Justice & Home Affairs

Expanded senior leadership team will help next prison and probation service chief deal with secure-estate crisis.

The Home Affairs Committee urged the government to pay greater attention to its "duty of care" as it prepares to hand out £4bn worth of new contracts.

Department looks to put 50-strong team on standby for Brexit-related crises

Home Office immigration enforcement DG Tyson Hepple confirmed the department had been talking to non-governmental organisations about how to add independent oversight

The committee also warned that uncertainty about future border arrangements "will make it extremely challenging for the Home Office" to prepare for the future

Union voices anger that Disclosure and Barring Service project will not be brought back in-house

HMRC, Defra and cross-departmental borders group urged to update MPs on contingency-planning work

The Home Office showed "little inclination to look seriously" at its resourcing for translating documents, David Bolt said.

In rare speech, top spy Alex Younger claimed that ‘the digital era has profoundly changed our operating environment’

Union says it will fight “tooth and nail” to prevent any publicly-run prisons from transferring into the hands of private operators

Loughborough centre will join new Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham bases from next year

Alan Singleton and Simon Bruno were fatally shot while undertaking a routine inspection on 22 November 1993

'Low achievement by prisons against inspectorate recommendations has been a feature at some of the prisons that have caused most concern', a spokesperson said.

Brokenshire also lauds 2.2% hike in numbers of new homes

Scottish Government perm sec makes statement following employment tribunal case

Department for Transport, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions teams among those honoured at ceremony

Institute for Government says department has to put officials’ accountability at the heart of new review

Public Accounts Committee chides department for not going ahead with police funding formula review despite agreeing re-examination was needed

Job advert seeks "authoritative" figure to take over after a rocky year for the prisons service

Department “cheated police officers out of the pay increase they should receive” says Police Federation chairman 

Richard Heaton announces Michael Spurr departure at “the right time to ask a new chief executive to take on this important role”

The department’s chief digital and information officer Tom Read sees addressing a historic ‘lack of trust’ between the two disciplines as a key part of his role

FDA union accuses home secretary of 'ducking responsibility' after police pledge

Treasury’s lack of understanding of the overall impact on public finances hinders government response, according to NAO