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The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal is the successor to the Immigration Appellate Authority and the Immigration Appeals Tribunal. The Tribunal was set up under the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants etc) Act 2004 and came into being on 4th April 2005. The purpose of the Tribunal is to hear and decide appeals against decisions made by the Home Office in matters of asylum, immigration and nationality.

The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal »

Address: Asylum and Immigration Tribunal PO Box 7866 Loughborough LE11 2XZ

Fax: 01509 221699 Contact Languages: English

The Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment (ACBE) provides for dialogue between Government and business on environmental issues and aims to help mobilise the business community in demonstrating good environmental practice and management.

ACBE V has come to the end of its current two year term and has now produced its annual report 2003. The report summarises the work completed in the last two years and distils the wide-ranging recommendations into five key principles for each of Government and business. The themes explored include: resource productivity, economic instruments, energy, waste, planning, and transport.



Advisory Committee on Business and Environment »

Address: Environment, Business and Consumers Division Defra Zone 6/E8, Ashdown House (V) 123 Victoria Street London SW1E 6DE

Phone: 020 7082 8654 Fax: 020 7082 8698 Contact Languages: English

It is a designated aim of the Association to offer an opportunity for discussing and assessing the future role of local government in so far as it relates to those councils who are experiencing significantly different problems from those of our smaller parish colleagues. Many members of the Association are active to pursue an enhanced role for the work of their councils and existing Associations representing local authorities have shown that by grouping together, similar Councils are in a much better position to represent their common interest.


Association of Larger Local Councils »

Address: Cheshire, P.O. Box 191 Macclesfield SK11 OFG

Phone: 01625 615 905 Contact Languages: English

The Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) is an independent, professionally led strategic body. In the public interest and, in equal and active partnership with Government and the Association of Police Authorities, ACPO leads and coordinates the direction and development of the police service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. In times of national need ACPO, on behalf of all chief officers, coordinates the strategic policing response.



The Association of Chief Police Officers »

Address: 25, Victoria Street London SW1H 0EX

Phone: 020 7227 3434 Fax: 020 72273400 Contact Languages: English

The Association of Directors of Social Services represents all the Directors of Adults Social Services (DASS) and Directors of Children's Services (DCS) in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Association is able to bring together tremendous breadth, depth and accumulated experience on all issues covering managerial policy and professional activities of social services departments. Our members are jointly responsible through the activities of their departments for the well-being, protection and care of thousands of children, elderly and disabled people and for the promotion of that well-being and protection through the use of direct services as well as their co-ordination of, and liaison with, voluntary agencies, private companies and other public authorities.



The Association of Directors of Social Services »

Address: Marinda Oosthuizen ADSS Administrator ADSS Business Unit Local Government House Smith Square London SW1P 3HZ

Phone: 020 7072 7433 Fax: 020 7863 9133 Contact Languages: English

The ALG has a track record of co-ordination at borough, sub-regional and pan-London levels and has established a number of key pan-London or cross-borough related partnerships which contribute to the overall governance of London, for example Capital Ambition, London Centre of Excellence and Consumer Direct.



The Association of London Government »

Address: Association of London Government 59½ Southwark Street London SE1 0AL

Phone: 020 7934 9999 Contact Languages: English