In 1998, during debate on a Succession to the Crown Bill, Junior Home Office Minister Lord Williams of Mostyn informed the House of Lords that the Queen had " no objection to the Government's view that in determining the line of succession to the throne, daughters and sons should be treated in the same way ".

In 1995, she joined the Home Office as Minister of State for Prisons and visited every prison in Britain.

After his return to England from India in April 1784, Phillip remained in close contact with Townshend, now Lord Sydney, and the Home Office Under Secretary, Evan Nepean.

Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.

Conservatives offered Thorpe the Home Office if he would join a coalition government with Heath.

This combination of events, coupled with an ongoing decline in British military and economic support to the region as the Home Office favoured newer colonial endeavours in Africa and elsewhere, led to a call among Maritime politicians for a conference on Maritime Union, to be held in early September 1864 in Charlottetown-chosen in part because of Prince Edward Island's reluctance to give up its jurisdictional sovereignty in favour of uniting with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single colony.

Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.

" MI5, the intelligence department of the Home Office, noted: " It is evident from his recent writings – ' The Lion and the Unicorn ' – and his contribution to Gollancz's symposium The Betrayal of the Left that he does not hold with the Communist Party nor they with him.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

This suggestion met with some support from the British Home Office.

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* The Early English Trade Unions: Documents from Home Office Papers in the Public Record Office by A. Aspinall

Category: United Kingdom Home Office designated terrorist groups

When an individual is leaving the UK with an amount of Methadone that exceeds 500mg, a Home Office Export Licence is required which should be arranged by the prescriber.

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

While the Office for National Statistics and others describe the United Kingdom as a " nation state ", others, including a then Prime Minister, describe it as a " multinational state ", and the term Home Nations is used to describe the four national teams that represent the four nations of the United Kingdom ( England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales ).

Princetown is the most deprived ward in Devon, as when the Home Office changed its rules on where prison officers should live, staff moved out of the town and much poor-quality housing became available, which was then offered to the disabled, the unemployed and one parent families.

When Wilson re-entered government in 1974 Jenkins returned to the Home Office, but, increasingly disenchanted by the swing to the left of the Labour Party, he chose to leave British politics in 1976 and was appointed President of the European Commission in 1977, serving until 1981: he was the first and to date only British holder of this office.

Once Jenkins took office he immediately set about reforming the operation and organisation of the Home Office.

This uses a national IT system developed for major crime enquiries by all UK forces, called Home Office Large Major Enquiry System, more commonly referred to by its acronym, HOLMES ( which recognises the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes ).

As the situation escalates and events transpire, Sheffield City Council is directed by the Home Office to assemble an emergency operations team, which establishes itself in a makeshift bomb shelter in the basement of the Town Hall.

They also run under clearly defined Home Office rules.

The British government agreed to offer the islands their own representation in the British House of Commons, with the Home Office taking over responsibility for Maltese affairs from the Colonial Office.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

Windows Home Server 2011 is considered a " major release ".

Home Insurance Building in Chicago, United States was considered a skyscraper when it was built in 1884, but it had only ten storeys.

For example, Norman Davies wrote " Armia Krajowa ( Home Army ), the AK, which could fairly claim to be the largest of European resistance "; Gregor Dallas wrote " Home Army ( Armia Krajowa or AK ) in late 1943 numbered around 400000, making it the largest resistance organization in Europe "; Mark Wyman wrote " Armia Krajowa was considered the largest underground resistance unit in wartime Europe ".

When a third water tower was built next to the Okemah, Oklahoma set of Hot and Cold towers, the town briefly considered naming it " Running ", but eventually decided to use " Home of Woody Guthrie ".

Peel was considered one of the rising stars of the Tory party, first entering the cabinet in 1822 as Home Secretary.

Journalist Stewart Home, who favored the " Nashists " and considered Debord a " mystic, an idealist, a dogmatist and a liar " wrote that while the 2nd Situationist International sought to challenge the separation of art and politics from everyday life, Debord and the so-called ' specto-situationists ' sought to concentrate solely on theoretical political aims.

Salford's case, however, was considered favourably by the Home Secretary, William Joynson-Hicks, MP for a neighbouring constituency of Manchester.

Newsweeks David Ansen considered The Voyage Home not only the most light-hearted of the movie franchise, but the most true in spirit to the original television series.

Residents of the newly formed borough had sought to disassociate themselves from the Overbrook County Insane Asylum and the Newark City Home ( a reform school ), as well as from the settlement of Cedar Grove, which was considered a settlement of farmers.

In 1990, Home Secretary David Waddington ruled that " life should mean life " for Hindley ( who had originally been told by earlier Home Secretaries and High Court judges that she would have to serve a minimum of 25 and then 30 years before being considered for parole ), as did the next three home secretaries.

He had been banned from entering the country by the Home Office and his entry and presence in the country was therefore considered illegal.

The hit single " I'm Your Captain ( Closer to Home )", from the album Closer to Home, also released in 1970, was considered stylistically representative of Terry Knight and the Pack's recordings.

Immigration Adjudicators considered appeals against decisions made by Immigration Officers, entry clearance officers and the Home Secretary, with permanent centres in Islington in inner London, Hatton Cross, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow.

Home education is often considered synonymous with homeschooling.

Redevelopment was considered, but protests from the Covent Garden Community Association in 1973 prompted the Home Secretary, Robert Carr, to give dozens of buildings around the square listed-building status, preventing redevelopment.

None of this prevented Lord Halifax being considered for the premiership in 1940, possibly with a special act to allow him to sit in the House of Commons ; in 1963 Lords Home and Hailsham were only able to be candidates owing to recent legislation permitting them to disclaim their peerages.

By the 1960s it was generally considered unacceptable for a Prime Minister to sit in the House of Lords, and Home renounced his earldom and successfully stood for election to the House of Commons.

Nevertheless, Macmillan advised the Queen that he considered Home the right choice.

* In the UK once the top of a coffin has been lowered below ground level in a burial if it raised again, say for example the grave sides are protruding and need further work, this is considered an exhumation and the Home Office are required to be notified and a full investigation undertaken.

He had proposed in a letter to Máximo Gómez in 1882 the formation of a revolutionary party, which he considered essential in the prevention of Cuba falling back on the Home Rule Party ( Partido Autonomista ) after the Pact of Zanjón.

The Conservatives soon began to get annoyed that they were unable to criticise the Government, and took this into Parliament ; rather than criticising policy, they would attack individual ministers, including the Lord Chancellor ( who they considered " far too enamoured of German culture ") and the Home Secretary, who was " too tender to aliens ".