Previous posts include Shadow secretary of state for the Home Department.

To report the findings to the Secretary of State for the Home Department"

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many neighbourhood watch schemes are now in place.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on initiatives taken to improve vehicle security.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he has any plans to introduce direct elections to police authorities.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the current annual budget of the national drugs intelligence unit.

But so, no doubt, is the exercise of a great many other powers which are entrusted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his estimate of the number of crimes committed in 1991.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent representations he has received urging him to take new action to combat racist attacks.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received regarding increases in the incidence of ram-raiding.

The distinction between the two issues posed above is neatly demonstrated by R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will provide open air work camps for younger offenders serving custodial sentences.

The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Kenneth Baker)

This power is commonly exercised on the advice of the Secretary of State for the Home Department; the monarch has no direct involvement in its use.

David Waddington succeeds Douglas Hurd as Secretary of State for the Home Department.

The Secretaries of State were reorganized in 1782 and the duties now came under the Secretary of State for the Home Department.

At the time of the 2005 Conservative leadership contest, David Davis was Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department.

In one of such cases, Adan v Secretary of State for the Home Department, Lord Lloyd stated: "

A restricted right to a hearing was upheld by the Court of Appeal in R. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex p.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is the present level of those seeking political asylum; and what were the comparable figures in 1989.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what discussions he has held recently with Ministers in European Community countries about immigration and nationality questions.

The Fairs Act 1871 empowered the secretary of state for the Home Department to, on petition, make orders for the abolition of fairs.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he next expects to meet the chairman of Northumbria police authority to discuss resources in the area.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what measures will be taken by the United Kingdom Passport Agency to raise its standards of service.

The town itself was named for Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville, British Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1791 to 1801.