Home Office
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The Home Office is a United Kingdom government department, responsible for internal affairs, such as law and order throughout England and Wales. It continues to be known, especially in official papers, as in former times as the Home Department. The Permanent Secretary for the Home Department is Sir David Normington.
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[edit] Organization
The Home Office is currently undergoing a major reform programme, following well publicised issues earlier in 2006. This is the current organisation of the Home Office, but is likely to change. It is also immensely complex as there are many sub-groups within the Home Office such as NOMS - the National Offender Management Service, who look after HM Prison Service - an agency and other areas.
[edit] Ministers as of 14 August 2006
- Secretary of State for the Home Department (aka the "Home Secretary"): The Rt Hon.Dr John Reid MP
- Minister of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety): Tony McNulty MP
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety): Vernon Coaker MP
- Minister of State (Criminal Justice and Offender Management): The Rt Hon. The Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Criminal Justice and Offender Management): Gerry Sutcliffe MP
- Minister of State (Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration): The Rt Hon. Liam Byrne MP
- Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration): Joan Ryan MP
- Minister of State (Policing, Security and Community Safety): Tony McNulty MP
[edit] Permanent Under Secretaries of State of the Home Office
- Sir David Normington 2006–
- Sir John Gieve 2002–2006
- Sir David Omand 1997–2002
- Sir Richard Wilson 1994–1997
- Sir Clive Whitmore 1988–1994
- Sir Brian Cubbon 1979–1988
- Sir Robert Armstong 1977–1979
- Sir Arthur Peterson 1972–1977
- Sir Philip Allen 1966–1972
- Sir Charles Cunningham 1957–1966
- Sir Frank Newsam 1948–1957
- Sir Alexander Maxwell 1938–1948
- Sir Russell Scott 1932–1938
- Sir John Anderson 1922–1932
- Sir Edward Troup 1908–1922
- Sir Mackenzie Dalzell Chalmers 1903–1908
- Sir Kenelm Digby 1895–1903
- Sir David Lefmenn 1905–1943
[edit] Departmental agencies
- Assets Recovery Agency headed by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Crime, Security and Communities)
- Criminal Records Bureau headed by the Minister of State (Criminal Justice and Offender Management)
- Forensic Science Service headed by the Minister of State (Crime, Security and Communities)
- HM Prison Service headed by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Criminal Justice and Offender Management)
- Identity and Passport Service headed by the Minister of State (Immigration and Citizenship)
[edit] Location
From 1978 to 2004, the Home Office was located in a Brutalist block in Queen Anne's Gate in Westminster designed by Sir Basil Spence, close to St. James's Park tube station. Many functions, however, were devolved to offices in other parts of London and the country, notably the headquarters of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate in Croydon.
In Spring 2005, the Home Office moved to a new main office designed by Sir Terry Farrell at 2 Marsham Street, Westminster, on the site of the demolished Marsham Towers building of the Department of the Environment. The contract to build the new headquarters was a public-private partnership deal intended to last for around 29 years.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Home Office—main website
- Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies—gives a history of responsibilities of the Home Office, including which functions were merged into or transferred away from the Home Officeno:Home Office
