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Home Office Short Guide A Short Guide to the Home Office June 2015 Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism | About this guide This Short Guide summarises what the | Contact details Home Office does, how much it costs, recent and planned changes and what to look out for across its main business areas and services. If you would like to know more about the NAO’s work on the Home Office, please contact: Louise Bladen Director of Home Affairs Value for Money [email protected] 020 7798 7587 If you are interested in the NAO’s work and support The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending for Parliament and is independent of government. The Comptroller and Auditor General for Parliament more widely, please contact: (C&AG), Sir Amyas Morse KCB, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO, which employs some 810 people. The C&AG Adrian Jenner certifies the accounts of all government departments and many other Director of Parliamentary Relations public sector bodies. He has statutory authority to examine and report [email protected] to Parliament on whether departments and the bodies they fund have used their resources efficiently, effectively, and with economy. Our 020 7798 7461 studies evaluate the value for money of public spending, nationally and locally. Our recommendations and reports on good practice For full iPad interactivity, please view this PDF help government improve public services, and our work led to Interactive in iBooks or GoodReader audited savings of £1.15 billion in 2014. © National Audit Office Design & Production by NAO Communications – DP Ref: 10710-001 Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism Key facts 234 persons arrested for £15.0 billion terrorism-related offences in the UK from July 2013 to September 2014 About the gross expenditure in 2014-15 Home Office 201 terrorism-related offenders in Key trends custody at the end of February 2015 Department spending 32,797 318,000 average number of full-time net fl ow of long-term migrants Spending equivalent persons into the UK in the year ending reductions employed in 2014-15 December 2014 Staff and pay Staff attitudes 3.8 million 387,509 and engagement offences recorded work or study related visas in England and Wales in the granted to non-European Major programmes year ending December 2014 Economic Area nationals in the year ending March 2015 and developments Key themes from NAO reports 127,075 police offi cers 5.6 million passports issued Appendix employed in England and Wales in 2013-14 at the end of September 2014 Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism The Home Office (the Department) is the lead government department for crime, the police, drugs policy, immigration and Key facts passports, and counter terrorism. It has four priorities: cut crime; reduce immigration; prevent terrorism; and promote growth by keeping the UK safe. About the Home Office Cut crime Reduce immigration Prevent terrorism Support the police in cutting crime through Develop and implement policies to reduce Reduce the risk to the UK and its interests overseas, Key trends work to: improve police accountability, net migration and tackle abuse, while by stopping terrorist attacks; stopping people transparancy and integrity and public trust; attracting and retaining the brightest and becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism; improve police efficiency and effectiveness best migrants to work, study or invest in strengthening protection against terrorist attacks and lead targeted action on key crime types. the UK. and mitigating the impact of terrorist attacks. Department spending Crime and Policing Group HM Passport Office Office for Security and Counter Terrorism Spending Police and Crime Commissioners Border Force reductions Police Forces UK Visas and Immigration Immigration Enforcement Staff and pay International and Immigration Policy Group Promote growth by keeping the College of Policing Office of the Immigration National Crime Agency (also part UK safe Staff attitudes Services Commissioner of ‘cut crime’ priority) Independent Police Complaints Commission and engagement Disclosure and Barring Service Major programmes Security Industry Authority and developments Gangmasters Licensing Authority Key themes from NAO reports Policing Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism Appendix Directorate within the Home Office The Home Office has overall responsibility in central government for police forces but Police and Crime Commissioners set out annual objectives, funds to achieve Non-departmental public body them and hold police forces accountable on behalf of the local electorate. The Non-Ministerial Government Department (outside Home Office College of Policing was established as a limited company in December 2012. boundary but remains accountable to the Home Secretary) Note 1 The Home Offi ce departmental boundary encompasses the central government Department and its directorates, fi ve non-departmental public bodies and the College of Policing. Until 2013-14, it also had two executive agencies, HM Passport Offi ce (which was transferred into the Department in October 2014) and the National Fraud Authority (which was closed in March 2014). Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism Number of crimes 2004–2014 Number of persons arrested for terrorism-related offences in the Key facts UK by outcome 2004–2014 Million 12 90 About the 80 10 Home Office 70 8 60 Key trends 50 6 40 4 30 Department 20 2 spending 10 0 0 Earlier Jul Oct Jan Apr Jul Oct Jan Apr Jul 2004- 2005- 2006- 2007- 2008- 2009- 2010- 2011- Yr end Yr end Spending data not to to to to to to to to to 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Dec Dec available Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep Dec Mar Jun Sep reductions 2013 2014 Crime Survey England and Wales 2012 2013 2014 Staff and pay Police recorded crime Alternative action Released without being charged Charged Source: Office for National Statistics Source: Home Office Staff attitudes and engagement Net migration 2005–2014 Number of removals and voluntary departures from the UK 2004–2014 Major programmes 700,000 35,000 and developments 600,000 30,000 500,000 25,000 Key themes from NAO reports 400,000 20,000 300,000 15,000 Appendix 200,000 10,000 100,000 5,000 0 0 Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec Jun Dec 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Total refused entry at port and subsequently departed Total enforced removals Net migration Immigration Emigration Total voluntary departures Source: Office for National Statistics Source: Home Office Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism Key facts About the Crime and Home Office Income Policing Group £83.1m £10.8bn Key trends Income £179.0m Department spending Back-office functions2 Income £1.1m £1.0bn Spending International and Immigration Policy Group Income £182.6m reductions £41.4m Staff and pay 2014-15 Office of Security and Counter Terrorism Total Home Office £954.1m Income Expenditure Notes Staff attitudes £507.6 m £15.0bn 1 Gross spend in 2014-15 was £15.0 billion, with income of £2.0 billion, reducing the net and engagement Income £1.0bn Total Home Office public expenditure to £13.0 billion. Income 2 Back-offi ce functions includes Corporate HM Passport Office £2.0bn Major programmes Services, Communications Directorate, £403.0m UK Visas and Human Resources Directorate & Strategy, and developments Immigration Delivery and Private Offi ce Group. £8 37.2m 3 The NCA is a Non Ministerial Government Key themes from Department and is outside the Home Offi ce’s departmental boundary. The NAO reports fi nances of the NCA are not consolidated Income into Home Offi ce accounts. They are £29.8m Income presented here to illustrate the extent of Appendix £7.8 m public expenditure on the organisations National Crime Agency3 Immigration relating to the Home Offi ce which deal with Border Force Net expenditure Enforcement organised crime and counter terrorism. £525.1m £434.7m £466.0m 4 Figures for the National Crime Agency are taken from the organisation’s 2014-15 Annual Report. Central Department Directorate Non Ministerial Government Department 5 Figures for the Home Offi ce are taken from Note 2 – Statement of Operating Costs by Segment within the Department’s accounts for the year ending 31 March 2015. Source: Home Offi ce Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15, National Crime Agency Annual Report and Accounts 2014-15 Overview Police Borders and Identity and Organised Crime and Immigration Passports Counter Terrorism The Department and the National Crime Agency together spent Key facts Home Office Net Expenditure (adjusted) during Spending Review Period 10.3%, or £1.54 billion in real terms, less in 2014-15 than spending on like for like functions in 2010-11 (see Note below). Net Expenditure (£bn) 16 About the Savings have been achieved in large part by reducing: Home Office • funding to the police; Key trends 15 • staff costs by means of a wage cap and decreasing staff numbers; and Department 14 spending • spending on IT and consultancy. If one-off costs in 2014-15 of £610 million (£460 million on Spending meeting higher police pensions costs following a ruling by the reductions 13 Pensions Ombudsman, and £150 million on a settlement with Raytheon Systems Ltd covering the terminated e-borders contract Staff and pay in 2010) are excluded, real terms savings of 14.5% have been 12 made since 2010-11. Staff attitudes and engagement 11 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Major programmes and developments Notes 1 From 1 April 2013, grant funding to local policing bodies transferred from the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Home Office.
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