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Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 (For the Year Ended 31 March 2014) Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Annual Report and Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 (For the year ended 31 March 2014) HC 21 Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 (For the year ended 31 March 2014) Accounts presented to the House of Commons pursuant to Section 6(4) of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 Annual Report presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty Annual Report and Accounts presented to the House of Lords by Command of Her Majesty Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 17 June 2014 HC 21 This is part of a series of departmental publications which, along with the Main Estimates 2014-15 and the document Public Expenditure: Statistical Analyses 2014, present the Government’s outturn for 2013-14 and planned expenditure for 2014-15. © Crown copyright 2014 You may re-use this information (excluding logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence v.2. To view this licence visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/ or email [email protected] Where third party material has been identified, permission from the respective copyright holder must be sought. 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 9781474105477 Web ISBN 9781474105484 Printed in the UK by the Williams Lea Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office ID 29051401 06/14 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimum Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Contents Page i Foreword from the Home Secretary 3 ii Foreword from the Permanent Secretary 5 Annual Report 1 Strategic Report Our Vision 6 Departmental Structure 6 Structural Reform Plans and Business Plan indicator progress Cutting crime 8 Reducing immigration 13 Prevent terrorism 17 Promoting growth 20 Reform Agenda Progress including Better Regulation 26 Capability and skills 27 Gender 27 Home Office Science 30 Sustainability 31 2 Transparency Reporting Transparency Programme 35 Value for Money 35 Spend on Consultancy/temporary staff 36 Complaints to the Parliamentary Ombudsman 37 Payments to suppliers 38 Performance in Responding to Correspondence from the Public 39 Off-payroll engagements 39 3 2013-14 Annual Accounts Directors’ Report 41 Lead Non-Executive Board Member’s Report 44 Our Ministers 45 Our Boards 45 Our Staff 47 Remuneration Report 50 Governance Statement 60 Data Losses / Information Assurance 74 Statement of Accounting Officer’s Responsibilities 75 The Certificate of the Comptroller & Auditor General to the House of Commons 76 Statement of Parliamentary Supply 78 1 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 3 2013-14 Annual Accounts continued Notes to the Departmental Resource Accounts (Statement of Parliamentary Supply) 79 Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Net Expenditure 87 Consolidated Statement of Financial Position 88 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows 89 Consolidated Statement of Changes in Taxpayers’ Equity 90 Notes to the departmental accounts 93 Annex – Departmental Core Data Tables 151 2 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Foreword by the Home Secretary, Theresa May As Home Secretary, my primary responsibility is keeping the people of the United Kingdom safe and secure. This includes overall responsibility for the police, counter-terrorism and the security of our borders. Since coming into Government, I have been clear that the Home Office’s core objectives are to cut crime, control immigration and prevent terrorism. Many of the changes I have introduced are taking effect. Police reform is working and crime is falling. Net migration from outside the EU is down by almost a third since its peak under the last Government. We continue to work with the police and Security Service to keep the public safe from terrorism. This report sets out how we are using taxpayers’ money in the course of our work, and demonstrates that we spend it carefully. Getting the economy back on track has meant the police have had to do more with less, but they have shown an impressive ability to make savings while still cutting crime – which is down more than ten per cent since the last election. So police reform is working and crime is falling. In the last year we have seen further damaging revelations about the police, and I am clear the police must demonstrate the highest standards of professional behaviour and integrity. We are putting in place a comprehensive package of measures to ensure this. I am stepping up the fight against organised crime significantly. The National Crime Agency, launched last October, has the power to coordinate and task law enforcement organisations, and to gather and use intelligence from across Government and beyond, so that more organised criminals can be brought to justice. On the same day as the agency was launched, we published the Government’s Serious and Organised Crime Strategy to drive our collective and relentless response to organised crime. In addition, we are also taking tough action to stamp out the appalling crime of modern slavery. Last December I published a draft Modern Slavery Bill – the first of its kind in Europe – to strengthen the punishment of offenders and the protection of victims. A robust and effective law enforcement response must also be part of the answer to pursue, disrupt and arrest slave drivers and traffickers, and we are working on a range of activity to support and protect victims, and prevent vulnerable people from falling prey to this terrible crime in the first place. In immigration, we have tightened immigration routes where abuse was rife, but we are still encouraging the brightest and best to come here to study and work. During this period we continued our successful reform of the immigration and border system: abolishing the UK Border Agency and creating two new operational commands UK Visas and Immigration and Immigration Enforcement in addition to Border Force, which was established as its own command in 2012. 2013 was a sobering year for those working in counter-terrorism. We witnessed the first terrorism-related fatalities in Britain since 2005 and appalling attacks against British nationals overseas. The terrorist threat continues to diversify, coming from a wide range of countries and groups. One of the biggest challenges we currently face is the growing threat from terrorist groups in Syria, who are attracting increasing numbers of foreign fighters including numbers in the low hundreds from this country. There is a risk these fighters will return radicalised and prepared to carry out an attack here. I would like to thank all those in the police and our security agencies who work so hard to keep us safe. We will continue to work together to protect the public, and strengthen our terrorism prevention programmes in line with the recommendations of the Extremism Task Force. Over the past year I believe there is much that we can reflect on and be proud to have achieved. I would like to thank all Home Office staff and those with whom we work for their ongoing commitment. 3 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 But there is still much work to be done. I am confident that we can continue to make progress in all areas of Home Office business as we continue to build a safe and secure Britain in which the people of this country can thrive and prosper. Theresa May Home Secretary 4 Home Office Annual Report and Accounts 2013-14 Foreword by the Permanent Secretary, Mark Sedwill Our priorities remain to cut crime, reduce immigration and prevent terrorism, whilst contributing to the government’s growth agenda. We have made good progress on all. Our counter-terrorism strategy and framework remain world-leading. Abu Qatada was deported to Jordan to face trial, Abu Hamza has been tried in the US, and we are now taking action to improve our ability to deport terrorist suspects through legislative and process changes. We are continuing to monitor events in Syria, and across the world, as part of our commitment to keeping the British public safe. Crime continues to fall, while we have continued our important work on police reform. We expanded the remit of the Independent Police Complaints Commission, strengthening its powers and increasing its resources. In addition, we have worked with the College of Policing on a package of measures to improve standards of professional behaviour and promote greater transparency. We also published the Modern Slavery Bill in December, which set out the action that is needed to eradicate slavery from the UK. This has also been a year of continued organisational change and transformation within the Home Office. We wound up the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the National Policing Improvement Agency and the National Fraud Authority. The mid year creation of the National Crime Agency (NCA) marked the biggest change in a decade in tackling the threat posed by serious and organised crime. The NCA is a powerful operational crime- fighting body with a strong mandate to disrupt and cut serious and organised crime nationally. 2013 was the first full operational year for Her Majesty’s Passport Office. We also completed the restructuring of the UK Border Agency and set up in its place three new commands within the Home Office – the new UK Visas & Immigration and Immigration Enforcement in addition to the previously established Border Force. Performance has improved across the system: 100% checks with no queues at the border, migration casework backlogs tackled and removals increased, while ensuring the UK continues to attract the brightest and the best from across the world.
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