Report
1. We considered it might be useful to provide an
overview of our work in the 2005-10 Parliament, concentrating
on how—if at all—our recommendations have been implemented.
Accordingly, we asked the Home Office to inform us of the progress
in implementing the Committee's recommendations and any other
relevant updates. The Home Office's response is available on our
website as an appendix to this Special Report.[1]
2. Our principal remit, as set out in House of Commons
standing orders, is "to examine the expenditure, administration
and policy of the Home Office and its associated public bodies".
These bodies include "agencies" such as the UK Border
Agency (UKBA) and the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA),
which possess a degree of autonomy but remain the ultimate responsibility
of the Home Office. In carrying out our remit we aim to strike
a balance between undertaking inquiries into major policy issues,
examining the Department's discharge of its duties across the
range of its activities—including legislation and legislative
proposals—and responding rapidly to important developments
relating to the work of the Home Office and that of its associated
public bodies.
3. Since 9 May 2007, issues relating to the courts,
probation, prisons and prevention of re-offending in England and
Wales are no longer within the remit of the Home Office but fall
to the Ministry of Justice. We have therefore excluded from our
update all reports prior to that date dealing with these issues.
We have also excluded reports where insufficient time has passed
since publication to enable any meaningful assessment of progress
to be made.
4. We list below the reports that we have published
from the start of the 2005-10 Parliament up to the date on which
we make this Special Report, 16 March 2010. The reports are listed
together with the reference for the initial Government Response
to the report, where applicable. Those reports included in the
Appendix to this Report are printed in bold type; those excluded
are listed with a brief note explaining why they were excluded.
Session 2005-06
First Report, Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill
(First Joint Report with the Work and Pensions Committee)
(HC 540), published 20 December 2005. Government Response published
as Cm 6755. Not included in Appendix: Legislation introduced.
Second Report, Draft Sentencing Guidelines: Robbery
(HC 947), published 7 March 2006. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: Now Ministry of Justice responsibility.
Third Report, Draft Sentencing Guidelines—Overarching
Principles: Domestic Violence and Breach of a Protective Order
(HC 1231), published 28 June 2006. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: Now Ministry of Justice responsibility.
Fourth Report, Terrorism Detention Powers
(HC 910), published 3 July 2006. Government Response
published as Cm 6906.
Fifth Report, Immigration Control (HC 775),
published 23 July 2006. Government Response published as Cm 6910.
Not included in Appendix: Legislation introduced.
Sixth Report, Draft Sentencing Guidelines: Sexual
Offences Act 2003 (HC 1582), published 28 July 2006. No Government
Response required. Not included in Appendix: Now Ministry of Justice
responsibility.
Session 2006-07
First Report, Work of the Committee in 2005-06
(HC 296), published 20 February 2007. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: No recommendations made to the Government.
Second Report, Young Black People and the Criminal
Justice System (HC 181), published 15 June 2007. Government
Response published as Cm 7217. Not included in Appendix: Now mostly
Ministry of Justice responsibility.
Third Report, Justice and Home Affairs Issues
at European Union Level (HC 76), published 5 June 2007.
Government Response published as HC 1021.
Fourth Report, Police Funding (HC
553), published 19 July 2007. Government Response published as
HC 1092.
Session 2007-08
First Report, The Government's Counter-Terrorism
Proposals (HC 43), published 13 December 2007. No Government
Response required. Not included in Appendix: Legislation introduced.
Second Report, Bulgarian and Romanian Accession
to the EU: Twelve months on (HC 59), published 17 January
2008. No Government Response required. Not included in Appendix:
No recommendations made to the Government
Third Report, Security Industry Authority
(HC 144), published 17 January 2008. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: Committee's recommendation implemented.
Fourth Report, Work of the Committee in 2007 (HC
226), published 24 January 2008. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: No recommendations made to the Government.
Fifth Report, A Surveillance Society?
(HC 58), published 8 June 2008. Government Response published
as HC 1124.
Sixth Report, Domestic Violence, Forced
Marriage and "Honour"-Based Violence (HC
263), published 13 June 2008. Government Response published as
HC 1165.
Seventh Report, Policing in the 21st
Century (HC 364), published 10 November 2008. Government Response
published as HC 364.
Session 2008-09
First Report, Monitoring of the UK Border
Agency (HC 77), published 12 January 2009. Government
Response published as HC 381.
Second Report, Police and the Media (HC 75),
published 18 January 2009. No Government Response required. Not
included in Appendix: No recommendations made to the Government.
Third Report, The work of the Committee 2007-08
(HC 76), published 26 March 2009. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: No recommendations made to the Government.
Fourth Report, Policing Process of Home
Office Leaks Inquiry (HC 157), published 16 April 2009.
Government Response published as HC 1026.
Fifth Report, Borders, Immigration and Citizenship
Bill [HL] (HC 425), published 29 April 2009. No Government
Response required. Not included in Appendix: Legislation introduced.
Sixth Report, The Trade in Human Beings:
Human Trafficking in the UK (HC 23), published 14 May
2009. Government Response published as Cm 7693.
Seventh Report, Knife Crime (HC 112), published
20 May 2009. Government Response published as Cm 7648 in August
2009. Not included in Appendix: Response too recently published
for follow-up to be useful.
Eighth Report, Policing of the G20 Protests
(HC 418), published 29 June 2009. Government Response published
as HC 201 on 27 January 2010. Not included in Appendix: Response
too recently published for follow-up to be useful.
Ninth Report, Project CONTEST: The Government's
Counter-Terrorism Strategy (HC 212), published 7 July 2009.
Government Response published as Cm 7703 in September 2009. Not
included in Appendix: Response too recently published for follow-up
to be useful.
Tenth Report, The cost of policing football matches
(HC 676), published 19 July 2009. Government Response published
as HC 339 on 1 February 2010. Not included in Appendix: Response
too recently published for follow-up to be useful.
Eleventh Report, Bogus Colleges (HC 595),
published 21 July 2009. Government Response published as Cm 7766
on 10 December 2009. Not included in Appendix: Response too recently
published for follow-up to be useful.
Twelfth Report, Macpherson Report-Ten Years On
(HC 427), published 22 July 2009. Government response published
as HC 461 of Session 2009-10. Not included in Appendix: Response
too recently published for follow-up to be useful.
Thirteenth Report, Managing Migration: The Points-Based
System (HC 217), published 1 August 2009, Government Response
published as Cm 7767 on 10 December 2009. Not included in Appendix:
Response too recently published for follow-up to be useful.
Fourteenth Report, The work of the Serious Organised
Crime Agency (HC 730), published 18 November 2009. No Government
Response required. Not included in Appendix: No recommendations
made to the Government.
Session 2009-10
First Report, The Detention of Children in the
Immigration System (HC 73), published 29 November 2009. Government
Response published as Cm 7795 in January 2010. Not included in
Appendix: Response too recently published for follow-up to be
useful.
Second Report, The work of the UK Border Agency
(HC 105-I), published 8 December 2009. Government Response
published as HC 370 on 12 February 2010. Not included in Appendix:
too recently published for follow-up to be useful.
Third Report, The E-Borders Programme (HC
170), published 18 December 2009.
Fourth Report, Work of the Committee in 2008-09
(HC 265), published 15 January 2010. No Government Response required.
Not included in Appendix: No recommendations made to the Government.
Fifth Report, Police Service Strength (HC
50), published 26 January 2010.
Sixth Report, The Home Office's Response to Terrorist
Attacks (HC 117), published on 2 February 2010.
Seventh Report, The Cocaine Trade (HC 74),
published on 3 March 2010.
Eighth Report, The National DNA Database (HC
222 ), published on 8 March 2010.
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