Home Office

Ministerial department of the UK Government

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Home Office

Headquarters at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster
Department overview
Formed| 27 March 1782; 243 years ago (1782-03-27)
Preceding Department|

* Southern 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|

* Yvette Cooper MP, Home Secretary

Department executives|

* Dame Antonia Romeo, Permanent Secretary
* Simon Ridley, Second Permanent Secretary

Website| gov.uk/home-office
A Home Office Immigration Enforcement vehicle in north London

The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department,[2] is the United Kingdom's interior ministry. It is responsible for public safety and policing, border security, immigration, passports, and civil registration.

Agencies under its purview include police in England and Wales, Border Force, the Visas and Immigration authority, and the Security Service (MI5). It also manages policy on drugs, counterterrorism, and immigration. It was formerly responsible for His Majesty's Prison Service and the National Probation Service, but these have been transferred to the Ministry of Justice.

The Cabinet minister responsible for the department is the home secretary,[3] a post considered one of the Great Offices of State; it has been held by Yvette Cooper since July 2024. The Home Office is managed from day to day by a civil servant, the permanent under-secretary of state of the Home Office.

The expenditure, administration, and policy of the Home Office are scrutinised by the Home Affairs Select Committee.[4]

## Organisation

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The Home Office is headed by the home secretary, a Cabinet minister, supported by the department's senior civil servant, the permanent secretary.

### Organisational structure

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The Home Office comprises eleven directorates that help fulfil the department's responsibilities.[5]

#### Immigration

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* Border Force – controls migration at ports and airports across the UK and overseas.
* Border Security Command – combats smuggling gangs that facilitate illegal migrant crossings over the English Channel.
* 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

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* Public Safety Group – responsible for policy areas including fire, policing, and crime reduction. Also responsible for implementing the Emergency Services Network.
* Homeland Security Group – develops policy and works with law enforcement and intelligence services to reduce risk from Terrorism, state threats, and organised crime to the UK.

#### Other

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* Corporate and Delivery – fulfils corporate duties such as human resources, project management, finance, and IT.
* 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 evidence analysis to maximise organisational effectiveness.

### Other related public bodies

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As of April 2024, the Home Office works with the following agencies and public bodies:[6]

#### Executive non-departmental public bodies

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* 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

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* 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

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* Investigatory Powers Tribunal
* Police Discipline Appeals Tribunal

#### Independent monitoring bodies

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* Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
* Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner
* Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

#### Others

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* 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

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In the financial year 2022–2023, the Home Office had a total budget of £20.3 billion.[7]

Spending by financial year  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

## Ministers

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The Home Office ministers are as follows, with cabinet ministers in bold.[8]

Minister  | Portrait  | Office  | Portfolio

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Yvette Cooper MP |  | 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[9]
Dan Jarvis MP |  | Minister of State for Security | Counter terrorism and extremism; state threats; cyber security and crime; serious and organised crime; oversight of the National Crime Agency; anti-corruption; economic crime (excluding fraud)[10]
Dame Angela Eagle MP |  | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Border Security Command; asylum policy; asylum accommodation; returns and removals; irregular migration policy; organised immigration crime; foreign national offenders; Immigration Enforcement; small boat arrivals; National Referral Mechanism[11]
Seema Malhotra MP |  | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship | Legal migration policy; Immigration Rules and visa policy; Windrush Compensation Scheme; Future Borders and Immigration System; HM Passport Office; General Register Office; Border Force operation; safe and legal routes and resettlement[12]
Dame Diana Johnson MP |  | Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention

[13]

* policing standards and governance
* neighbourhood policing
* public order, major events, and civil contingencies
* criminal justice system
* Young Futures
* Safer Streets

David Hanson, Baron Hanson of Flint MP |  | Minister of State for the Home Department  | Fraud; departmental finance; Home Office business in the Lords; Overseas Territories; public appointments and sponsorship; inquiries; union and devolution[14]
Jess Phillips MP |  | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls | Violence against women and girls; safeguarding; rape and serious sexual offences; violent crime and domestic abuse; child sexual abuse and exploitation; modern slavery; spiking
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## Priorities

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This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
Last update: 2012 (April 2025)

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The department outlined its aims for this Parliament in its Business Plan, which was published in May 2011, and superseded its Structural Reform Plan.[15] 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 Policing.
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.[16]

Programs include:

* the Metropolitan Police Service
* Counter Terrorism Command
* Protection Command, one of the commands within the Specialist Operations directorate of the Met.
* Territorial Support Group
* CONTEST, a strategy written as early as 2003 by which to deradicalize individuals who are at risk. CONTEST is composed of the "four Ps" – Prevent, Pursue, Protect, and Prepare – which aim to reduce terrorism at all levels through: Preventing more people from being radicalised; Pursuing suspects operationally and legally; Protecting the public through security measures, and Preparing to manage the response to mitigate the impact of an inevitable attack.
* Fixated Threat Assessment Centre: a UK police/mental health unit, whose function is to manage the risk to public figures from stalkers and individuals who are fixated on high profile public figures or prominent protected sites.

## History

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On 27 March 1782; 243 years ago (1782-03-27), 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 (including colonies, previously administered under the Board of Trade) were moved to the Home Office, and all foreign matters (including the administration of British protectorates) 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:

* Answering petitions and addresses sent to the King
* Advising the King on
* Royal grants
* Warrants and commissions
* The exercise of Royal Prerogative
* Issuing instructions on behalf of the King to officers of The Crown, lords-lieutenant and magistrates, 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:[17]

* 1793 added: regulation of aliens
* 1794 removed: control of military forces (to Secretary of State for War)
* 1801 removed: colonial business (to Secretary of State for War and the Colonies)
* 1804 removed: Barbary State consuls (to Secretary of State for War and the Colonies)[18]
* 1823 added: prisons
* 1829 added: Metropolitan Police and other police services
* 1836 added: registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales
* 1844 added: naturalisation
* 1845 added: registration of Friendly Societies
* 1855 removed: yeomanries and militias (to War Office)[19]
* 1858 added: local boards of health
* 1871 removed: local boards of health (to Local Government Board)
* 1871 removed: registration of births, deaths and marriages (to Local Government Board)
* 1872 removed: highways and turnpikes (to Local Government Board)
* 1875 added: control of explosives
* 1875 removed: registration of Friendly Societies (to Treasury)
* 1885 removed: Scotland (to Secretary for Scotland and the Scottish Office)
* 1886 removed: fishing (to Board of Trade)
* 1889 removed: Land Commissioners (to Board of Agriculture)
* 1900 removed: matters relating to burial grounds (to Local Government Board)
* 1905 removed: public housing (to Local Government Board)
* 1914 added: dangerous drugs
* 1919 removed: aircraft and air traffic (to Air 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 and mental 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 (to Ministry of Labour)
* 1920 removed: mining (to Mines Department)
* 1920 added: Northern Ireland
* 1921 added: elections (from the Ministry of Health)
* 1922 removed: relations with Irish Free State (to Colonial Office)
* 1923 removed: Order of the British Empire (to Treasury)
* 1925 removed: registration of trade 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 Order and 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 of building societies (to Treasury)
* 1948 removed: Broadmoor hospital (to Lunacy Board of Control)
* 1949 added: Civil Defence Corps
* 1950 removed: structural precautions for civil defence (to Ministry of Works)
* 1950 removed: minor judicial appointments (to Lord Chancellor)
* 1953 removed: slaughterhouses (to Ministry of Housing and Local Government)
* 1954 removed: markets (to Ministry of Housing and Local Government)
* 1956 removed: railway accidents (to Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation)
* 1969 removed: reservoirs (to Ministry of Housing and Local Government)
* 1971 removed: child care in England (to Department of Health and Social Security)
* 1971 removed: child care in Wales (to Welsh Office)
* 1972 removed: Northern Ireland Department of the Home Office (to Northern Ireland Office)
* 1973 removed: adoption (to Department of Health and Social Security)
* 1992 removed: broadcasting and sport (to the new Department of National Heritage – later the Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
* 2000 removed: Metropolitan Police (to Metropolitan Police Authority \- later Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime)
* 2001 removed: elections, fire and rescue services in England, Bylaws (to the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions)
* 2001 removed: Crown Dependencies, Freedom of Information and data protection (to Lord Chancellor's Department – now Ministry of Justice)
* 2001 removed: Gambling, Alcohol licensing and Horse racing (to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport)
* 2001 removed: British Summer Time, Sunday Trading and Easter (to the Department of Trade and Industry – now the Department for Business and Trade)
* 2005 removed: Coroners (to the Department for Constitutional Affairs – now Ministry of Justice)
* 2007 removed: Home Office Drugs Inspectorate branch, formed in 1934
* 2007 removed: criminal justice, prisons & probation and legal affairs (to new Ministry of Justice)
* 2007 added: counter-terrorism strategy (from the Cabinet Office)
* 2016 added: fire and rescue services in England (from the Department for Communities and Local Government)
* 2025 removed: fire and rescue services in England (to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)

## Location

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The former Home Office building at 50 Queen Anne's Gate, London Lunar House in Croydon, which holds the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration

Until 1978, the Home Office had its offices in what is now the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Main Building on King Charles Street, off Whitehall. From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was then 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 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir Terry Farrell at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster, on the site of the demolished Marsham Towers building of the Department of the Environment.[20]

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.[21]

## Research

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To meet the UK's five-year science and technology strategy,[22] the Home Office sponsors research in police sciences, including:

* Biometrics – including face and voice recognition
* Cell type analysis – to determine the origin of cells (e.g. hair, skin)
* Chemistry – new techniques to recover latent fingerprints
* DNA – identifying offender characteristics from DNA
* Improved profiling – of illicit drugs to help identify their source
* Raman Spectroscopy – to provide more sensitive drugs and explosives detectors (e.g. roadside drug detection)
* Terahertz imaging methods and technologies – e.g. image analysis and new cameras, to detect crime, enhance images and support anti-terrorism

## Devolution

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Most front-line law and order policy areas, such as policing and criminal justice, are devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland (and only very partially in Wales), but the following reserved and excepted matters are handled by Westminster.

### Northern Ireland

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Excepted matters:[23]

* Extradition (as an international relations matter)
* Immigration and nationality

The following matters were not transferred at the devolution of policing and justice on 12 April 2010, and remain reserved:[24]

* Drug classification
* Parades
* Security of explosives
* National Crime Agency

The Home Office's main counterparts in Northern Ireland are:

* Department of Justice (policing, public order and community safety)
* Northern Ireland Office (national security in Northern Ireland)[25]

The Department of Justice is accountable to the Northern Ireland Executive, whereas the Northern Ireland Office is a UK government department.

### Scotland

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Reserved matters:[26]

* The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971
* Extradition legislation, but the Scottish Ministers (working with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service) have executive responsibility for extradition operations and policy responsibility for mutual legal assistance
* Most aspects of firearms legislation, but Scottish Ministers have some executive responsibilities for the licensing of firearms; further powers are transferred under the Scotland Act 2012
* Immigration and nationality
* Scientific procedures on live animals.

The Scottish Government Justice and Safer Communities Directorates are responsible for devolved justice and home affairs policy.

### Wales

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Reserved matters:

* Policing
* Drug Abuse
* Data Protection and access to information
* Elections
* Firearms
* Film Classification
* Immigration and Nationality
* Scientific Procedures on live animals
* National Security and Counter-Terrorism
* Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
* Emergency Powers
* Extradition
* Lieutenancies
* Charities

## Criticism

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### Windrush scandal

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See also: Home Office hostile environment policy

The Windrush scandal resulted in some British citizens being wrongly deported, along with a further compensation scheme for those affected, and a wider debate on the Home Office hostile environment policy.[citation needed]

The first allegations about the targeting of pre-1973 Caribbean migrants started in 2013.[citation needed] In 2018, the allegations were put to the home secretary in the House of Commons, and resulted in the resignation of the then home secretary. 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.[27] 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.[28] In response to these incidents, the Home Office pledged to launch an independent review of its data protection compliance.[29]

In 2019, the Court of Appeal issued 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.[30]

In November 2020, the Equality and Human Rights Commission, a statutory body that investigates breaches of the Equality Act 2010 published 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".[31]

### Aderonke Apata

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Aderonke Apata, a Nigerian LGBT 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.[32][33][34][35][36] In 2014, Apata said that she would send an explicit video of herself to the Home Office to prove her sexuality.[32] This resulted in her asylum bid gaining widespread support, with multiple petitions created in response, which gained hundreds of thousands of signatures combined.[34] 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.[37]

### Use of the Bible for rejecting asylum claims

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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 certain Bible quotes. In one case, it quoted selected excerpts from the Bible to imply that Christianity is not more peaceful than Islam, the asylum-seeker's original religion.[38] In another incident, an Iranian Christian 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.[39] As criticism grew on social media, the Home Office distanced itself from the decision, though it confirmed the letter was authentic.[40] Home Secretary Sajid Javid 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.[41]

The treatment of Christian asylum-seekers chimes with other incidents in the past, such as the refusal to grant visas to the Archbishop of Mosul to attend the consecration of the UK's first Syriac Orthodox Cathedral.[42][better source needed] In a 2017 study, the Christian Barnabas Fund found 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.[43]

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## References

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