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The number of asylum seekers seeking refuge in the UK rose by 5% in the first three months of 2006.
The largest number came from Zimbabwe - 755, up 96% on the previous quarter.
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Mr Reid is facing MPs over a series of scandals in the Home Office
Home Secretary John Reid has damned his department as "not fit for purpose" with "inadequate" leadership, management systems and processes.
He made the assessment as he was grilled by MPs about a series of recent scandals at the Home Office.
"I share with you and probably also the public the frustration at our failures," he said.
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Tory MPs are demanding a public apology from the Labour Party after it emerged members, including ministers, took part in an auction for a copy of the Hutton report into the death of Dr David Kelly which was autographed by Cherie Blair.
According to a Commons motion tabled by Peterborough's Stewart Jackson, the event took place at the Arts Club in Mayfair last week and raised £400 for party coffers.
The motion says the event was "in appalling bad taste, arrogant and crassly insensitive in seeking to make money, albeit indirectly, through hawking, as a novelty item, an official Government report into the death of a public servant".
It "regrets the distress caused to the family and friends of the late Dr Kelly; and calls on the Labour Party to apologise for such tasteless and offensive conduct and to donate the money raised to an appropriate charity".
The number of asylum seekers seeking refuge in the UK rose by 5% in the first three months of 2006.
The largest number came from Zimbabwe - 755, up 96% on the previous quarter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5007148.stm
Mr Reid is facing MPs over a series of scandals in the Home Office
Home Secretary John Reid has damned his department as "not fit for purpose" with "inadequate" leadership, management systems and processes.
He made the assessment as he was grilled by MPs about a series of recent scandals at the Home Office.
"I share with you and probably also the public the frustration at our failures," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4488146.stm
Tory MPs are demanding a public apology from the Labour Party after it emerged members, including ministers, took part in an auction for a copy of the Hutton report into the death of Dr David Kelly which was autographed by Cherie Blair.
According to a Commons motion tabled by Peterborough's Stewart Jackson, the event took place at the Arts Club in Mayfair last week and raised £400 for party coffers.
The motion says the event was "in appalling bad taste, arrogant and crassly insensitive in seeking to make money, albeit indirectly, through hawking, as a novelty item, an official Government report into the death of a public servant".
It "regrets the distress caused to the family and friends of the late Dr Kelly; and calls on the Labour Party to apologise for such tasteless and offensive conduct and to donate the money raised to an appropriate charity".
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