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Labourhome (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Partial list of junior appointments confirmed. No job for Cruddas or Blunkett (which suggests that No. 10 still hasn't got the hang of suppressing speculation properly). Quentin Davies gets MoD role. Ministerial Ranks Outside Cabinet are as follows: Phil Woolas - Immigration Minister Vernon Coaker - Police Minister Pat McFadden - Business Secretary deputy Quentin Davies - junior post in the Ministry...
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Andy Love MP (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Last week we received a Government response to our knife crime petition, which was handed in to Number 10 Downing Street last month. The response came from Vernon Coaker MP, Home Office Minister, (see right) who responded on behalf of the Prime Minister as the minister responsible for policy on knife crime. In his letter, Mr Coaker offered his sincere condolences to the families and friends of those...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
A new £7M police unit dedicated to tackling cyber crime and clamping down on internet fraud was announced by e-crime Minister Vernon Coaker today. The new Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) will provide specialist officer training and co-ordinate cross-force initiatives to crack down on on-line offenses. E-crime is a global menace, and with an estimated 80-90 [...]
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 14/09/2008
Last year Councillors Steve Beasant, Dave Boylen, Doug Pickett and myself all went down to London with Steve and Debbie Hill to campaign for more police on the streets of North East Lincolnshire. We met with the two local MPs, a number of civil servants and Vernon Coaker, the Government Minister to discuss the [...]
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200 Weeks (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
Just a little statistic I noticed in a recent edition of Police Review, it came from a question put in the Houses of Parliament by MP David Taylor who wanted to know how many violent crimes were recorded in England in 1987, 1997 & 2007. Vernon Coaker, parliamentary under-secretary for the Home Department said, “The figures [...]
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Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Labour’s Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker has called for a crackdown on the illegal sale of knives to under-18s. In a letter to Chief Executives of Local Authorities and Chief Police Officers, he emphasised concerns about young people's access to...
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earth and starrs (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
I was really encouraged by an interview in today's Guardian with Vernon Coaker, MP with responsibility for police and community safety. During his time in office, he has focused on getting men to take responsibility for their actions, and those of their friends, work colleagues and other men, as the recent campaign against use of brothels highlights. His legacy is likely to be that he helped to make...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Minister for police, security and community safety Vernon Coaker tells Julie Bindel he wants men to take a more responsible attitude towards domestic and sexual violence against women
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Men must challenge the myths and stereotypes that still surround the issues of sexual violence, to show being masculine does not involve dominating others, writes Home Office minister Vernon Coaker The majority of rape victims are female and the majority of perpetrators are male. But does this mean that men do not care about offences that they are unlikely to experience? Of course not. Eight per cent...
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Department for Children, Schools and Families (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Draft guidance to identify and protect children from sexual exploitation has been launched today by Children's Minister Kevin Brennan and Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker. (2008/0158)
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Rape has been seen as a 'woman's problem' for far too long and we urgently need more men to publicly condemn sexual violence, writes Dr Nicole Westmarland This week Rape Crisis shared a platform with the Met's Assistant Commissioner John Yates, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker and Dr Alyson Jones of the Lancashire SAFE (Sexual Assault Forensic Examination) centre at a conference about improving...
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The Why of the World (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
Full coverage of UK Politics Home office minister Vernon Coaker has taken ministerial colleagues Vera Baird and Barbara Follett on a fact-finding mission to the Red Light District of Amsterdam today. They are there to observe Holland's notoriously liberal approach to prostitution as part of the Government's review into the law in this area. But the
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Home Office minister Vernon Coaker is in Holland today seeing the country’s prostitution laws first-hand with a view to implementing them in Britain.
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EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
HOME Office minister Vernon Coaker was today in Ipswich on a fact-finding mission to discover more about the town's successful prostitution strategy.
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 21/05/2008
The Colombian vice-president, Francisco Santos, appeared to call for a debate about the legalisation of cocaine today at an event in London also attended by Home Office minister, Vernon Coaker.
