Home Office

This article is part of the Counter-Terrorism Portal project of Spinwatch.

The Home Office is a leading British governmental department that is responsible for policy issues surrounding immigration, passports, drugs, crime, the police and counterterrorism. The current leader of the Home Office is Theresa May (MP).

The Home Office has two main sister departments that are involved in work surrounding immigration, passports and counterterrorism. These are: the Identity and Passport Service and the UK Border Agency.

Goals

The Home Office states that its aims and objectives are based on seven key issues:

• Help people feel safer in their homes and local communities
• Support visible, responsive and accountable policing
• Protect the public from terrorist attack
• Cut crime, especially violent, drug and alcohol-related crime
• Strengthen our borders, fast track asylum decisions, ensure and enforce compliance with our immigration laws, and boost Britain's economy
• Safeguard people's identity and the privileges of citizenship
• Work with our partners to build an efficient, effective and proportionate criminal justice system

People

Ministers

• Theresa May - Secretary of State for the Home Department
• Norman Baker - Minister of State for Crime Prevention
• James Brokenshire - Minister for Security and Immigration
• Mike Penning - Minister of State for Policing, Criminal Justice and Victims
• Karen Bradley - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime)
• Michael Bates - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Criminal Information

Special Advisers

• Nick Timothy
• Stephen Parkinson