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A Home Office Immigration Enforcement vehicle in north London. The Home Office (HO), also known (especially in official papers and when referred to in Parliament) as the Home Department, [ 2 ] is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for immigration, security, and law and order.
UK Government Overseas logo. Foreign Office, London. As of 2019, there are around 120 government ministers [12] supported by 560,000 [13] civil servants and other staff working in the 25 ministerial departments [14] and their executive agencies. There are also an additional 20 non-ministerial departments with a range of further responsibilities.
t. e. The secretary of state for the Home Department, more commonly known as the Home Secretary, is a senior minister of the Crown in the Government of the United Kingdom and the head of the Home Office. [3] The position is a Great Office of State, making the home secretary one of the most senior and influential ministers in the government.
v. t. e. The Government of the United Kingdom is divided into departments that each have responsibility, according to the government, for putting government policy into practice. [1] There are currently 24 ministerial departments, 20 non-ministerial departments, and 422 agencies and other public bodies, for a total of 465 departments. [2]
Politics of the United Kingdom. The Great Offices of State are senior offices in the UK government. They are the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary [1][2][3] or, alternatively, three of those offices excluding the prime minister. [4][5]
Homeland Security Group (previously named Office for Security and Counter Terrorism) is an executive directorate of the UK government Home Office, created in 2007, [1] responsible for leading the work on counter-terrorism in the UK, working closely with the police and security services. The office reports to the Home Secretary, and to the ...
Organisational chart of the UK political system. The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy which, by legislation and convention, operates as a unitary parliamentary democracy. A hereditary monarch, currently King Charles III, serves as head of state while the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, currently Sir Keir Starmer since 2024 ...
England. Northern Ireland. Scotland. Wales. Other countries. v. t. e. This article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through the duration of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922, and since then dealing with ...