Its aim is to protect the public and secure our future.
The Home Office leads a national effort to protect the public from terror, crime and anti-social behaviour. We secure our borders and welcome legal migrants and visitors. We safeguard identity and citizenship. We help build the security, justice and respect that enable people to prosper in a free and tolerant society.
Here is a list of ministers who work for the Department.
Home Secretary
Responsibilities:
The Home Secretary has overall responsibility for the work of the Home Office:
- Crime reduction
- Security
- Counter-terrorism
- Immigration
- Civil emergencies
- Expenditure issues
She is also the ministerial adviser on parliamentary affairs
Minister of State for Borders and Immigration and Minister for the West Midlands
Liam Byrne MP
Responsibilities:
- Border and Immigration Agency
- Strengthening borders, including e-borders programme
- Visas and biometric visas
- Asylum, including legacy
- Enforcement and removals, including Enforcement strategy
- Managed migration, including Points-Based System
- Wider impacts of migration
- Migration Advisory Committee
- Migration Impacts Forum
- Citizenship
- Strategic oversight on Identity
- HO work on business and the economy, including relations with the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
- Ministerial champion for Better Regulation
Key NDPBs:
- Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner
Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing
Tony McNulty
Responsibilities:
- Oversight and development of the Counter Terrorism Strategy
- Counter Terrorism legislation, including legal sanctions against terrorism
- Overall Crime Strategy
- Strategy for policing, including Review of Policing
- Police reform, police pay, police performance
- Neighbourhood Policing
- Protective Services
- Reform of Crime Statistics
- International Policy for the Home Office, including relations with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Legislation and Parliamentary Business lead for Home Office
Key NDPBs:
- National Policing Improvement Agency
- Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
- Independent Police Complaints Commission
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Crime Reduction
Vernon Coaker
Responsibilities:
- Support to the Minister of State on Crime and Policing, especially on crime
- Crime Prevention
- Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnerships (CDRPs)
- Youth Crime & Guns, Gangs, and Knives
- Drugs & alcohol
- Anti-Social Behaviour
- Victims lead
- Serious and organised crime, and asset recovery
- Sexual Offending, including Prostitution
- Domestic Violence and Forced Marriage
- Child Abuse & Child Exploitation
- Security Industry
- Public order and football policing
- Home Office lead on Criminal Justice (member of National Criminal Justice Board)
- Relations with Department for Children, Schools and Families; Department of Health; Ministry of Justice
- Ministerial Performance Champion
Key NDPBs:
- Serious Organised Crime Agency
- Asset Recovery Agency (until incorporated into SOCA)
- Security Industry Authority
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Security and Counter-terrorism
Admiral Sir Alan West GCB DSC
Responsibilities:
- Working with the Minister of State to develop the overall Counter Terrorism Strategy
- Implementation of the Counter Terrorism Strategy, except for legislative aspects
- Development of other Government Departments’ contributions to the Counter Terrorism Strategy
- Counter-terrorism science and technology, including chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological preparation
- Olympic Security
- Extradition
- Judicial Co-operation
- Relations with the Ministry of Defence
- All Home Office business in the House of Lords
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Identity
Meg Hillier MP
Responsibilities:
- Support to Minister of State on Immigration and Asylum, especially casework
- The Identity and Passport Service
- Identity cards and the identity management programme; and use of biometrics
- Using identity management to transform public services
- The Criminal Records Bureau, criminal records, and criminality-based data
- Safeguarding vulnerable people, including vetting and barring
- Refugee Integration and the wider ‘newcomer agenda’
- Race & Equality Issues
- Science, Technology and Research
- Local Government and local communities, including relations with CLG
- Support for Minister of State on International policy, with specific responsibility for EU matters
- Departmental lead on Freedom of Information; and Environmental issues
- Correspondence Champion
Key NDPBs:
- Independent Safeguarding Authority
- Forensic Science Service
Contact department
For all general enquiries please contact:
Home Office
Direct Communications Unit
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
- Our Telephone number is: 0207 035 4848 (0900 - 1700 Monday to Friday)
- Minicom: 0207 035 4742 (0900 - 1700 Monday to Friday)
- Our Fax Number is: 0207 035 4745
E-mail: public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
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