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Departmental Report and Corporate Plan

We have today published the Home Office's 2005 annual report, its 2005–06 corporate plan and its departmental investment strategy. Copies are available in the House Library and on the Home Office website. The first two of these describe how the Home Office builds a safe, just and tolerant society as reflected in our strategic objectives and key targets. These set out how, in turn, delivery depends on the Department's three key pillars of responsibility, dealing with, policing security, community safety and active communities; ensuring that our new National Offender Management Service is implemented and that we work effectively with our partners across the criminal justice system (CJS); and establishing a clearly robust and fair approach to immigration, citizenship and nationality. The report is primarily focused on 2004–05, setting out our performance against key targets and describing how our activities contributed towards them. The plan is focused on the present financial year, explaining how we will deliver better public services and how the Department is organising itself to deliver these. We are also placing on our website www.homeoffice.gov.uk the Department's investment strategy. This sets out at greater length the critical role that capital investment plays in improving our key public services.