A Short Guide to the Home Office
This guide is designed to provide a quick and accessible overview of the Department and focuses on what the Department does, how much it costs and key developments in its areas of work. For further...
View ArticleThe UK Border
Border management is fundamentally important to effective trade, tourism, national security and well-managed migration. It requires many parts of government to coordinate and make often complex...
View ArticleDepartmental Overview: Home Office 2017-18
The NAO is publishing a suite of Departmental Overviews, one for each government department and a selection of cross-government issues, to assist House of Commons Select Committees and Members of...
View ArticleThe UK border: preparedness for EU exit
There are risks to UK border operations if the UK leaves the EU without an agreement on 29 March 2019. Even with a withdrawal agreement, significant challenges lie ahead to ensure the UK border is...
View ArticleHandling of the Windrush situation
The Home Office did not deliberately deny the Windrush generation of their legal rights to be in the UK, but it failed to protect their needs when it designed and implemented its immigration policies....
View ArticleThe UK border: preparedness for EU exit update
This memorandum supports the Public Accounts Committee’s examination of the government’s preparedness for ‘no deal’
View ArticleContingency preparations for exiting the EU with no deal
This briefing describes the Civil Contingencies Secretariat's contingency preparations for the UK exiting the EU without a deal.
View ArticleInvestigation into the response to cheating in English language tests
The National Audit Office (NAO) has today published its investigation into the Home Office’s response to widespread cheating by international students in English language tests. Clearly widespread...
View ArticleHome Office’s management of its contract with G4S to run Brook House...
This memorandum focuses on the design, operation and oversight of the Home Office's contract with G4S to run Brook House.
View ArticleThe UK border: preparedness for EU exit October 2019
There are risks to the UK border if the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 31 October 2019. Government departments have done a great deal to prepare, but the National Audit Office (NAO) has found that...
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