Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism - Revision history

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 {{Template:Counter-Terrorism Portal badge}}
-The [[Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism]] (OSCT) is a directorate within the [[Home Office]] which leads work on counter-terrorism in the UK. It 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>
+The [[Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism]] (OSCT) is a directorate within the [[Home Office]] which leads work on counter-terrorism in the UK. It 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> In April 2021 it became the [[Homeland Security Group]].
 The other six agencies are:

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 *[[OSCT funding 2019]]
 *[[OSCT funding 2020]]
-*[[OSCT funding 2021]]
+*[[OSCT/Homeland Security Group funding 2021]]
-*[[OSCT funding 2022]]
+*[[Homeland Security Group funding 2022]]
-*[[OSCT funding 2023]]
+*[[Homeland Security Group funding 2023]]
-*[[OSCT funding 2024]]
+*[[Homeland Security Group funding 2024]]
 ==Notes==

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 *[[Matthew Sexton]]
 *[[Nisha Patel]]
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 <ref>https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/470088/51859_Cm9148_Accessible.pdf</ref>
-==Subsidiaries==
+==Directorates==
-*[[Research, Information and Communications Unit]]
+===Circa 2010===
 ==People==

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 *[[Charles Farr]] - head June 2007 until December 2015.<ref>https://www.gov.uk/government/people/charles-farr</ref>
 *[[Tom Hurd]] - successor, in post January 2016 until April 2021.
 ==Notes==

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 As of October 2009, it reported to Home Secretary [[Alan Johnson]] and Minister of State [[Phil Woolas]].<ref>[http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/about-the-directorate/ About us], Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Home Office, accessed 17 October 2009.</ref>
-According to the ''Guardian'', the OSCT is 'widely regarded in Whitehall as being an intelligence agency'.<ref name="Dodd">Vikram Dodd, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/16/anti-terrorism-strategy-spies-innocents Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent], guardian.co.uk, 16 October 2009.</ref> The Office's head, [[Charles Farr]], is a former senior intelligence officer, as is another un-named senior officer.<ref name="Dodd"/> In 2010 the OSCT website stated (prior to the incoming Cameron government) that one of its official functions was to 'manage the Home Secretary’s statutory relationship with the [[Security Service]]'<ref>Home Office. Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism [http://tna.europarchive.org/20100419081706/http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/ About us], This snapshot taken on 19/04/2010, shows web content selected for preservation by The National Archives, accessed 16 January 2011.</ref>
+According to the ''Guardian'', the OSCT is 'widely regarded in Whitehall as being an intelligence agency'.<ref name="Dodd">Vikram Dodd, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/16/anti-terrorism-strategy-spies-innocents Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent], guardian.co.uk, 16 October 2009.</ref> The Office's head, [[Charles Farr]], is a former senior intelligence officer, as is another un-named senior officer.<ref name="Dodd"/> In 2010 the OSCT website stated (prior to the incoming Cameron government) that one of its official functions was to 'manage the Home Secretary’s statutory relationship with the [[Security Service]]'<ref>Home Office. Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism [https://web.archive.org/web/20110501155137/http://tna.europarchive.org/20100419081706/http://security.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/ About us], This snapshot taken on 19/04/2010, shows web content selected for preservation by The National Archives.  Retrieved from the Internet Archive of 1 May 2011.</ref>
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