Mr Walker said he prepared a presentation for the Department of Health about problems with hitting targets but was ordered to remove any reference to him calling for a capacity review.

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The commission's terms of reference instruct it to consider proposals for a Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, which would be a radical departure from practice in the rest of the United Kingdom.

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The Home Office's policy document, for example, makes no reference to the fact that the Department of Trade and Industry has just published its own draft bill on the interception of electronic communications.

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State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell cited "Iran's destructive behavior in Syria, " a reference to its support for the government's fierce offensive against its opponents.

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