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 *2022-2025 - [[Andrew Scurry]] Director State Threats and Cyber at Homeland Security Group, Home Office<ref>https://committees.parliament.uk/event/24281/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/</ref>
 *2019-2025 - [[Duncan Tessier]] Director Economic Crime. Homeland Security Group, Home Office.<ref>https://www.cityforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/On-the-day-agenda-Economic-Crime-as-at-08.05.24.pdf</ref>
-*Sept 2020-2026 - [[Michael Stewart]] Michael Stewart – Director, Prevent and Counter-Extremism, Home Office<ref>https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Extremely-Confused-The-Governments-new-counter-extremism-review-revealed.pdf</ref>
+*Sept 2020-2026 - [[Michael Stewart]]  – Director, Prevent and Counter-Extremism, Home Office<ref>https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Extremely-Confused-The-Governments-new-counter-extremism-review-revealed.pdf</ref>
-*2025 - [[Jonathan Sinclair]]<ref></ref>
+*2021-2026 - [[Jonathan Sinclair]] - Director National Security, HSG, Home Office<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-sinclair-269275117/?originalSubdomain=uk</ref>
 ====Lower staff====

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 ==People==
-===Directors===
+===Directors General===
 *[[Charles Farr]] CMG OBE (June 2007 – December 2015) Appointed as the inaugural DG upon the creation of the OSCT. He stepped down to become the Chairman of the [[Joint Intelligence Committee]].
 *[[Thomas Hurd]] CB (April 2016 – March 2021) Succeeded Charles Farr and led the OSCT for five years. He stepped down in early 2021, shortly before the directorate was renamed.

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 Directors are usually in the SCS2 pay grade.
 *2022-2025 - [[Andrew Scurry]] Director State Threats and Cyber at Homeland Security Group, Home Office<ref>https://committees.parliament.uk/event/24281/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/</ref>
-*2025 - [[Duncan Tessier]]
+*2019-2025 - [[Duncan Tessier]] Director Economic Crime. Homeland Security Group, Home Office.<ref>https://www.cityforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/On-the-day-agenda-Economic-Crime-as-at-08.05.24.pdf</ref>
-*2025 - [[Michael Stewart]]
+*Sept 2020-2026 - [[Michael Stewart]] Michael Stewart – Director, Prevent and Counter-Extremism, Home Office<ref>https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Extremely-Confused-The-Governments-new-counter-extremism-review-revealed.pdf</ref>
-*2025 - [[Jonathan Sinclair]]
+*2025 - [[Jonathan Sinclair]]<ref></ref>
 ====Lower staff====

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 ====Directors====
 Directors are usually in the SCS2 pay grade.
-*2025 - [[Andrew Scurry]] Director State Threats and Cyber at Homeland Security Group, Home Office<ref>https://committees.parliament.uk/event/24281/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/</ref>
+*2022-2025 - [[Andrew Scurry]] Director State Threats and Cyber at Homeland Security Group, Home Office<ref>https://committees.parliament.uk/event/24281/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/</ref>
 *2025 - [[Duncan Tessier]]
 *2025 - [[Michael Stewart]]

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 ===Other staff===
-====Directors===
+====Directors====
 Directors are usually in the SCS2 pay grade.
 *2025 - [[Andrew Scurry]] Director State Threats and Cyber at Homeland Security Group, Home Office<ref>https://committees.parliament.uk/event/24281/formal-meeting-oral-evidence-session/</ref>

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 ===Other staff===
 *[[Chris Barrett Allen]] - Senior Policy Manager - Homeland Security Group · UK Home Office, Mar 2022 – Present.
 ** Strategy Lead – [[Joint Extremism Unit]] [[Ministry of Justice]] UK Jul 2019 - Mar 2022

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 The Homeland Security Group was created in April 2021<ref>https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/home-office-appoints-director-of-homeland-security</ref> and is the new name for the [[Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism]] in the [[Home Office]].  Like the OSCT the HSG is one of the ‘seven Agencies and Departments which form the UK Intelligence Community’.<ref>Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament [https://web.archive.org/web/20200311054459/https://isc.independent.gov.uk/how-the-committee-works/ How the Committee works]. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 11 March 2020.</ref><ref>Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament [https://web.archive.org/web/20220615102031/https://isc.independent.gov.uk/how-the-committee-works/ How the Committee works]. Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 15 June 2022.</ref>
 The other six agencies are:
 *[[MI5]] (the Security Service);

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 **Researcher (Hillsborough Inquiry) [[Independent Office for Police Conduct]] Mar 2016 - Jun 2019 · 3 yrs 4 mos United Kingdom
 **Intern The Independent Sep 2015 · 1 mo London, United Kingdom<ref>https://archive.ph/Rz28g</ref>
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