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Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 (For the year ended 31 March 2019) Page left intentionally blank Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 (For the year ended 31 March 2019) Accounts presented to the House of Commons pursuant to Section 6(4) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 and Section 2(3) of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 Annual Report presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 6 June 2019 HC 2193 This is part of a series of departmental publications which along with the Main Estimates 2018-19 and the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2018, present the Government’s outturn for 2018-19 and planned expenditure for 2019-20 © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. 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This publication is available at www.gov.uk/government/publications Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at Direct Communications Unit, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF Telephone: 020 7035 4848 (09:00-17:00 Mon-Fri) Fax: 020 7035 4745 Print ISBN: 978-1-5286-1356-9 CCS 0619352314 06/19 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Printed in the UK by APS Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office CONTENTS Contents 1 THE PERFORMANCE REPORT Overview Home Secretary – Introduction 6 Permanent Secretary – Foreword 7 Purpose and activities of the Home Office 9 Performance Analysis Our performance in 2018-19 10 Performance overview 11 Sustainability Report 31 Better Regulation 41 2 THE ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT Corporate Governance Report Directors’ Report 43 Statement of Accounting Officer’s Responsibilities 50 Governance Statement 51 Remuneration and Staff Report Staffing 73 Remuneration Policy 87 Remuneration and Pension entitlements 89 Parliamentary accountability and audit report Statement of Parliamentary Supply 98 Notes to the Departmental Resource Accounts (Statement of Parliamentary Supply) 99 Losses and Special Payments 104 Fees and charges 106 Remote contingent liabilities 107 Certificate and Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General 110 3 THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure 115 Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 116 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 117 Consolidated Statement of Changes in Taxpayers’ Equity 118 Notes to the Departmental accounts 122 4 TRUST STATEMENT Introduction to the Trust Statement 161 Our Performance 163 Our controls and governance 164 External Scrutiny 165 Our income and expenditure 168 Notes to the Trust Statement 171 Glossary 181 1 PERFORMANCE REPORT 2 ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 4 TRUST STATEMENT HOME OFFICE Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 Introduction The first duty of Leaving the EU has, of course, We have given police additional been a central priority. Not only is powers, made it more difficult for Government is the the Home Office responsible for young people to buy knives, and safety of our citizens. designing and implementing our announced a new £100 million post-Brexit immigration system, Serious Violence Fund to allocate And in the past year, the Home but we have also been making emergency resources. Office has worked to tackle violent extensive preparations for no-deal. crime, fight terrorism, and secure We’ve set aside over £220 million our borders. Our EU Settlement Scheme is for early intervention work, to offer now fully operational. By the end our young people a real alternative But our remit is wider than that. of March, I am pleased to say that to a life of violence. We do everything from supporting we had successfully processed victims of domestic abuse, over 210,000 applications, free And we have delivered on my own to fighting fires, to resettling of charge. personal priority by establishing Syrian refugees. a Windrush Task Force, to put We have also been working with right the wrongs suffered by that This report is a record of all that our European allies to ensure generation. We have already the Home Office has achieved in that, whatever the outcome, we granted citizenship to over 3,600 the last year, as well as a public can continue to cooperate on people, and the compensation account of how we have spent intelligence and security. scheme is now open. taxpayers’ money. We have expanded our capacity There is no quick fix or easy The past 12 months have seen the to meet these new demands; the solution to the issues we face, but department rise to meet significant Home Office now employs almost I am proud to say that the Home challenges. Our work has hardly 35,000 full-time staff. Office has risen to the challenge ever been out of the news. through the competence, Domestically, we have prioritised professionalism, and dedication of tackling the shocking rise in our staff. knife crime. I am immensely proud of all that we have achieved this year. Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP Secretary of State for the Home Department 6 PERFORMANCE REPORT Foreword The Home Office has one The EU Settlement Scheme went We launched the Serious and live this year, offering 3.5 million Organised Crime Strategy, setting of the most challenging EU citizens the means to secure out our response to the full remits in government: to cut their status so they can continue range of serious and organised crime, prevent terrorism, living their lives in the UK after crime threats, and refreshed the EU Exit, just as they do now. The national strategy to tackle violence control immigration, protect scheme has been designed with against women and girls. We have the vulnerable and respond EU citizens in mind and seeks to intensified the effort to tackle knife place their needs at the heart of crime; granting additional powers to crises. every element of the design. It is a for police and developing the The Annual Report and Accounts great example of the more user- Serious Violence Strategy and the sets out what the Department has focused way of working we are Youth Endowment Fund. Backed achieved over the past year with adopting as we develop our Future by over £300 million of funding, the money allocated by Parliament Border and Immigration System. the strategy puts greater focus on and provides an overview of how steering young people away from Windrush has rightly brought we are organised and governed. a life of crime. the Home Office under renewed EU Exit has remained a core focus scrutiny. We are taking steps As the Permanent Secretary, I for the Home Office in 2018-19 to put things right for those remain incredibly proud of the and the Department has delivered affected by running a taskforce dedicated public servants from an enormous amount of work to identify them and setting up across the Home Office system. to prepare for this. Since the the compensation scheme. We The often difficult work they do is referendum, we have recruited are capturing the lessons learned vital in keeping our citizens safe more than 4,000 people to work through an independent review and our country secure. in EU Exit roles across the Home to ensure the same mistakes are Office; 900 of them to protect never repeated. Sir Philip Rutnam our borders. Permanent Secretary 28 May 2019 7 1 PERFORMANCE REPORT 2 ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 4 TRUST STATEMENT 1 PERFORMANCE REPORT 8 PERFORMANCE REPORT Purpose and activities The first duty of the government is to keep Goals citizens safe and the country secure. The Our priorities1 are to: Home Office has been at the front line of 1. Cut crime and the harm it causes, including this endeavour since 1782. As such, the cybercrime and serious and organised crime Home Office plays a fundamental role in 2. Manage civil emergencies within the remit of the the security and economic prosperity of Home Office the United Kingdom. 3. Protect vulnerable people and communities The Home Office is a ministerial department, 4. Reduce terrorism supported by 30 agencies and public bodies. The Home Office is the lead government department for 5. Control migration immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, 6. Provide world-class public services and contribute counter-terrorism and police. to prosperity This report focuses on the period 1 April 2018 to 7. Maximise the benefits of the United Kingdom 31 March 2019 (and includes updates available leaving the European Union before the document was printed). In some instances, due to the availability of data, other time periods are referenced. Details of our future plans are available online in our Single Departmental Plan. It is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ home-office-single-departmental-plan Responsibilities We are responsible for: • reducing and preventing crime, and ensuring people feel safe in their homes and communities • supporting visible, responsible and accountable policing by empowering the public and freeing up the police to fight crime • fire prevention and rescue • keeping the United Kingdom safe from the threat of terrorism and extremism • securing the UK border and controlling immigration by considering applications to enter and stay in the UK and by issuing passports and visas 1 To note the Home Office is moving to reporting against 12 goals for 2019-20, as will be shown in an update of the Single Departmental Plan. This will be reflected in the 2019-20 Annual Report and Accounts. 9 1 PERFORMANCE REPORT 2 ACCOUNTABILITY REPORT 3 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 4 TRUST STATEMENT HOME OFFICE Annual Report and Accounts 2018-19 Performance Analysis – Our performance in 2018-19 Outturn and the Estimate Going Concern In accordance with the The Consolidated Statement of Government Financial Reporting Financial Position as at 31 March Manual, explanations are provided 2019 shows taxpayers’ equity for significant variances between of £(402) million, a reduction the Net Estimate and Net Outturn.