Home Office

The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK. Home Office is a ministerial department, supported by 30 agencies and public bodies.

Website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office

Ministers

• The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
  Secretary of State for the Home Department
• The Rt Hon Tom Tugendhat MBE VR MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Security)
• The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Immigration)
• The Rt Hon Chris Philp MP
  Minister of State (Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire)
• Sarah Dines MP
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Safeguarding)
• Lord Murray of Blidworth
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Lords Minister)
• Lord Sharpe of Epsom OBE
  Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Petitions linked to this department

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• Allow all EU, EEA and Swiss nationals to enter UK with ID card
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  272 signatures so far

• Make assaulting a security worker a standalone offence
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  11,942 signatures so far

• Stop child sex offenders being able to live in the city that their victims live
  Opened on Tuesday 9th December 2025
  93 signatures so far

• End the UK's asylum system & right to asylum, use resources for border security
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  242 signatures so far

• Invoke Article 15 of the ECHR- to help tackle illegal migration
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  1,345 signatures so far

• Fund provision of stab vests and first aid kits for all
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  27 signatures so far

• Make it illegal to be drunk in public places except licensed venues
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  24 signatures so far

• Allow family visa holders to include time spent on a skilled worker visa for ILR
  Opened on Monday 8th December 2025
  121 signatures so far

• Allow SIA trained persons to carry CS/PAVA spray and ASP/ARNOLD batons
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  114 signatures so far

• New independent, judge-led national Inquiry into the scandal of the Rape Gangs
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  1,286 signatures so far

• UK humanitarian visa for people displaced by Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  46 signatures so far

• Remove speed cameras from motorways to improve safety and fairness
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  56 signatures so far

• Automatic Clare's law checks when notice of marriage is given to registry office
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  850 signatures so far

• Amend laws on parental titles on birth certificates
  Opened on Friday 5th December 2025
  257 signatures so far

• Scrap digital Veteran Cards
  Opened on Thursday 4th December 2025
  74 signatures so far

• Grant UK citizenship to anyone with Indefinite Leave to Remain or Settled Status
  Opened on Thursday 4th December 2025
  1,198 signatures so far

• Make face coverings illegal
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  340 signatures so far

• Ban cousin marriage
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  373 signatures so far

• Grant citizenship to residents living in the UK for 15+ years & their children
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  33 signatures so far

• Abolish 10 year spouse route and replace with one 5 year route to ILR
  Opened on Wednesday 3rd December 2025
  316 signatures so far

• Require protesters and police to be easily identifiable during protests
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  59 signatures so far

• Make identity theft a recordable crime
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  73 signatures so far

• Legislate crimes motivated by misogyny are hate crimes, fund support & training
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  113,651 signatures so far

• Keep the 5-year Indefinite Leave to Remain ILR for ex-Gurkhas & their families
  Opened on Tuesday 2nd December 2025
  163 signatures so far

• Fund improved measures to tackle Antisocial Behaviour and make communities safer
  Opened on Monday 1st December 2025
  78 signatures so far

• Windfall tax on excess asylum-accommodation profits
  Opened on Monday 1st December 2025
  76 signatures so far

• Allow 24 work hours for student & skilled worker visa holders outside main job
  Opened on Monday 1st December 2025
  56 signatures so far

• Restore dental nurses to the Skilled Worker Visa List
  Opened on Friday 28th November 2025
  132 signatures so far

• Mandatory anti-spiking measures in all nightclubs and bars
  Opened on Thursday 27th November 2025
  236 signatures so far

• Require organisers and attendees to pay for policing of protests
  Opened on Wednesday 26th November 2025
  70 signatures so far

• Make a law to protect ILR from abolition and retrospective changes
  Opened on Wednesday 26th November 2025
  2,287 signatures so far

• Introduce stricter controls and awareness campaigns to stop nitrous oxide misuse
  Opened on Tuesday 25th November 2025
  520 signatures so far

• Stop new powers limiting repeat protests
  Opened on Tuesday 25th November 2025
  492 signatures so far

• Review rules, policing and harm of marches
  Opened on Tuesday 25th November 2025
  1,758 signatures so far

• Make the spousal visa income requirement reflect regional living costs
  Opened on Monday 24th November 2025
  29 signatures so far

• Require gun sellers to verify firearms certificates with police before a sale
  Opened on Monday 24th November 2025
  68 signatures so far

• Make Skilled Worker sponsor-free after 5 years, with grace period and cap fees
  Opened on Friday 21st November 2025
  146 signatures so far

• Give the Home Secretary the same powers to ban static assemblies as marches
  Opened on Friday 21st November 2025
  38 signatures so far

• Create a voluntary physical national ID card
  Opened on Thursday 20th November 2025
  34 signatures so far

• Introduce a public misconduct register for police accountability & transparency
  Opened on Wednesday 19th November 2025
  699 signatures so far

• Provide Fully Funded Armed Security for Jewish Public Buildings
  Opened on Tuesday 18th November 2025
  188 signatures so far

• Keep 5-Year ILR and Restrict Access to Benefits for New ILR Holders
  Opened on Tuesday 18th November 2025
  244,298 signatures so far

• Make Ketamine a class A drug. Fund more research, information and support
  Opened on Tuesday 18th November 2025
  84 signatures so far

• Make it clear whether 10 year ILR rule would be retroactive or to newcomers
  Opened on Monday 17th November 2025
  25 signatures so far

• Ban publication of police officer names in misconduct hearings if not sacked
  Opened on Monday 17th November 2025
  7,936 signatures so far

• Enable parents to register birth and death of babies carried beyond 24 weeks
  Opened on Friday 14th November 2025
  363 signatures so far

• Change Sexual Offences Act rape definition to include any assault by penetration
  Opened on Thursday 13th November 2025
  217 signatures so far

• Increase minimum sentences for knife crimes including possession and use
  Opened on Thursday 13th November 2025
  127 signatures so far

• Provide regular statements on the progress of the National Rape Gang Inquiry
  Opened on Wednesday 12th November 2025
  131 signatures so far

• Remove Regulation 4(8) of the Police (Conduct) Regulations 2020
  Opened on Wednesday 12th November 2025
  46 signatures so far

• Make Holocaust denial and performing Nazi salutes a specific criminal offence
  Opened on Wednesday 12th November 2025
  101 signatures so far

• Decriminalise and legalise Magic Mushrooms
  Opened on Tuesday 11th November 2025
  181 signatures so far

• Automatically grant UK citizenship to people affected by historical unfairness
  Open from Monday 10th November 2025 to Sunday 10th May 2026
  34 signatures

• Reinstate the 'Charley Says' public information adverts to protect children
  Open from Monday 10th November 2025 to Sunday 10th May 2026
  84 signatures

• Allow BNO visa holders to work in sports and grassroots coaching
  Open from Friday 7th November 2025 to Thursday 7th May 2026
  285 signatures

• Stop the use of taxis for asylum seeker transport
  Open from Friday 7th November 2025 to Thursday 7th May 2026
  245 signatures

• Modernise treason laws to include terrorism and wilful betrayal of the state.
  Open from Thursday 6th November 2025 to Wednesday 6th May 2026
  174 signatures

• Keep the 5-Year ILR pathway for existing ECAA visa holders
  Open from Tuesday 4th November 2025 to Monday 4th May 2026
  10,355 signatures

• Legalise pepper spray in England
  Open from Monday 3rd November 2025 to Sunday 3rd May 2026
  6,829 signatures

• Grant UK citizenship to Europeans with settled status on request
  Open from Thursday 30th October 2025 to Thursday 30th April 2026
  59 signatures

• Always include child's biological father on birth certificate
  Open from Wednesday 29th October 2025 to Wednesday 29th April 2026
  88 signatures

• Ban cannabis blood tests
  Open from Tuesday 28th October 2025 to Tuesday 28th April 2026
  52 signatures

• Keep 5 Year ILR route for people who came to UK in 2023 or later
  Open from Monday 27th October 2025 to Monday 27th April 2026
  82 signatures

• Keep 5 year route to ILR for Existing Ancestry Visa Holders
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  2,354 signatures

• Make it legal to carry regulated non-lethal self-defence products.
  Open from Friday 24th October 2025 to Friday 24th April 2026
  1,504 signatures

• Make it an offence to carry a catapult in public without lawful defence
  Open from Thursday 23rd October 2025 to Thursday 23rd April 2026
  41,238 signatures

• Only introduce digital id cards for non-uk nationals
  Open from Thursday 23rd October 2025 to Thursday 23rd April 2026
  181 signatures

• Reschedule psilocybin from Schedule 1 to 2 to allow for use in medical research
  Open from Thursday 23rd October 2025 to Thursday 23rd April 2026
  367 signatures

• Deport asylum seekers from safe countries & review current asylum seekers
  Open from Wednesday 22nd October 2025 to Wednesday 22nd April 2026
  278 signatures

• Lower minimum salary threshold for veterinary surgeons on skilled visa
  Open from Tuesday 21st October 2025 to Tuesday 21st April 2026
  31 signatures

• Create a national smart device alert system for missing people
  Open from Friday 17th October 2025 to Friday 17th April 2026
  29 signatures

• New registry of people with 2+ protective orders & automatically notify partners
  Open from Friday 10th October 2025 to Friday 10th April 2026
  118 signatures

• Review Current Provision of Safe and Legal Routes for Asylum Seekers to the UK
  Open from Friday 10th October 2025 to Friday 10th April 2026
  55 signatures

• Prison Officer Occupation code 3314 to be added to Immigration Salary List
  Open from Tuesday 7th October 2025 to Tuesday 7th April 2026
  979 signatures

• Introduce mobility scheme for Ukrainian researchers to contribute to UK science
  Open from Tuesday 7th October 2025 to Tuesday 7th April 2026
  39 signatures

• Allow patients with a medical cannabis prescription to grow for personal use
  Open from Tuesday 7th October 2025 to Tuesday 7th April 2026
  124 signatures

• Outlaw the Nazi salute and Nazi symbols
  Open from Monday 6th October 2025 to Monday 6th April 2026
  91 signatures

• Review settlement routes for long-term adult residents in UK since childhood
  Open from Thursday 2nd October 2025 to Thursday 2nd April 2026
  50 signatures

• Grooming gang national enquiry to name officials and consider failures to act
  Open from Wednesday 1st October 2025 to Wednesday 1st April 2026
  649 signatures

• Withdraw from ECHR & stop processing asylum claims until Channel crossings stop
  Open from Wednesday 1st October 2025 to Wednesday 1st April 2026
  398 signatures

• Require civil harassment orders to be disclosed in enhanced DBS checks
  Open from Monday 29th September 2025 to Sunday 29th March 2026
  1,428 signatures

• Review verification processes used to verify age of illegal migrants under 18
  Open from Monday 29th September 2025 to Sunday 29th March 2026
  98 signatures

• Exempt students who arrived before July from changes to visa/settlement rules
  Open from Friday 26th September 2025 to Thursday 26th March 2026
  31 signatures

• Reduce ILR qualification to 7 years for long residence visa
  Open from Friday 26th September 2025 to Thursday 26th March 2026
  35 signatures

• Deport any migrant who is guilty of committing a sexual offence
  Open from Friday 26th September 2025 to Thursday 26th March 2026
  1,008 signatures

• Allow EU children of British parents to be sponsored under EU Settlement Scheme
  Open from Friday 26th September 2025 to Thursday 26th March 2026
  87 signatures

• Work with devolved governments to extend the grooming gangs inquiry
  Open from Thursday 25th September 2025 to Wednesday 25th March 2026
  443 signatures

• Mandate a minimum 2-year prison sentence for benefit fraud & penalise offenders
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  82 signatures

• Allow Skilled Worker visa holders to take unrestricted secondary work
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  37 signatures

• Allow care worker visa holders to change employer
  Open from Wednesday 24th September 2025 to Tuesday 24th March 2026
  1,341 signatures

• Fund the construction of more detention centres for illegal migrants
  Open from Monday 22nd September 2025 to Sunday 22nd March 2026
  167 signatures

• Investigation into UK Visa Appointment System
  Open from Monday 22nd September 2025 to Sunday 22nd March 2026
  43 signatures

• Ban paid protesting
  Open from Monday 22nd September 2025 to Sunday 22nd March 2026
  279 signatures

• Mandate police to use S61 to move illegal encampments from unauthorised sites
  Open from Monday 22nd September 2025 to Sunday 22nd March 2026
  329 signatures

• Ensure Home Office needs planning permission for all hotel asylum accommodation
  Open from Wednesday 17th September 2025 to Tuesday 17th March 2026
  281 signatures

• All UK homeless citizens should be prioritised for hotel accommodation
  Open from Wednesday 17th September 2025 to Tuesday 17th March 2026
  303 signatures

• Repeal changes to immigration visa & settlement requirements announced 1/07/2025
  Open from Wednesday 17th September 2025 to Tuesday 17th March 2026
  1,632 signatures

• Reinstate the policy to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
  Open from Tuesday 16th September 2025 to Monday 16th March 2026
  336 signatures

• Increase the maximum sentences for historical child abuse cases
  Open from Tuesday 16th September 2025 to Monday 16th March 2026
  61 signatures

• Legislate to ban participants wearing face coverings at demonstrations
  Open from Monday 15th September 2025 to Sunday 15th March 2026
  343 signatures

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