Home Office
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Formed | 27 March 1782 |
Preceding Department | |
Jurisdiction | Government of the United Kingdom |
Headquarters | 2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF |
Annual budget | £20.3 billion (2022-2023)[1] |
Secretary of State responsible |
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Department executive |
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Website | www |
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TheHome Office(HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as theHome Department,[2]is aministerial departmentof theGovernment of the United Kingdom.It is responsible forimmigration,security,andlaw and order.As such, it is responsible for policing in England and Wales,fire and rescue servicesin England,Border Force,visas and immigration,and theSecurity Service (MI5).It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such asdrugs,counterterrorism,andimmigration.It was formerly responsible forHis Majesty's Prison Serviceand theNational Probation Service,but these have been transferred to theMinistry of Justice.
The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is theHome Secretary,[3]a post considered one of theGreat Offices of State;it has been held byYvette Coopersince July 2024. The Home Office is managed from day to day by acivil servant,thePermanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office.
The expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office are scrutinised by theHome Affairs Select Committee.[4]
Organisation
[edit]The Home Office is headed by theHome Secretary,a Cabinet minister, supported by the department's senior civil servant, thepermanent secretary.
Organisational structure
[edit]The Home Office comprises eleven directorates that help fulfil the department's responsibilities.[5]
Immigration
[edit]- Border Force– controls migration at ports and airports across the UK and overseas.
- HM Passport Office– provides passport and civil registration services in England and Wales.
- Immigration Enforcement– responsible for enforcing immigration law in the UK.
- UK Visas and Immigration– processes visa, asylum, and citizenship applications.
- Migration and Borders Group – responsible for immigration policymaking.
Public services and policing
[edit]- Public Safety Group – responsible for policy areas including fire, policing, and crime reduction. Also responsible for implementing theEmergency Services Network.
- Homeland Security Group– develops policy and works with law enforcement and intelligence services to reduce risk fromTerrorism,state threats, andorganised crimeto the UK.
Other
[edit]- Corporate and Delivery – fulfils corporate duties such ashuman resources,project management,finance,andIT.
- Communications Directorate – delivers communications to the wider public to achieve the Home Office's objectives.
- STARS (Science, Technology, Analysis, Research, and Strategy) – performs data and evidenceanalysisto maximise organisational effectiveness.
Other related public bodies
[edit]As of April 2024, the Home Office works with the following agencies and public bodies:[6]
Executive non-departmental public bodies
[edit]- Disclosure and Barring Service(DBS)
- Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
- Independent Office for Police Conduct(IOPC)
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
- Security Industry Authority(SIA)
Advisory non-departmental public bodies
[edit]- Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs
- Animals in Science Committee
- Biometrics and Forensic Ethics Group
- Migration Advisory Committee
- Police Advisory Board for England and Wales
- Police Remuneration Review Body
- Technical Advisory Board
Tribunals
[edit]Independent monitoring bodies
[edit]- Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
- Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
- Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Others
[edit]- Adjudicator's Office
- College of Policing
- Commission for Countering Extremism
- Forensic Science Regulator
- His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
- Independent Family Returns Panel
- Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation
- Investigatory Powers Commissioner's Office
- National Counter Terrorism Security Office
- National Crime Agency Renumeration Review Body
- Security Service(MI5)
Budget and spending
[edit]In the financial year 2022-2023, the Home Office had a total budget of £20.3 billion.[7]
Directorate | 2022-2023 | |
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Resource (£millions) |
Capital (£millions) | |
Delivery | 77.8 | 3.0 |
STARS | 34.6 | 43.0 |
Homeland Security Group | 1,125.1 | 157.8 |
Public Safety Group | 11,204.4 | 225.4 |
Migration & Borders | 228.0 | 172.2 |
Customer Service (UKVI & HMPO) | -3,166.3 | 87.4 |
Asylum & Protection | 4,498.8 | 6.9 |
Borders & Enforcement | 1,404.8 | 135.4 |
Corporate Enablers | 945.6 | 37.9 |
Digital Data & Technology | 473.0 | 40.0 |
Legal | 11.1 | - |
Communications | 8.6 | - |
Arms Length Bodies | 99.9 | 16.4 |
Total | 17,005.3 | 925.4 |
Home Office ministers
[edit]The Home Office ministers are as follows, with cabinet ministers in bold.[8]
Four ministers, not in the table, have been confirmed as serving, but their portfolios have not yet been announced:
- The Rt Hon.Dame Diana JohnsonDBE MP – Minister of State
- Dame Angela EagleDBE MP – Minister of State
- The Rt Hon.The Lord Hanson of Flint– Minister of State
- Seema MalhotraMP – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Minister | Portrait | Office | Portfolio |
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The Rt Hon.Yvette CooperMP | ![]() |
Secretary of State for the Home Department | Overall responsibility for all Home Office business, including:; overarching responsibility for the departmental portfolio and oversight of the ministerial team; cabinet; National Security Council (NSC); public appointments; oversight of the Security Service; overall responsibility for the Home Office response to COVID-19 including health measures at the border and police powers to enforce lockdown.[9] |
Dan JarvisMBE MP | ![]() |
Minister of State for Security | Counter terrorism – Prepare, Prevent, Pursue, Protect; response to state threats; cyber security and crime; serious and organised crime; oversight of NCA; aviation and maritime security; economic security; economic crime (including anti-corruption and illicit finance); international criminality; fraud; countering extremism; extradition policy and operations; Special Cases Unit (exclusions, deprivations etc.); MP security and VIP protection; online safety; victims of terrorism.[10] |
vacant | Minister of State for Countering Illegal Immigration | Safety of Rwanda Bill; Illegal Migration Act implementation; Nationality and Borders Act implementation; small boats policy; asylum and modern slavery policy; upstream and organised immigration crime; returns and removals; Migration and Economic Development Partnership; third country agreements and third country asylum processing; foreign national offender removal; detention estate; Immigration Enforcement; compliant environment.[11] | |
vacant | Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border | Net migration; UK points-based system; simplifying the immigration system and immigration rules; current and future visa policy; nationality; Windrush; Home Office interests in free trade; Future Borders and Immigration System and Border Strategy 2025; agreements; UK Visas and Immigration, HM Passport Office and EU Settlement Scheme; asylum decision making (backlog); accommodation (closing hotels); Border Force operations;
Safe and legal routes and resettlement, including: Ukraine Family Scheme, Homes for Ukraine Scheme, Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme, Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy, Hong Kong British Nationals (Overseas), Gaza and Israel.[12] | |
vacant | Minister of State for Crime, Policing and Fire | Policing; police accountability and efficiency; local policing response to organised crime; public order, major events and Public Order Bill; cutting crime; criminal justice system; drugs and county lines; unauthorised encampments; firearms; alcohol and licensing; anti-social behaviour; neighbourhood crime; policing elements of RASSO (and any wider policing elements of the safeguarding portfolio); civil contingencies; ESMCP; Police, Crime, Sentencing and the Courts Act; fire policy; Home Office elements of fire operations; Grenfell. | |
Jess PhillipsMP | ![]() |
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Victims and Safeguarding | Tackling violence against women and girls; domestic abuse; FGM and forced marriage; child sexual abuse and exploitation; Disclosure and Barring Service; Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority; sexual violence; Rape Review; prostitution; stalking; hate crime; crime prevention; early youth intervention; victim support; victims elements of RASSO; spiking. Held jointly with theMinistry of Justice |
vacant | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | Home Office responsibilities: public safety and national security 'shadow' in the Lords; public safety and national security legislation. Cross-cutting: departmental reform and Transformation Programme; commercial; digital and technology; data and identity; analysis, science and research; programme portfolio; public appointments and sponsorship; inquiries; Better Regulation. |
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Priorities
[edit]The Department outlined its aims for this Parliament in its Business Plan, which was published in May 2011, and superseded its Structural Reform Plan.[13]The plan said the department will:
- 1. Empower the public to hold the police to account for their role in cutting crime
- Introduce directly electedPolice and Crime Commissionersand make police actions to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour more transparent.
- 2. Free up the police to fight crime more effectively and efficiently
- Cut police bureaucracy, end unnecessary central interference and overhaul police powers in order to cut crime, reduce costs and improve police value for money. Simplify national institutional structures and establish aNational Crime Agencyto strengthen the fight against organised crime (and replace theSerious Organised Crime Agency).
- 3. Create a more integrated criminal justice system
- Help the police and other public services work together across the criminal justice system.
- 4. Secure our borders and reduce immigration
- Deliver an improved migration system that commands public confidence and serves our economic interests. Limit non-EU economic migrants, and introduce new measures to reduce inflow and minimise abuse of all migration routes, for example the student route. Process asylum applications more quickly, and end the detention of children for immigration purposes.
- 5. Protect people's freedoms and civil liberties
- Reverse state interference to ensure there is not disproportionate intrusion into people's lives.
- 6. Protect our citizens from terrorism
- Keep people safe through the Government's approach to counter-terrorism.
- 7. Build a fairer and more equal society (through theGovernment Equalities Office)
- Help create a fair andflexible labour market.Change culture and attitudes. Empower individuals and communities. Improve equality structures, frontline services and support; and help Government Departments and others to consider equality as a matter of course.
- 1. Empower the public to hold the police to account for their role in cutting crime
The Home Office publishes progress against the plan on the10 Downing Streetwebsite.[14]
History
[edit]On 27 March 1782Southern Department,with all existing staff transferring. On the same day, theNorthern Departmentwas renamed theForeign Office.
,the Home Office was formed by renaming the existingTo match the new names, there was a transferring of responsibilities between the two Departments of State. All domestic responsibilities (including colonies) were moved to the Home Office, and all foreign matters became the concern of the Foreign Office.
Most subsequently created domestic departments (excluding, for instance, those dealing with education) have been formed by splitting responsibilities away from the Home Office.
The initial responsibilities were:
- Answeringpetitionsand addresses sent to the King
- Advising the King on
- Royal grants
- Warrantsandcommissions
- The exercise ofRoyal Prerogative
- Issuing instructions on behalf of the King to officers ofThe Crown,lords-lieutenantandmagistrates,mainly concerning law and order
- Operation of the secret service within the UK
- Protecting the public
- Safeguarding the rights and liberties of individuals
- Colonial matters
Responsibilities were subsequently changed over the years that followed:[15]
- 1793 added: regulation ofaliens
- 1794 removed: control ofmilitary forces(toSecretary of State for War)
- 1801 removed:colonialbusiness (toSecretary of State for War and the Colonies)
- 1804 removed:Barbary Stateconsuls (to Secretary of State for War and the Colonies)[16]
- 1823 added:prisons
- 1829 added:Metropolitan Policeand otherpolice services
- 1836 added:registration of births, deaths and marriagesin England and Wales
- 1844 added:naturalisation
- 1845 added: registration ofFriendly Societies
- 1855 removed:yeomanriesandmilitias(toWar Office)
- 1858 added:local boards of health
- 1871 removed: local boards of health (toLocal Government Board)
- 1871 removed: registration of births, deaths and marriages (to Local Government Board)
- 1872 removed:highwaysandturnpikes(to Local Government Board)
- 1875 added: control ofexplosives
- 1875 removed: registration of Friendly Societies (toTreasury)
- 1885 removed: Scotland (toSecretary for Scotlandand theScottish Office)
- 1886 removed: fishing (toBoard of Trade)
- 1889 removed:Land Commissioners(toBoard of Agriculture)
- 1900 removed: matters relating toburial grounds(to Local Government Board)
- 1905 removed:public housing(to Local Government Board)
- 1914 added: dangerous drugs
- 1919 removed: aircraft and air traffic (toAir Ministry)
- 1919 removed:use of human bodies in medical training(to Ministry of Health)
- 1919 removed: infant and child care (to Ministry of Health)
- 1919 removed: lunacy andmental health(to Ministry of Health)
- 1919 removed: health and safety (to Ministry of Health)
- 1920 added:firearms
- 1920 removed: Representation of Britain abroad in labour matters (toMinistry of Labour)
- 1920 removed: mining (toMines Department)
- 1920 added:Northern Ireland
- 1921 added:elections(from theMinistry of Health)
- 1922 removed: relations withIrish Free State(toColonial Office)
- 1923 removed:Order of the British Empire(to Treasury)
- 1925 removed: registration oftrade unions(to Ministry of Labour)
- 1931 removed:county councils(to Ministry of Health)
- 1933 added:poisons
- 1934 removed:metropolitan boroughs(to Ministry of Health)
- 1935 added:Civil Defence Service
- 1937 removed: road accident returns (to Ministry of Transport)
- 1938 added:fire services
- 1938 removed:Imperial Service Orderand medal (to Treasury)
- 1940 removed: factory inspections (to Ministry of Labour)
- 1945 removed: workmen's compensation scheme (to Ministry of National Insurance)
- 1947 added: infant and child care (from Ministry of Health)
- 1947 removed: regulation of advertisements (to Ministry of Town and Country Planning)
- 1947 removed: burial fees (to Ministry of Health)
- 1947 removed: registration ofbuilding societies(to Treasury)
- 1948 removed:Broadmoor hospital(to Lunacy Board of Control)
- 1949 added:Civil Defence Corps
- 1950 removed: structural precautions for civil defence (toMinistry of Works)
- 1950 removed: minor judicial appointments (toLord Chancellor)
- 1953 removed:slaughterhouses(toMinistry of Housing and Local Government)
- 1954 removed:markets(to Ministry of Housing and Local Government)
- 1956 removed: railway accidents (toMinistry of Transport and Civil Aviation)
- 1969 removed:reservoirs(to Ministry of Housing and Local Government)
- 1971 removed:child carein England (toDepartment of Health and Social Security)
- 1971 removed: child care in Wales (toWelsh Office)
- 1972 removed:Northern Ireland Department of the Home Office(toNorthern Ireland Office)
- 1973 removed:adoption(to Department of Health and Social Security)
- 1992 removed:broadcastingandsport(to the new Department of National Heritage – later theDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport)
- 2000 removed:Metropolitan Police(toMetropolitan Police Authority- laterMayor's Office for Policing and Crime)
- 2001 removed:elections(to theDepartment for Transport, Local Government and the Regions)
- 2001 removed:Crown Dependencies(toLord Chancellor's Department– nowMinistry of Justice)
- 2007 removed:Home Office Drugs Inspectoratebranch, formed in 1934
- 2007 removed:criminal justice,prisons&probationand legal affairs (to newMinistry of Justice)
- 2007 added:counter-terrorismstrategy (from theCabinet Office)
- 2016 added: fire and rescue services in England (from theDepartment for Communities and Local Government)
The Home Office retains a variety of functions that have not found a home elsewhere and sit oddly with the main law-and-order focus of the department, such as regulation ofBritish Summer Time.
Recent incidents
[edit]Union action
[edit]On 18 July 2012, thePublic and Commercial Services Unionannounced that thousands of Home Office employees would go onstrikeover jobs, pay and other issues.[17]The union called off the strike; it claimed the department had, consequent to the threat of actions, announced 1,100 new border jobs.[18]
Windrush scandal
[edit]The first allegations about the targeting of pre-1973Caribbeanmigrants started in 2013.[citation needed]In 2018, the allegations were put to the Home Secretary in theHouse of Commons,and resulted in the resignation of the then Home Secretary. TheWindrush scandalresulted in some British citizens being wrongly deported, along with a further compensation scheme for those affected, and a wider debate on theHome Office hostile environment policy.[citation needed]
Aderonke Apata
[edit]Aderonke Apata,aNigerianLGBT activist,made two asylum claims that were both rejected by the Home Office in 2014 and on 1 April 2015 respectively, due to her previously having been in a relationship with a man and having children with that man.[19][20][21][22][23]In 2014, Apata said that she would send anexplicit videoof herself to the Home Office to prove her sexuality.[19]This resulted in her asylum bid gaining widespread support, with multiple petitions created in response, which gained hundreds of thousands of signatures combined.[21]
On 8 August 2017, after a thirteen-year legal battle and after a new appeal from Apata was scheduled for late July, she was granted refugee status in the United Kingdom by the Home Office.[24]
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Location
[edit]Until 1978, the Home Office had its offices in what is now theForeign and Commonwealth Office Main Buildingon King Charles Street, offWhitehall.From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was then located at50 Queen Anne's Gate,aBrutalistoffice block inWestminsterdesigned by SirBasil Spence,close toSt James's Park tube station.Many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London, and the country, notably the headquarters of theImmigration and Nationality Directoratein Croydon.
In 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed bySir Terry Farrellat2 Marsham Street,Westminster, on the site of the demolishedMarsham Towersbuilding of theDepartment of the Environment.[25]
For external shots of its fictional Home Office, the TV seriesSpooksuses an aerial shot of theGovernment Offices Great George Streetinstead, serving as stand-in to match the distinctly less modern appearance of the fictitious accommodation interiors the series uses.[26]
Research
[edit]To meet the UK's five-year science and technology strategy,[27]the Home Office sponsors research inpolice sciences,including:
- Biometrics– including face and voice recognition
- Cell typeanalysis – to determine the origin of cells (e.g. hair, skin)
- Chemistry– new techniques to recover latent fingerprints
- DNA– identifying offender characteristics from DNA
- Improvedprofiling– of illicit drugs to help identify their source
- Raman Spectroscopy– to provide more sensitive drugs and explosives detectors (e.g. roadside drug detection)
- Terahertz imagingmethods and technologies – e.g. image analysis and new cameras, to detect crime, enhance images and support anti-terrorism
Devolution
[edit]Most front-line law and order policy areas, such as policing and criminal justice, are devolved inScotlandandNorthern Ireland(and only very partially inWales), but the followingreserved and excepted mattersare handled by Westminster.
Northern Ireland
[edit]Excepted matters:[28]
- Extradition(as aninternational relationsmatter)
- Immigrationandnationality
The following matters were not transferred at the devolution of policing and justice on 12 April 2010, and remain reserved:[29]
The Home Office's main counterparts inNorthern Irelandare:
- Department of Justice(policing, public order and community safety)
- Northern Ireland Office(national security in Northern Ireland)[30]
The Department of Justice is accountable to theNorthern Ireland Executive,whereas the Northern Ireland Office is aUK government department.
Scotland
[edit]Reserved matters:[31]
- The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
- Extraditionlegislation, but the Scottish Ministers (working with theCrown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service) have executive responsibility for extradition operations and policy responsibility for mutual legal assistance
- Most aspects offirearmslegislation, but Scottish Ministers have some executive responsibilities for the licensing of firearms; further powers are transferred under theScotland Act 2012
- Immigrationandnationality
- Scientific procedureson live animals.
TheScottish Government Justice and Safer Communities Directoratesare responsible for devolved justice and home affairs policy.
Wales
[edit]Reserved matters:
- Policing
- Drug Abuse
- Data Protectionand access to information
- Elections
- Firearms
- Film Classification
- Immigration and Nationality
- Scientific Procedureson live animals
- National SecurityandCounter-Terrorism
- Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
- Emergency Powers
- Extradition
- Lieutenancies
- Charities
Criticism
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In March 2019, it was reported that in two unrelated cases, the Home Office denied asylum to converted Christians by misrepresenting certainBiblequotes. In one case, it quoted selected excerpts from the Bible to imply thatChristianityis not more peaceful thanIslam,the asylum-seeker's original religion.[32]In another incident, anIranianChristian application for asylum was rejected because her faith was judged as "half-hearted", for she did not believe that Jesus could protect her from the Iranian regime.[33]As criticism grew on social media, the Home Office distanced itself from the decision, though it confirmed the letter was authentic.[34]The Home Secretary[who?]said that it was "totally unacceptable" for his department to quote the Bible to question an Iranian Christian convert's asylum application, and ordered an urgent investigation into what had happened.[35]
The treatment of Christian asylum-seekers chimes with other incidents in the past, such as the refusal to grantvisasto theArchbishopofMosulto attend the consecration of the UK's firstSyriac OrthodoxCathedral.[36][better source needed]In a 2017 study, the ChristianBarnabas Fundfound that only 0.2% of all Syrian refugees accepted by the UK were Christians, although Christians accounted for approximately 10% of Syria's pre-war population.[37]
In 2019, the Home Office admitted to multiple breaches of data protection regulations in the handling of its Windrush compensation scheme. The department sent emails to Windrush migrants which revealed the email address of other Windrush migrants to whom the email was sent. The data breach concerned five different emails, each of which was sent to 100 recipients.[38]In April 2019, the Home Office admitted to revealing 240 personal email addresses of EU citizens applying for settled status in the UK. The email addresses of applicants were incorrectly sent to other applicants to the scheme.[39]In response to these incidents, the Home Office pledged to launch an independent review of its data protection compliance.[40]
In 2019, theCourt of Appealissued a judgement which criticised the Home Office's handling of immigration cases. The judges stated that the "general approach [by the home secretary,Sajid Javid] in all earnings discrepancy cases [has been] legally flawed ". The judgement relates to the Home Office's interpretation of Section 322(5) of the Immigration Rules.[41]
In November 2020, theEquality and Human Rights Commission,a statutory body that investigates breaches of theEquality Act 2010published a report concluding that the Home Office had a "lack of organisation-wide commitment, including by senior leadership, to the importance of equality and the Home Office's obligations under the equality duty placed on government departments". The report noted that the Home Office's pursuit of the "hostile environment" policy from 2012 onwards "accelerated the impact of decades of complex policy and practice based on a history of white and black immigrants being treated differently". Caroline Waters, the interim chair of the EHRC, described the treatment of Windrush immigrants by the Home Office as a "shameful stain on British history".[42]
See also
[edit]- Home Office Large Major Enquiry System 2 (HOLMES 2)
- John Gieve
- Law enforcement in the United Kingdom
- List of home secretaries
- Ministry of Home Security
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department
- Permanent Under-Secretary of State of the Home Office
- UK Immigration Service
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External links
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- Official website
- Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies— gives a history of responsibilities of the Home Office, including which functions were merged into or transferred away from the Home Office