Councillor Rob Garnham, chair of Gloucestershire Police Authority, said they have found members of the public to be "very understanding of the situation".

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Neil Garnham, representing the Home Office, has told the review he could "neither confirm nor deny" whether Mr Litvinenko had been employed by British intelligence.

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Like Alison Garnham, she feared controlling what benefits are spent on would rob the poor of control over their lives and add to the stigma of being on benefits.

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The International Year of Biodiversity competition was judged by Diana Garnham (Chief Executive, the Science Council), Felix Pepler (Creative Education Consultant) and Leo Vincent (UNESCO Associated Schools in the UK).

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Mr Garnham said that in many cases, finding a local police station that was closed was more frustrating than having to contact a more distant station where a response would be assured.

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Campaigners like Alison Garnham argue that the public attitudes have been influenced by tabloid caricatures of benefit scroungers when, in fact, the amount paid to out-of-work people had gone down, in real terms, over the past 40 years.

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Neil Garnham QC, representing the Home Office, said departments asked for information were the Atomic Weapons Establishment, the Cabinet Office, Home Office, Foreign Office, Health Protection Agency, the Ministry of Defence, intelligence and security agencies, and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.

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"Like many other people, when they plan their families, they are not thinking about whether at some point in the future they might be on benefit, " Alison Garnham, chief executive of the Child Poverty Action Group told Radio 4's Today programme.

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