Home Office
The Home Office leads a national effort to protect the public from terror, crime and anti'social behaviour. We secure our borders and welcome legal migrants and visitors. We safeguard identity and citizenship. We help build the security, justice and respect that enable people to prosper in a free and tolerant society.
Contact information
- Address: 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF
- Website: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/ [External website]
- Telephone: 020 7035 4848
- Generic Email format: firstname.surname@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Parliamentary Branch
All Correspondence enquiries
- Telephone: 020 7035 4848 (General)
0845 602 1739 / 0845 609 0395 (Immigration enquiries)
- Fax: 020 7035 4745
MPs Correspondence enquiries
Enquiries relating to immigration and nationality issues should be directed to:
UK Border Agency
Apollo House
36 Wellesley Road
Croydon CR9 3RR
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Ministers
Secretary of State for the Home Department: The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP
Alan Johnson
Leads on:
- The Secretary of State holds overall responsibility for the business of the Department and its policies
- Security
- Counter-terrorism
- Civil emergencies
- Expenditure issues
Private Office to The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP
Minister of State (Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing): The Rt Hon David Hanson MP
David Hanson
Leads on:
- Strategy and policy on the police, including delivering new performance management arrangements and the confidence target; the policing pledge; cutting bureaucracy and neighbourhood policing; NPIA, police leadership and modernisation
- Overall lead on crime, in particular violent crime and youth crime strategy
- Community confidence
- Security and counter terrorism, with particular responsibility for CT and policing; PREVENT; and oversight of CT legislation
- Magee review
Private Office to The Rt Hon David Hanson MP
Minister of State (Borders and Immigration) and Minister for the North West: Phil Woolas MP
Phil Woolas
Leads on:
- Border security, including visas and border force
- Controlling migration
- Immigration enforcement
- Nationality and citizenship, including earned citizenship
- Visas and biometric visas
- Strategic oversight on Identity
- International policy
- Minister for the North West
Also Minister of State at HM Treasury
Private Office to Phil Woolas MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Identity): Meg Hillier
Meg Hillier
Leads on:
- Identity and Passport Service
- Identity cards and identity management
- Criminal records and criminal information systems
- Safeguarding vulnerable people, including ISA
- Support to David Hanson on violent crime – Tackling Knives Action Programme and Tackling Guns Action Programme
- Support to Phil Woolas on borders and immigration
- Race & Equality Issues
- Home Office EU business
- Home Office science including HOSDB (Home Office Scientific Development Branch)
- Departmental lead on Freedom of Information, Correspondence, Environmental issues and local government
Private Office to Meg Hillier
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Crime Reduction): Alan Campbell MP
Alan Campbell
Leads on:
- Supports Minister of State, in particular in relation to:
- Anti Social Behaviour
- Drugs and Alcohol Strategies
- Women’s Safety, domestic violence and forced marriage
- Sexual offending, including prostitution
- Violent Crime
- Youth Crime
- Women’s Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (member of National Criminal Justice Board)
- Sexual offending, including prostitution
- Violent Crime
- Forensic Science Service and DNA
- Serious and Organised crime and asset recovery
- Security Industry Authority
- Public order, including football policing
- Parliamentary Business lead
Private Office to Alan Campbell MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Security and Counter-terrorism): The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC
Lord West
Leads on:
- CONTEST strategy and implementation
- PURSUE – policy, operations, individual cases
- PREPARE
- PROTECT
- Counter-terrorism science and technology
- Olympic Security
- Counter Terrorism international business
- Home Office role in national security strategy
- Extradition, mutual legal assistance and judicial co-operation
- All Home Office business in the House of Lords
Private Office to The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC
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Private Offices
Private Office to The Rt Hon Alan Johnson MP
Private Office to The Rt Hon David Hanson MP
Private Office to Phil Woolas MP
Private Office to Meg Hillier
Private Office to Alan Campbell MP
Private Office to The Lord West of Spithead GCB DSC
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Executive Agencies
Criminal Records Bureau
An Executive Agency of the Home Office provides wider access to criminal record information through its Disclosure service. This service enables organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors to make safer recruitment decisions by identifying candidates who may be unsuitable for certain work, especially that involve children or vulnerable adults. The CRB was established under Part V of the Police Act 1997 and was launched in March 2002.
Identity and Passport Service
The Identity and Passport Service was established as an Executive Agency of the Home Office on 1 April 2006. The Agency builds on the strong foundations of the UK Passport Service (UKPS) to provide passport services and in the future, as part of the National Identity Scheme, ID cards for British and Irish nationals resident in the UK. Foreign nationals resident in the UK will also be included by linking the scheme to biometric immigration documents.
The development of the National Identity Scheme builds on the changes being made to passports to provide a secure and straightforward way to safeguard personal identities from misuse.
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UK Border Agency
The UK Border Agency is responsible for securing the United Kingdom borders and controlling migration in the United Kingdom. We manage border control for the United Kingdom, enforcing immigration and customs regulations. We also consider applications for permission to enter or stay in the United Kingdom, citizenship and asylum.
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