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Home Affairs Committee

Commons Select Committee

The Home Affairs Committee is a cross-party committee of MPs responsible for scrutinising the work of the Home Office and its associated bodies. It examines government policy, spending and the law in areas including immigration, security, and policing. You can follow the Committee on X (formerly Twitter) using @CommonsHomeAffs.

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Reports, special reports and government responses

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1st Report - Appointment of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
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HC 713
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Response to this report
Response from the Minister for Migration & Citizenship relating to the appointment of a permanent Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (ICIBI) 02.06.2025
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2nd Report – Police response to the 2024 summer disorder
Inquiry Summer 2024 disorder
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Third Report - Policing of protests
Inquiry Policing of protests
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Fifth Special Report - Policing of protests: Government Response to the Committee’s Third Report
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Correspondence

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Letter from the Minister for Border Security and Asylum relating to its annual review of asylum support rates 04.06.2025
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Letter from the Minister of State for Policing and Crime Prevention relating to police pensions remedy 21.05.2025
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Letter from the Home Secretary relatin to the Immigration White Paper 12.05.2025
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Oral evidence transcripts

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3 June 2025
Work The work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)
Witnesses Rt Hon Yvette Cooper (Home Secretary at Home Office), Dame Antonia Romeo DCB (Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Simon Ridley (Second Permanent Secretary at Home Office)
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13 May 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Steve Lakey (Managing Director at Clearsprings Ready Homes), Claudia Sturt (Prisons and Immigration Director at Serco UK & Europe), and Jason Burt (Group Director of Health Safety & Compliance at Mears Group)
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6 May 2025
Inquiry Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding
Witnesses Sarah Fulham (Director of Domestic Abuse at Hestia), Ghadah Alnasseri (Executive Director at Imkaan), Ellie Butt (Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Refuge), and Leyla Buran (Campaigns and Policy Manager at White Ribbon UK)
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Written evidence

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Deighton Pierce Glyn (AAC0142)
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
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Mears Group (AAC0143)
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
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Local Government Association (AAC0144)
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
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Other publications

Government Responses
The Government has undertaken to respond to most committee reports within two months, although there are exceptions to this rule.
34 published
Formal Minutes
Formal minutes produced for committee meetings.
18 published
Attendance statistics
Statistics for the attendance at committee meetings.
13 published
Estimate memoranda
Explanatory memoranda that accompany Government Estimates.
41 published
Engagement documents
Documents relating to committee engagement activities, such as forums, surveys or ‘roundtable’ events with experts and stakeholders that the committee has chosen to make public.
1 published
Older evidence
Written evidence and oral evidence transcripts transferred from our archive website.
30 published
Other documents
Other documents connected to the committee's work.
8 published
Pre-2010 publications
Committee documents published online before May 2010.

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