Secretary of State for the Home Department - Rt Hon
MP
The Secretary of State has overall responsibility for all Home
Office business, including:
- security and terrorism
- legislative programme
- expenditure issues
Minister of State (Minister for Security) - Rt Hon
MP
The minister’s responsibilities are:
- counter terrorism – prepare, prevent, pursue, protect
- serious and organised crime
- cybercrime
- economic crime
- hostile state activity
- extradition
- royal and VIP protection
- online harms
- Common Travel Area
- aviation and maritime security
- Commons lead on transition period (named EU Exit Operations
board deputy)
- fire
- Grenfell
- flooding/hurricane/natural disaster relief
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for
Safeguarding) -
The minister’s responsibilities are:
- modern slavery and the national referral mechanism
- domestic abuse
- violence against women and girls including female genital
mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage
- early youth intervention on serious violence
- Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
- victims
- child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
- Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
- sexual violence including the rape review
- anti-social behaviour
- prostitution
- stalking
- online internet safety/WeProtect
- victims of terrorism
- Security Industry Authority
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for
Immigration Compliance and the Courts) -
The minister’s responsibilities for the Home Office:
- compliance environment
- detention
- returns
- foreign national offenders
- illegal immigration strategy
- overseas development aid
- Immigration Enforcement
- asylum
- resettlement
- casework
- nationality
- animals (illegal wildlife trade)
- sponsorship of Border Force and Immigration Enforcement
directorates
- supporting Lords Minister on corporate affairs, including the
Spending Review and Budget
The minister’s responsibilities for Ministry of Justice:
- foreign national offenders and removing barriers to removal
- immigration system legal reform
- joint Spending Review bids (working with Kit Malthouse)
- immigration crime sentencing reform
- detained fast track
- sentencing
- court and tribunal services and reform
- court and tribunal fees
- administrative justice
- supporting the Secretary of State on departmental finance
Minister of State (Minister for Crime and Policing) -
The minister’s responsibilities for the Home Office:
- policing
- crime
- county lines
- criminal justice system
- acquisitive crime
- public protection and protests
- undercover policing
- Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire &
Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
- police technology
- police powers
- facial recognition
- major events
- football policing
- reoffending
- unauthorised encampments
- firearms
- serious violence
- drugs and alcohol
The minister’s responsibilities for Ministry of
Justice:
- cross-cutting criminal justice system issues. In particular:
-
- rape review
- cross-criminal justice system demand
- swift justice with knife crime focus
- reducing reoffending (joint work with )
- support on criminal justice board and Prime Minister’s Crime
Taskforce
- electronic monitoring (joint work with )
- drugs and alcohol
- joint Spending Review bids
Lords Minister -
The Lords Minister has responsibility for:
- overall corporate lead including Spending Review and Budget
- data and identity
- enablers
- digital and technology including the emergency services
network
- public appointments
- sponsorship unit
- countering extremism
- hate crime
- forensic science and DNA
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for
Future Borders and Immigration) -
The minister’s responsibilities are:
- design and implementation of the UK’s points-based system
- design and implementation of digital and secure borders
including Electronic Travel Authorities
- counting in and counting out
- current and future visa system including fees
- global visa operations
- net migration
- immigration rules
- immigration system simplification
- exit checks
- Immigration Bill
- EU Settlement Scheme
- casework
- sponsorship of UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), Her Majesty’s
Passport Office (HMPO) and Borders, Immigration and Citizenship
System (BICS) policy directorates