On 28 June 2007, the Prime Minister announced a series of Machinery of Government and other changes [External website] to sharpen the focus of Government on the new and very different challenges that Britain will face in the years ahead. A paper explaining these changes in detail has been placed in the Libraries of both Houses and available in the following formats:
On 29 March 2007, the Prime Minister announced machinery of Government changes to the Home Office and the Department of Constitutional Affairs. This was announced by a Written Ministerial Statement and further detail is avialable in the Cabinet Office report, ‘Machinery of Government: Security and Counter–Terrorism, and the Criminal Justice System’
This document sets out how Government Departments will work together to deliver the Government's priorities for crime and the criminal justice system in the light of the Machinery of Government changes which took effect on 9 May 2007.