Home Secretary
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, commonly known as the Home Secretary, is the minister in charge of the United Kingdom Home Office and is one of the Great Offices of State. The Home Secretary is responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales, and for immigration and citizenship for the whole of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland). In certain other countries, such as Australia and India, the term Home Secretary refers to the Permanent Secretary, or the senior civil servant, at the Home Ministry of that country.
The remit of the UK ministry includes policing, national security, immigration, and matters of citizenship.
The current Home Secretary is Jacqui Smith.
Responsibilities
The Home Secretary is currently responsible for:
 Police
Crime
Terrorism
Citizenship
Identity cards and passports
Constitutional & Legal Affairs
The Home Secretary has no responsibility for the Courts of England and Wales. Unlike many other governments issues usually dealt with by a Department of Justice, the British government has three separate departments: The Home Office (as specified above), the Attorney General's Office and the Ministry of Justice, headed by the Secretary of State for Justice, for legal, judicial and civil rights issues.
Development of other government departments
Because the Home Office was initially the primary government department with responsibility for domestic affairs, all subsequent domestic departments have effectively been created by taking responsibilities from the Home Office. Until 2001 this left a variety of miscellaneous tasks that sat apart from the law and order functions of the department, such as British Summer Time or wild birds in Scotland.[Roy Jenkins Churchill (Macmillan, 2001), page 170 ISBN 0-333-78290-9] However, on the appointment of David Blunkett as Home Secretary, these functions - and others such as responsibility for the Fire Brigade - have been reallocated to other departments to give the position a focus solely on law and order.
Related pages
Related postings in other countries:
General terms
Attorney General
Interior minister
European positions
Attorney General for England and Wales
Ireland
*Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
*Attorney General of Ireland
North and Central American positions
Minister of Justice (Canada)
Attorney General of Ontario and Solicitor General of Ontario
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness - acts as Solicitor General of Canada
United States Attorney General
United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Attorney General (Mexico)
Asian positions
Minister for Home Affairs (India)
Indian Attorney General
Secretary for Justice (Hong Kong) - formerly Attorney General
Secretary for Security (Hong Kong)
Australasian positions
Attorney-General of Australia
Attorney-General (New Zealand)
See also
Cabinet (government)
Departments of the United Kingdom Government
Ministry of Justice
List of British ministries
Great Offices of State
Shadow Home Secretary
External links
Home Office website
Electronic list of ministerial responsibilities
Her Majesty's Government (Cabinet Ministers)
Full list of Her Majesty's Government (which includes various junior Ministers too).
Ministry of Justice
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