
Dead children names used by police [Published Lancashire Telegraph - May 17 2013]
Private firms could have been overpaid for tagg... [Published Mail Online UK - May 17 2013]
Police use of dead kids ID's [Published itv.com - May 17 2013]
Conservative MP James Wharton champions bill to... [Published The Independent - May 16 2013]
Lincolnshire police and crime panel chair stand... [Published PoliceProfessional.com - May 16 2013]
Police panel chairman steps down [Published BBC - May 16 2013]
Labour shifting stand on EU, claims Keith Vaz [Published zeenews.com - May 16 2013]
Keith Vaz claims Labour shift on EU [Published Business Standard India - May 16 2013]
Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel chairman is... [Published Grimsby Telegraph - May 16 2013]
Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel chairman re... [Published The Lincolnite - May 16 2013]
Police chairman to step down next month [Published Horncastle News - May 16 2013]
Chairman of the Lincolnshire Police and Crime P... [Published This is Lincolnshire - May 16 2013]
Ed Miliband is edging towards a pledge on in-ou... [Published London Evening Standard - May 16 2013]
Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel chairman to... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 16 2013]
Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel chairman to... [Published Market Rasen Mail - May 16 2013]
PCC defends office costs to MPs [Published BBC - May 15 2013]

Blogs

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Read Guido’s Column in the Sun Today [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 12 2013] Guido shares a page with Nadine in today’s Sun. In Guido’s column: Ed Miliband told Guido a funny over carrot sticks and hummusPM on Chuka: “let’s get him”Nigel Farage’s unbelievably “bonkers” dinner party with Labour luvvies, celebs, heirs, heiresses ...
Vaz Spins Out of Control [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 10 2013] Keith Vaz’s masterclass in a photo op gone wrong on a playground roundabout this afternoon. The rough and tumble of politics… Via This is Leicestershire Tagged: Labour ...
Keith Vaz’s Outstanding Outsourcing Doubl... [Published Guy Fawkes' blog - May 09 2013] Moany Keith Vaz is cross about outsourcing of jobs from Westminster, to areas with lower levels of employment: Sad farewell to longstanding switchboard operators at HOC moved by Capita to Southampton. Next G4S will be asked to do the security #farce ...
Paris Brown 'too young' to advise? Of course not [Published Education: Mortarboard blog \| guardian.co.uk - Apr 11 2013] The case has unleashed a wave of distrust towards young people. Yet many are successfully playing key roles in organisations across the UK Paris Brown, chosen as Britain's first youth police crime commissioner, resigned after just seven days having ...
Paris Brown resigns: Teenager acts like teenage... [Published News » Politics - Apr 09 2013] I am shocked – shocked I tell you – that a 14-year-old might say something stupid on Twitter. Paris Brown, the 17-year-old who was appointed "youth police and crime commissioner" in Kent last week, has resigned, a few days after it was discovered that ...

Audio/Video

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Inside Story - Cybercrimes: The tip of the iceberg [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 25 2013]
VIDEO: Vaz: Trust in police undermined [Published BBC News Video - UK - Dec 30 2012]