The Home Office is a Ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security, and law and order. As such it is responsible for the police, UK Border Agency, and the Security Service (MI5). It is also in charge of government policy on security-related issues such as drugs, counter-terrorism, and ID cards. It was formerly responsible for the Prison Service and Probation Service, but these are now under a newly created Ministry of Justice.
It continues to be known, especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament, as the Home Department.
Organisation
The Home Office is headed by the Home Secretary, a Cabinet minister supported by the senior civil servant, the Permanent Secretary.
As of April 2012, the Home Office comprised the following agencies, inspectorates, and public bodies:
Agencies
Inspectorates
Public Bodies
Ministers
The Home Office Ministers are as follows:{| class=wikitable ! colspan=2 | Minister ! Rank ! Portfolio |- | width=1 style="background:#0087DC" | | The Rt Hon Theresa May MP | Secretary of State for the Home Department (Home Secretary) | Overall responsibility for the work of the department. Security, counter-terrorism, legislative programmes and expenditure issues |- | width=1 style="background:#0087DC" | | Damian Green MP | Minister of State (jointly with the Ministry of Justice) | Crime and justice policy. Overall responsibility for all crime issues in the Home Office, police reform and police accountability, police funding, youth crime, anti-social behaviour, serious organised crime and the Serious Organised Crime Agency, creation of a border police force jointly with the immigration minister, departmental big society champion |- | width=1 style="background:#0087DC" | | Mark Harper MP | Minister of State | Immigration, asylum and border control. Responsible for policy on immigration and asylum, implementation of the immigration cap, policy on passports and oversight of the Identity and Passport Service and the General Register Office, creation of a border police force, border control and enforcement including oversight of the UK Border Agency |- | width=1 style="background:#FFD700" | | Jeremy Browne MP | Minister of State | Crime prevention and anti-social behaviour reduction. Crime reduction policy, drugs and alcohol policy, use of DNA and reform of DNA database, Licensing Act and powers of police and local authorities, public order, use of powers of surveillance by local authorities, violent crime, CCTV, acquisitive and business crime, oversight of the Forensic Science Service |- | width=1 style="background:#0087DC" | | James Brokenshire MP | Parliamentary Under Secretary of State | Crime and security. Counter-terrorism, Olympic security, exclusion orders, departmental science, including counter-terrorism science and technology, extradition, mutual legal assistance |- | width=1 style="background:#0087DC" | | Lord Henley | Parliamentary Under Secrteray of State | Criminal information including vetting and barring, the Security Industry Authority, the Criminal Records Bureau, asset recovery, scientific procedures on live animals, departmental statistics and research, departmental Freedom of information lead |- |}
{| class=wikitable ! rowspan=2 | Key | style="background:#0087DC" | | Conservative |- | style="background:#FFD700" | | Liberal Democrat |}
Damian Green works between the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.
Priorities
The Department outlined its aims for this Parliament in its Business Plan, which was published in May 2011 and superseded its Structural Reform Plan. The plan said the department will:::1. Empower the public to hold the police to account for their role in cutting crime :::* Introduce directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners and 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 a National Crime Agency to strengthen the fight against organised crime (and replace the Serious 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 the Government Equalities Office) :::*Help create a fair and flexible 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
The Home Office publishes progress against the plan on the 10 Downing Street website.
History
On 27 March 1782, the Home Office was formed by renaming the existing Southern Department, with all existing staff transferring. On the same day, the Northern Department was renamed the Foreign Office.
To match the new names, there was a transferring of responsibilities between the two Departments of State. All domestic responsibilities 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:
Responsibilities were subsequently changed over the years that followed:
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 of British Summer Time.
Permanent Under Secretaries of State of the Home Office
Anonymous attack
On April 7, 2012, hacktivist group Anonymous temporarily took down the UK Home Office website. The group took responsibility for the attack, the attack was part of ongoing Anonymous activity in protest against the deportation of hackers as part of Operation TrialAtHome. One Anonymous source claimed in their tweet it was also launched in retaliation for "draconian surveillance proposals".Union Action
On the 18th of July 2012, the Public and Commercial Services Union announced that thousands of Home Office employees would go on strike over jobs, pay and other issues. This strike was likely to affect the 2012 Olympic Games as the strike action was due to take place on the day before the opening ceremony, on the 26th of July (the Opening ceremony will be on the 27th). The strike was due to last for 24 hours and after this, the PCSU would continue with other methods of action including "working to rule" and a ban on overtime. This would have disrupted one of the busiest days for Heathrow Airport when many athletes and overseas visitors were to arrive for the games. However, the PCSU called off the strike before it was planned as it was seen as not going to be effective and would have been extremely unpopular with the public.Location
From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was located at 50 Queen Anne's Gate, a Brutalist office block in Westminster designed by Sir Basil Spence, close to St. James's Park tube station. Many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London and the country, notably the headquarters of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon.In Spring 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir Terry Farrell at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster, SW1P 4DF, on the site of the demolished Marsham Towers building of the Department of the Environment. The contract to build the new headquarters was a public-private partnership deal intended to last for around 29 years.
For external shots of its fictional Home Office, the TV series Spooks uses an aerial shot of the Government Offices Great George Street instead, serving as stand-in to match the distinctly less modern appearance of the fictitious accommodation interiors the series uses.
Research
To meet the UK's 5-year science and technology strategy, the Home Office sponsors research in police sciences including:Devolution
Most front-line law and order policy areas, such as policing and criminal justice, are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland but the following reserved and excepted matters are handled by Westminster.Scotland
Reserved matters:
The Scottish Government Justice and Communities Directorates are responsible for devolved justice and home affairs policy.
Northern Ireland
Excepted matters:
The following matters were not transferred at the devolution of policing and justice on 12 April 2010 and remain reserved:
The Home Office's main counterparts in Northern Ireland are:
The Department of Justice is accountable to the Northern Ireland Executive whereas the Northern Ireland Office is a UK Government department.
Wales
Under the Welsh devolution settlement, specific policy areas are transferred to the National Assembly for Wales rather than reserved to Westminster.
See also
References
External links
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