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Home Office - National Crime Agency: Framework Document for the National Crime Agency

By: Great Britain: Home Office,National Crime Agency

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Home Office - National Crime Agency: Framework Document for the National Crime Agency

By: Great Britain: Home Office,National Crime Agency

This document sets out the respective roles and responsibilities of the Home Secretary and the Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and the principles that will govern the relationship between the Home Office and the NCA. It also sets out the ways in which the NCA will operate under the Crime and Courts Act 2013, covering accountability, management, operational and financial arrangements.

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A summary of responses to the Cabinet Office's consultation document "Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists"

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

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A summary of responses to the Cabinet Office's consultation document "Introducing a statutory register of lobbyists"

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

The consultation paper published in January 2012 (Cm. 8233, ISBN 9780101823326)

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code B: Revised Code of Practice for Searches of Premises by Police Officers and the Seizure of Property Found by Police Officers on Persons or Premises

Code B: Revised Code of Practice for Searches of Premises by Police Officers and the Seizure of Property Found by Police Officers on Persons Or Premises

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code B: Revised Code of Practice for Searches of Premises by Police Officers and the Seizure of Property Found by Police Officers on Persons or Premises

Code B: Revised Code of Practice for Searches of Premises by Police Officers and the Seizure of Property Found by Police Officers on Persons Or Premises

By: Great Britain: Home Office

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) and its Codes of Practice are a vital part of the legislative framework that lays out police powers for combating crime. Code B governs the exercise by police of statutory powers of entry to search premises and to seize and retain property found on premises and persons. This Code of Practice must be readily available at all police stations for consultation by police officers, police staff, detained persons and members of the public. This code applies to applications for warrants made after 00.00 on 27 October 2013

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The Cabinet Office and the centre of Government

4th report of session 2009-10, report with evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution

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The Cabinet Office and the centre of Government

4th report of session 2009-10, report with evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Constitution

The House of Lords Constitution Committee have today published their 4th report of the 2009-10 session on 'The Cabinet Office and the Centre of Government' (HLP 30, ISBN 9780108459320) in which they suggest that power within the cabinet has become increasingly centralised to the Prime Minister and recommend that structures of accountability should be reformed to mirror that change. The Committee expresses support for the principles of collective responsibility but recognise that increasingly the Cabinet Office has become responsible for overseeing the delivery of government policy across departments. They stress that accountability mechanisms within the UK constitution are not set up to reflect this new reality with parliamentary and select committee scrutiny based on individual Ministers reporting to Parliament for activities within their departments. The Committee also considers the role of the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and state that the responsibilities of the post are currently poorly defined. They recommend that the Government reassess the functions of the Minister for the Cabinet Office to ensure that the postholder's responsibilities accurately reflect the strategic role the Cabinet Office plays in delivering government policy. The report goes on to consider the approach taken to changes to the machinery of government and the change in the role and function of the Lord Chancellor which took place during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister. The Committee states that the process of change involved ’wholly inadequate' consultation both within government and with the senior judiciary, and further states that there was "no justification for failure to consult on these important reforms". The Committee recommends that in future the Cabinet Office should play a formal role in investigating any machinery of government changes, particularly those with constitutional implications.

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code A: Revised Code of Practice for the Exercise by: Police Officers of Statutory Powers of Stop and Search: Police Officeers and Police Staff of Requirements to Record Public Encounters

Code A: Revised Code of Practice for the Exercise By: Police Officers of Statutory Powers of Stop and Search; Police Officers and Police Staff of Requirements to Record Public Encounters

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code A: Revised Code of Practice for the Exercise by: Police Officers of Statutory Powers of Stop and Search: Police Officeers and Police Staff of Requirements to Record Public Encounters

Code A: Revised Code of Practice for the Exercise By: Police Officers of Statutory Powers of Stop and Search; Police Officers and Police Staff of Requirements to Record Public Encounters

By: Great Britain: Home Office

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) and its Codes of Practice are a vital part of the legislative framework that lays out police powers for combating crime. Code A explains the exercise by police officers of statutory powers to search a person or a vehicle without first making an arrest. It also outlines the need for a police officer to make a record of a stop or encounter. This Code of Practice must be readily available at all police stations for consultation by police officers, police staff, detained persons and members of the public. This Code applies to any search by a police officer and the recording of public encounters taking place after 00.00 on 27 October 2013

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The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism

By: Home Office

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The United Kingdom's Strategy for Countering International Terrorism

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This document sets out the United Kingdom's strategy, known as CONTEST, for countering the threat from international terrorism. The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the United Kingdom (UK) and its interests overseas from international terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence. This is a revised and more detailed version of the strategy contained in "The national security strategy of the United Kingdom" (Cm. 7291, 2008, ISBN 9780101729123). The first part sets the context with a brief history of the changing threat to the United Kingdom and to UK interests overseas from international terrorism, examines the present threat, the factors which are shaping it and the assumptions about how it may develop. The second part sets out the principles which will govern the strategy, including a commitment to human rights and the rule of law, recognition of the need to address the causes as well as the symptoms of terrorism and the need to co-operate with other countries. The four main streams of the CONTEST strategy are: (1) pursue - to stop terrorist attacks; (2) prevent - to stop people becoming terrorists or supporting violent extremism; (3) protect - to strengthen our protection against terrorist attack; (4) prepare - where an attack cannot be stopped, to mitigate its impact. The third part of the document outlines who will deliver the strategy and how its impact will be measured. The document concludes with a section explaining the importance of communications as a part of the counter-terrorism strategy.

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code H: Revised Code of Practice in Connection with: The Detention, Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Persons in Police Detention Under Section 41 of, and Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000: The Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Detained Persons in Respect of Whom an Authorisation to Question After Charge has Been Given Under Section 22 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

Code H: Revised Code of Practice in Connection With, the Detention, Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Persons in Police Detention Under Section 41 Of, and Schedule 8 To, the Terrorism Act 2000, the Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Detained Persons in Respect of Whom an Authorisation to Question After Charge Has Been Given Under Section 22 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

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Home Office: Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 Code H: Revised Code of Practice in Connection with: The Detention, Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Persons in Police Detention Under Section 41 of, and Schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000: The Treatment and Questioning by Police Officers of Detained Persons in Respect of Whom an Authorisation to Question After Charge has Been Given Under Section 22 of the Counter-Terrorism Act 2008

By: Great Britain: Home Office

The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) and its Codes of Practice are a vital part of the legislative framework that lays out police powers for combating crime. This revised version of PACE Code H sets out the requirements for the detention, treatment and questioning of suspects related to terrorism in police custody by police officers. This Code applies to people in police detention after 00.00 on 27 October 2013, notwithstanding that their period of detention may have commenced before that time

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Financial management in the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Financial management in the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

The Home Office has made good progress in improving its financial management since 2009 when the National Audit Office last evaluated its financial capability. However, while financial control is good, the Home Office could do more to integrate its financial and operational planning and thereby understand better the link between resources and performance. In addition, many of the strengths which the Department demonstrates in its core business are much less apparent in its 'change programmes'. The Department is starting to benefit from its new governance structures but there still challenges. The Department has clear plans to reduce costs in its core activities but business areas have not fully considered efficiency and effectiveness when evaluating where cuts should be made. The Department will need to achieve further savings of £1.1 billion a year by 2014-15 but a third of this sum remains uncertain. Reductions in funding from the Home Office mean that police forces must make savings worth around £1.5 billion by 2014-15 through efficiency improvements; but, in 2011, around two-thirds of forces had shortfalls in their cost reduction plans, amounting to £500 million in total. The Department will shortly be in a position to confirm how far this savings gap has been covered in the plans. There are risks to the successful delivery of the Department's change programmes, specifically in respect of the development of the National Crime Agency (NCA) and Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the phasing out of the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA)

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Home Office: Draft Modern Slavery Bill - Cm. 8770

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Home Office: Draft Modern Slavery Bill - Cm. 8770

By: Great Britain: Home Office

Modern slavery encompasses human trafficking, slavery, forced labour and domestic servitude. In 2012, the International Labour Organization estimated that there were 21 million victims of forced labour across the world. Our current understanding of the exact scale of the problem is limited. The only systematic means we have for collecting data is the National Referral Mechanism (NRM) to which potential victims of modern slavery are referred. 1,186 potential victims of modern slavery were referred in 2012 - a 25 per cent increase on the previous year. The Government will go forward in three ways: through legislation in this Parliament; through non-legislative action across the country; and through upstream work in source countries. The draft Modern Slavery Bill will: consolidate and simplify existing slavery and trafficking offences; increase the maximum sentence available to life imprisonment; introduce civil orders to restrict the activity of those who pose a risk and those convicted of slavery and trafficking offences; create a new Anti-Slavery Commissioner role to galvanise law enforcement's efforts to tackle modern slavery; and establish a legal duty to report potential victims of trafficking to the National Crime Agency (NCA). The Rt Hon Frank Field MP was invited to run a number of evidence sessions to gather information and views from a wide range of experts. His recommendations will be fully considered as the Bill and action plan are developed. The action plan will also set out how we will improve law enforcement action in source countries, and take steps towards scaling up reintegration programmes

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The Home Office's response to terrorist attacks

sixth report of session 2009-10, [Vol. 1]: Report, together with formal minutes

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

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The Home Office's response to terrorist attacks

sixth report of session 2009-10, [Vol. 1]: Report, together with formal minutes

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

Calls for the merger of many different counter-terrorism committees into a single, formalised National Security Committee, chaired by the Home Secretary or Prime Minister and assisted by a National Security Advisor.

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The Home Office departmental report 2007

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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The Home Office departmental report 2007

By: Great Britain: Home Office

Dated May 2007

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Securing Britain in an age of uncertainty

the strategic defence and security review

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

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Securing Britain in an age of uncertainty

the strategic defence and security review

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

This strategic defence and security review provides detailed information on how the Government plans to deliver the strategy outlined in "A strong Britain in an age of uncertainty: the national security strategy" (Cm. 7953, ISBN 9780101795326). Chapters cover: national security tasks and planning guidelines; defence; the deterrent; wider security; alliances and partnerships; structural reform and implementation. An adaptable posture is proposed, enabling a flexible response to highest priority risks, maintaining a deterrent, enhancing partnerships, constant review of longer-term risks and uncertainties. Eight cross-cutting national security tasks are identified. An outline force structure, Future Force 2020, is planned for defence. The Army will receive new armoured vehicles and strategic lift aircraft, better communications equipment, and more battlefield helicopters. The role and structure of the Territorial Army and other reserve forces will be reviewed. The Royal Navy will get new vessels, including two new aircraft carriers, though only one carrier will be designed for full operability with allies. The Ark Royal carrier will be decommissioned and Harrier jets phased out as new aircraft are introduced. Royal Air Force capabilities will be based around a fleet of Typhoon and Joint Strike Fighter aircraft with supporting unmanned vehicles and an enhanced air transport fleet. The nuclear deterrent will be maintained, but the number of warheads on each submarine and in reserve will be reduced. Wider security covers terrorism, instability and conflict overseas, cyber security, civil emergencies, energy security, organised crime, border security, counter proliferation and arms control. Alliances and partnerships remain a fundamental part of the approach, including bilateral co-operation and multilateral engagement through NATO and the UN. Structural reform to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the strategy is described. Personnel reduction is to be: 5,000 Navy, 7,000 Army, 5,000 RAF, and 25,000 civilians.

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From the Neighbourhood to the National

Policing Our Communities Together

By: Great Britain. Home Office

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From the Neighbourhood to the National

Policing Our Communities Together

By: Great Britain. Home Office

This green paper focuses on seven key issues. Chapter 1 is about the local dimension, and builds on the success of neighbourhood policing by giving the public more chance to drive local priorities and more information on what is being achieved and the service standards to the public. Chapter 2 describes plans to reduce bureaucracy and red-tape and increase use of technology. The next chapter deals with the officers and staff of the service. Chapter 4 explains improvements to the development and deployment of the police workforce. Government support for these changes is set out in Chapter 5, and Chapter 6 covers the progress made in working across police forces to improve "protective services" and the further steps the Government will take to encourage collaboration and co-operation between forces. It also sets out the approach to counter terrorism policing and policing the UK's borders. Chapter 7 outlines plans for a radical reshaping of national performance management arrangement.

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Constitutional processes following a general election

fifth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee

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fifth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

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Constitutional processes following a general Election : Fifth report of session 2009-10, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written Evidence

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House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts: Cabinet Office: Iimproving Government Procurement And The Impact Government's ICT Savings Initiatives - HC 137

Improving Government Procurement and the Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives, Sixth Report of Session 2013-14, Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

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House of Commons - Committee of Public Accounts: Cabinet Office: Iimproving Government Procurement And The Impact Government's ICT Savings Initiatives - HC 137

Improving Government Procurement and the Impact of Government's ICT Savings Initiatives, Sixth Report of Session 2013-14, Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

Central government spent a total of around £45 billion on buying goods and services in 2011-12, including an estimated £6.9 billion on ICT. Since 2010, the government has introduced a range of procurement reforms designed to save money. These include centralising the procurement of goods and services bought by all departments, such as energy and travel. All ICT spending over £5million must be approved by the Cabinet Office, and a programme to develop ICT infrastructure which can be shared across government organisations has been developed. These reforms are beginning to have an impact: the proportion of spending that goes through central contracts has increased steadily; the ICT initiatives have resulted in some savings; and there are signs that departments are starting to think more intelligently about why and how they use ICT. But the accountability arrangements for centralised procurement remain a barrier; the centre manages the contracts yet departments remain liable for their own spending decisions so they are reluctant to cede authority to the centre. Management information on spending and savings is incomplete, so departments do not always trust the figures on savings claimed. These gaps in accountability and data make it harder to make the case for procurement across central government and in the wider public sector to be centralised. The commitment to localism seems to be at odds with buying through central contracts, and government's desire to give more government business to small firms does not appear to have changed the way large procurements are managed.

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Skills for Government

ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee

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Skills for Government

ninth report of session 2006-07, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee

Incorporating HCP 1647-i, session 2005-06, previously unpublished

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Policing Process of Home Office Leaks Inquiry

Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee

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Policing Process of Home Office Leaks Inquiry

Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Home Affairs Committee

On 27 November 2008 a senior Member of Parliament and Opposition spokesman, Mr Damian Green, was arrested by police and his home and offices searched in connection with an investigation into the leak and publication of a number of government documents. Press reports indicated that Mr Green was believed to have received government documents from a Home Office official, Mr Christopher Galley, who had been arrested eight days earlier and who had subsequently admitted to having leaked some documents. This series of events, and particularly the fact that Mr Green's office at the House of Commons was searched without the police producing a warrant, caused considerable disquiet. The Committee's remit was to review the internal processes of the House administration for granting permission for such action (as police searches of Members' offices and seizure of their papers), and to make recommendations for the future. As a starting point, the reasons why the police were requested to investigate the suspected disclosure of government information and how many disclosures, the type of information that had been leaked, in particular, whether any of it was relevant to national security or was otherwise classified, and the efforts that had been made to discover the source of the leaks before the police were called in. Also the Committee wished to disentangle the roles of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office in the investigation process. The Committee concluded the Home Office appears to have followed best practice for investigating leaks, as set out in the Cabinet Office's Memorandum to the Committees' sister Committee. But there are concerns that growing frustration in both the Home Office and the Cabinet Office may have led officials to give an exaggerated impression of the damage done by the leaks that could reasonably be presumed to have emanated from the Home Office. The Committee thought it was unhelpful to give the police the impression that the Home Office leaker(s) had already caused considerable damage to national security. The Cabinet Office's guidance to departments says that it is appropriate to involve the police in leak investigations when they involve "a serious and damaging impact on the functioning of a Department and suspicion of leaking sensitive information". However, it is easy to imagine circumstances in which a leak of sensitive information could lead to a damaging impact on the functioning of a Department without falling within the categories laid down in statute. The Cabinet Office's guidance therefore seems to leave open the possibility of involving the police in an investigation without any suspicion let alone evidence that a criminal offence under the Act has taken place. The Committee recommend that the Cabinet Office revise its guidance to preclude this possibility.

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The Defence Contribution to UK National Security and Resilience

Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee

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The Defence Contribution to UK National Security and Resilience

Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Defence Committee

In March 2008 the Government published "The National Security Strategy of the United Kingdom: Security in an interdependent world" (NSS) (Cm. 7291, 2008, ISBN 9780101729123). Part dealt with the contribution of the armed forces to the overarching security policy of the UK, and the Defence Committee set out to examine "how the MoD and the Armed Forces interact with other departments and agencies to ensure the safety and security of the UK". The report looks at the developing area of Parliamentary scrutiny of national security, welcomes the proposed creation of a Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, but does question which minister will give evidence to that Committee. The vital role of the ministry of Defence is outlined, and the contribution must be appropriately understood, directed and resourced. The Committee recommends that the Government investigate how the Territorial Army could be used in civil emergencies, rather than always resorting to regular troops. It is essential that all activity relating to national security is appropriately funded from an indicative national security budget. The NSS should also make a clearer connection between the strategy and industry, and the Committee welcomes the Government's engagement with the UK Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers' Community. Current issues examined include: the London 2012 Olympic Games; maritime security - the Committee comments on only six Royal Navy ships being dedicated to this, and the level of action taken to address identified threats to aspects of critical infrastructure such as ports; the impact of current operations and the extent to which UK forces are stretched or overstretched.

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Implementing transparency

cross-government review

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Implementing transparency

cross-government review

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

This National Audit Office report highlights progress across government in fulfilling most of its initial commitments to promote the transparency of public information. However, government needs a better understanding of costs, benefits and use to assess whether transparency is meeting its objectives of increasing accountability, supporting service improvement and stimulating economic growth. The Government has significantly increased the amount and type of public sector information released. Twenty-three out of 25 commitments by central government, due by December 2011, had been met by that month. However, the assessment of value for money is underdeveloped. While the Cabinet Office has identified six types of potential benefits from open data, it is not yet using this framework to evaluate the success and value for money of its various transparency initiatives. The new Open Data Institute will have a role to improve evidence on economic and public service benefits of open data. Levels of public interest in the different types of information released vary. More than four-fifths of visitors to the Government website data.gov.uk leave the site immediately without accessing any further link. In some sectors, data that would better inform accountability or choice is either not held or not yet made available. The Government estimates that public data already contributes £16 billion annually to the UK economy. Despite announced new transparency commitments to stimulate additional economic growth, the ability to maximise economic growth from traded data is constrained by current arrangements to charge for data, and limited understanding of potential benefits.

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Control of immigration

statistics United Kingdom 2006

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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Control of immigration

statistics United Kingdom 2006

By: Great Britain: Home Office

The statistics presented, in brief, show that: International arrivals outside the Common Travel Area increased 3%; work permit holders admitted to UK increased 6%; Non-EEA student to the UK increased 9%; refusals of entry at port increased 6%; asylum applications decreased 8% including and excluding dependents with the highest number of applicants from Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iran, China and Somalia; decisions on asylum applications decreased 24%; 26% of applications resulted in grants of asylum, humanitarian protection/discretionary leave or in allowed appeals. There was a 2% increase in after entry decisions; grants of settlement fell by 25% and total number of persons removed from the UK increased 10%

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Work of the Permanent Secretary (April - December 2011)

second report of session 2012-13, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

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Work of the Permanent Secretary (April - December 2011)

second report of session 2012-13, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

The Committee identifies significant savings made through improved procurement practices, which rose to £75 million in the first three quarters of the 2011-12 financial year. It welcomes the fact that the Home Office is acting on its earlier recommendation to extend the use of the compulsory national framework for police procurement, however expresses concern about the progress of the e-borders programme and the lack of clarity over plans to introduce privatisation into policing. The Committee found that the costly joint procurement exercise being undertaken by Surrey and West Midlands Police lacked clarity. The Committee were not convinced that the Forces fully understood, or were fully able to articulate the process they were undertaking. With the overall costs of exploring this process set at £5 million, the Committee called on the Home Office to take responsibility for ensuring the public and stakeholders were aware of the process and to postpone the exercise till after the election of the Police and Crime Commissioners. Also, despite the letting of new contracts to Serco and IBM in preparation for the London Olympics, the Committee remains concerned about the progress of the e-Borders programme. The Committee also found that an unacceptable level of claims under the Riot Damages Act were still outstanding and recommends that the Home Office work with police authorities to publish a timetable for the payment of all outstanding claims. All those who made a legitimate claim should receive their payments by the first anniversary at the latest

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National Audit Office:The Border Force: Securing the Bordr: Home Office - HC 540

Securing the Border, Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Securing the Border, Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

Since the UK Border Force was separated from the UK Border Agency, it has met some important objectives such as reducing queuing times. To provide value for money, however, it needs to perform effectively and in a sustained way across the full range of its activities. Border Force officers reported that staff shortages and the requirement to prioritize full passenger checks while managing queue times often prevented their performing other important duties, such as checking freight. In addition, during the first months of 2012-13, the Border Force's performance in some of its activities, such as seizures of cigarettes and counterfeit goods, entry refusals and detecting forgeries, was below target. The Home Office's internal auditors confirmed that the 2012 Olympics and wider resourcing issues had an effect on the Border Force's ability consistently to resource customs controls. The Border Force's workforce lacks organizational identity. The Border Force consists largely of officers who previously worked in separate customs and immigrations agencies, who typically still identify themselves as 'ex-customs' or 'ex-immigration'. To meet the demands the Border Force is recruiting more staff. Despite this, there are continuing staff shortages at the border. The Border Force has not established whether it has the resources it needs to deliver all its objectives. It needs to deploy staff flexibly to respond to its competing demands, but is prevented from doing this as efficiently as possible because almost a fifth of its workforce is employed under terms and conditions that restrict working hours to fixed periods during the week

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Memorandum to the Public Administration Select Committee

post-legislative scrutiny of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

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Memorandum to the Public Administration Select Committee

post-legislative scrutiny of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007

By: Great Britain: Cabinet Office

The Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007 and introduced substantial reforms to the official statistical system across the whole of the UK and setting it in statute for the first time. The major stakeholders were consulted on the effectiveness of the Act and overall they felt the Act is meeting its original aims and objectives. There were some areas where it was felt further reforms could strengthen the Act's aims. These include: considering the case for widening the data sharing powers in the Act; managing and where possible minimising the costs incurred by the producers of official statistics in complying with the Code of practice; whether more needs to be done to distinguish official statistics from those that are not; whether more needs to be done to strengthen the internal separation between the statistics producer and regulator roles of the UK Statistics Authority; and how to further raise the profile of the Authority.

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HC 222 - Sustainability in the Home Office

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

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HC 222 - Sustainability in the Home Office

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Environmental Audit Committee

This report assesses the Government's progress in embedding sustainable development in the Home Office. It follows on from a similar inquiry last year on Sustainability in BIS. The Home Office appears to be on track to meet the Government's sustainable operations targets for departments, in part by reducing the size of its estate, but also by effective use of payment-by-result contracts. It has achieved the reductions set for water, paper and waste. It is making good progress on reducing carbon emissions, despite emissions from travel increasing significantly. The Home Office uses a 'CAESER' tool to highlight sustainability to suppliers and encourage them to improve their performance. The Government should widely adopt this tool for all major suppliers. The Home Office needs to ensure that all contracts include specific sustainability criteria and that performance on these is actively monitored and managed. It should address energy efficiency in its contracts for asylum accommodation. Crime prevention is an important part of sustainable policing, as it reduces future social and environmental costs. Whilst the Home Office is taking steps to understand the carbon impact of crime, the Government's policies to remove housing design standards risk less sustainable outcomes. It should ensure that the full environmental and social costs of such decisions are analyzed in policy appraisal. The Government has led international efforts to tackle wildlife crime. It needs to commit long-term funding for these efforts, and further improve the quality of data on recorded and reported offences.

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The economic and fiscal impact of immigration

a cross-departmental submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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The economic and fiscal impact of immigration

a cross-departmental submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs

By: Great Britain: Home Office

This report by the Home Office, HM Treasury, the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics has been produced as a cross-departmental submission to the inquiry being conducted by the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs into the economic impact of immigration in the UK. The report includes chapters on public finance and net fiscal impacts; macroeconomic impacts; labour market, productivity and skills impacts; sectors and occupations; demographic impacts; the economic impact of illegal immigration; improving immigration data; and government policy on immigration. The Office for National Statistics has also produced a separate statistical submission as a background paper to this report.

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The role of the FCO in UK government

seventh report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee

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The role of the FCO in UK government

seventh report of session 2010-12, Vol. 1: Report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee

The Foreign Affairs Committee believes the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) will not be back at the centre of Government and able to lead UK foreign policy, in line with the Foreign Secretary's ambitions, unless it can provide deep foreign policy expertise and judgement to underpin and implement Government decision-making. The FCO must have the resources and skills required to fulfil this role, especially specialist geographical expertise and knowledge of foreign languages. The FCO has a vital role to play for the Government, namely the timely provision of world-class foreign policy information, analysis, judgement and execution. Finances, people and buildings must be well-managed, but managerial requirements must not divert time and focus disproportionately from the FCO's core foreign policy functions. Given the resource constraints facing the FCO, however, there is doubt whether the department can achieve the Government's ambitions for enhanced commercial work while maintaining its core foreign policy functions at the required standard. The committee regards the FCO's network of overseas posts as integral to the department's ability to discharge its functions, and recommends that the FCO should seek to maintain a global UK presence. The committee also called "confusing" the fact that under the current Government the FCO has three sets of priorities: the Foreign Secretary's, the Cabinet Office's Business Plan for the department, and the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review.

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Meeting the aspirations of the British people

2007 pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review

By: Great Britain. Treasury,Great Britain: H.M. Treasury

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Meeting the aspirations of the British people

2007 pre-budget report and comprehensive spending review

By: Great Britain. Treasury,Great Britain: H.M. Treasury

The Government's objective is to build a strong economy and a fair society, in which there is opportunity and security for all. The 2007 Pre-Budget Report and Comprehensive Spending Review, 'Meeting the aspirations of the British People' (Cm 7227), presents updated assessments and forecasts of the economy and public finances, describes reforms that the Government is making and sets out the Government's priorities and spending plans for the years 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11, including: maintaining macroeconomic stability; investing in the future with total public spending rising from £589bn in 2007-08 to £678bn in 2010-11 including an additional £2bn for capital investment in public services; continuing the sustained investment in the NHS, with resources rising from £90bn in 2007-08 to £110bn by 2010-11 and with value for money savings of at least £8.2bn contributing to the funding of the conclusions of the Darzi Review 'Our NHS, our future'; further sustained increases in resources for education, science, transport, housing, child poverty, security and international poverty reduction and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games; simplifying the tax system to make it fairer, simpler and more efficient; modernising the tax system through major reforms to inheritance tax and capital gains tax; steps to protect the environment, including reforms of the tax regime for aviation and a new Environmental Taxation Fund to support the demonstration and deployment of new energy and efficiency technologies. For related publications, see 9780102944556 (2007 Budget Statement), 9780101698429 (2006 Pre-Budget), and for the Darzi Review see (http://www.ournhs.nhs.uk/files/283411_OurNHS_v3acc.pdf)

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Digital Britain One

shared information and services for government online, cross government

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Digital Britain One

shared information and services for government online, cross government

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

The Government has not in general measured the benefits delivered by its two central internet services Directgov and Business.gov, and the infrastructure service Government Gateway, which together cost some £90 million a year, according to a report today by the National Audit Office. Government departments and other public bodies use Directgov, Business.gov and Gateway to provide information to the public and to support a range of government online services. It is crucial that the Government Digital Service (GDS), established in March 2011 to implement a new strategy to deliver all government information services digitally, builds in the right mechanisms to achieve value for money as it plans the future of digital shared infrastructure and services. Today's report does conclude, however, that it is likely that Directgov, Business.gov and Gateway have delivered some cost savings to the public bodies which use them, through the reuse of common infrastructure. The public and businesses using the services have also benefited. Directgov (providing government information for the public) and Business.gov (a family of four services, one for each of the four nations of the UK, providing information for businesses) have enabled citizens and businesses to access information in a more organised way. Even though financial benefits are not clear, performance has been managed and most targets have been met. Since 2006, 1,526 government websites have been closed. Determining how successful the Government has been in closing websites has proved difficult, however, because the baseline numbers were based on an estimate and targets have changed over time. At the start, the Government was unsure how many sites it had and not all bodies have complied with the policy to close sites.

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Project CONTEST

the Government's counter terrorism strategy, ninth report of session 2008-09, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

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Project CONTEST

the Government's counter terrorism strategy, ninth report of session 2008-09, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

This is the ninth report of the Home Affairs Committee (HCP 212, session 2008-09, ISBN 9780215539731) and examines Project CONTEST, the Government's counter-terrorism strategy. Project CONTEST was first developed in 2003 as a response to the emerging terrorist threat in the aftermath of the attacks in New York and Washington DC, in September 2001. A revised version of CONTEST was published on 24th March 2009. CONTEST has four strands: Pursue, Prevent, Protect and Prepare, and responsibility for CONTEST lies with the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), part of the Home Office. The Committee commends the dedication and professionalism of the staff and approves of the more open nature in explaining CONTEST to the public. The Committee believes though that the Government could go further by outlining more of the sucesses of the counter-terrorism operations. However, the Transport for London network remains vulnerable to terrorism, as well as the 2012 Olympics, with the Committee seeing a safe and secure Games as a litmus test for the Government's counter-terrorism strategy.

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Reducing the risk of violent crime

the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Reducing the risk of violent crime

the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

The Home Office has been effective at raising the profile of domestic violence and alcohol related crime and encouraging local action to address these issues. Such action is likely to have made some contribution to the overall fall in levels of violent crime. It has not yet managed to address successfully barriers which are reducing the effectiveness of crime prevention activities at a local level and which have been raised in previous reports by the National Audit Office and the Committee of Public Accounts. However, the Home Office has made some progress in addressing these barriers. The persistence of these barriers means that good practice has not been extended from small initiatives, and Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships have not been able to take a long-term, strategic approach to tackling violent crime. There are a number of NAO recommendations.

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Setting priorities for publicly funded research

3rd report of session 2009-10, Vol. 2: Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee

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Setting priorities for publicly funded research

3rd report of session 2009-10, Vol. 2: Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Science and Technology Committee

In its report into how priorities are set for publicly funded research, the Science and Technology Committee calls on the Government to make a clear and unambiguous statement setting out their research funding commitments and the periods of time over which those commitments apply.

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010847240X

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Helping Government Learn

By: Great Britain. National Audit Office

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Helping Government Learn

By: Great Britain. National Audit Office

Much learning in government occurs after large projects, initiatives or crises. However, important learning should also take place routinely on a day-to-day basis, as teams and individuals carry out their work, or as a result of research and evaluations.

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Leaks and whistleblowing in Whitehall

tenth report of session 2008-09, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee

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Leaks and whistleblowing in Whitehall

tenth report of session 2008-09, report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee

The Committee calls for better and more accessible procedures for civil servants to raise concerns about the conduct of government. A route should to be established whereby evidence that a minister had misled Parliament or the public could be reported to Parliament following a complaint by a civil servant. Leaks damage trust within government and trust in government. The Committee concludes that leak investigations are often hamstrung by the fact that many leaks are politically motivated, including leaks from ministers and special advisers. The most effective way to prevent leaks by civil servants is to have accessible, effective and visible ways for individuals to raise concerns about the conduct of government, either internally or through an external oversight body, the Civil Service Commissioners. The report makes the following key recommendations: the Civil Service Commissioners should have the power to report to Parliament evidence indicating that the government was misleading Parliament or the public or the fact that the Civil Service has refused to act on a justified complaint; the Commissioners should also conduct independent investigation of breaches of confidentiality by special advisers; the leaking of information should only be a criminal matter where there is a breach of the Official Secrets Act or there is evidence of serious criminal misconduct; the Cabinet Office, Heads of Departments and the Civil Service Commissioners should do more to ensure that potential whistleblowers know how to raise concerns and have the confidence to come forward with them.

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0215540816

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The work of the UK Border Agency (April-July 2011)

fifteenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

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The work of the UK Border Agency (April-July 2011)

fifteenth report of session 2010-12, Vol. 2: Oral and written evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee

The November '10-March' 2011 report published as HC 929, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215559968 ). Earlier reports to that published as HC 406, session 2009-10 (ISBN 9780215553775) & its Government response, HC 457, session 2010-11 (ISBN 9780215554710). Those reports were follow-up to "The work of the UK Border Agency" (2nd report, session 2009-10, 105-I, ISBN 9780215542465) and "The E-Borders programme" (3rd report, session 2009-10, HC 170, ISBN 9780215542854). HC 370, session 2009-10 (ISBN 97802155544001) was the Government response to HC 105-I, session 2009-10. HC 587-I, session 2010-11 (ISBN 978021555861) and its Government response, HC 1027, session 2010-12 (ISBN 9780215559661) have also published since.

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0215038568

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The United Kingdom's strategy for countering international terrorism annual report March 2010

By: Great Britain: Home Office

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The United Kingdom's strategy for countering international terrorism annual report March 2010

By: Great Britain: Home Office

This document presents the first annual report on the work done in 2009-10 by Government departments and agencies under the United Kingdom's strategy, known as CONTEST, for countering the threat from international terrorism. The aim of CONTEST is to reduce the risk to the United Kingdom and its interests overseas from international terrorism, so that people can go about their lives freely and with confidence. The report sets out the strategic context and details the response under the pursue, prevent, protect and prepare headings, and with a separate section on Afghanistan and Pakistan. Cross-cutting issues covered include: chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons and explosives; Olympic safety and security programme; communications.

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0101783329

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Managing Early Departures in Central Government

Eighth Report of Session 2012-13, Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

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Managing Early Departures in Central Government

Eighth Report of Session 2012-13, Report, Together with Formal Minutes, Oral and Written Evidence

By: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Committee of Public Accounts

The 2010 Spending Review required most departments to make cost savings, which would require staff reductions. Departments have reduced their number of employees to around 35,000 in 2011, nearly 18,000 of which have been achieved through early departures. If these staff reductions achieved and planned, are to be sustainable then they will need to be supported by a redesign of the way business is carried out. The Committee is not convinced that all departments are putting in place the fundamental redesign in working practices that is needed to operate permanently with a lower number of staff and this with the pace and scale of reductions means that there is a real risk to departments' ability to deliver services. And there concern about the lack of clear information to track the extent to which this risk is materialising. Without this information it is difficult to know to what extent services are being adversely affected by staff departures. The efficiency of early departures has been hampered by poor management information. Departments are considering individuals' performance when making decisions on staff departures. But the quality of data in performance appraisals has not been detailed enough to support this decision-making. The Committee considers that improving the quality and consistency of performance appraisal arrangements would bring both efficiency savings and better decision-making about the management of the workforce. The Treasury is responsible for signing off any individual exit payments that exceed the terms of the compensation scheme. It was discovered that the Treasury does not keep proper records of such requests and the Committee expects to see this rectified. The Cabinet Office estimates that around half of the required headcount reduction is yet to come and this is likely to be more challenging as the more achievable cuts have already been made and future cuts are likely to involve more compulsory redundancies.

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Tackling anti-social behaviour

the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

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Tackling anti-social behaviour

the Home Office

By: Great Britain: National Audit Office

Anti-social behaviour encompasses a broad range of behaviours including nuisance behaviour, intimidation and vandalism. Seventeen per cent of the population perceive high levels of anti-social behaviour in their area, with the young and the less well off being disproportionately affected, at a cost to government agencies of responding to reports of anti-social behaviour in England and Wales of around £3.4 billion per year. This report examines the work of the Home Office's Anti-Social Behaviour Unit set up in 2003 and measures introduced by the Home Office since 1997 to tackle anti-social behaviour, focusing on the impact of three of the most commonly used interventions: warning letters, Acceptable Behaviour Contracts and Anti-Social Behaviour Orders. Using a sample of 893 cases, the report found that the majority of people who received one of these interventions did not re-engage in anti-social behaviour, but there were a number of perpetrators for whom interventions had limited impact, with about 20 per cent of the sample having received 55 per cent of the interventions issued. Recommendations include that the Home Office should undertake formal evaluation of the success of different interventions and the impact of combining these with support services at the local level. International research suggests that preventive programmes, such as education, counselling and training can be a cost effective way of addressing anti-social behaviour.

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