The 13 defined Social Value Measures in the User Services for the Emergency Services Network (ESN) are detailed below:

1. Environmental Champion
2. Ratify baseline measures to build sustainability goals – ESN Programme
3. Environmental Sustainability Workshop and develop sustainability goals
4. Run annual Sustainability Awareness Assessment – ESN Programme
5. Run annual Sustainability Awareness Assessment – UO focused
6. Establish Environmental Community Group (ECG)
7. Establish sustainability space on Supplier’s ESN community portal
8. Offer access to sustainability space on Supplier’s ESN community portal – to US representatives
9. Make available Sustainability Awareness Training – including ‘Green IT’ to ESN Programme Teams
10. Make available Sustainability Awareness Training – including ‘Green IT’ to UOs’ ESN Technical Teams
11. Fighting Climate Change Volunteering – Supplier volunteering
12. Fighting Climate Change Volunteering – Supplier volunteering with UOs
13. Enactus – Local Community based Social Impact Programme – ESN Programme and UOs.

The above measures are assessed either on a binary basis (achieved/not achieved) or against defined quantitative targets, such as the delivery of specified activity volumes or hours within a stated period.

This charter ("Manual of Me") was implemented to drive Social Value through the Home Office's supply chain on the METIS Contract.

It was specifically designed to strengthen collaboration and foster a more inclusive and supportive partnership approach to deliver and track the shared goals and values throughout the life of the contract that were established as critical during the procurement and evaluation process

The Home Office has not conducted research on the reasons why much of the most serious criminality is committed by men. The Government is committed to keeping people safe and tackling all forms of crime

The sharing of operational information between police forces is a matter for chief constables, who are responsible for ensuring that information is recorded and shared in accordance with operational requirements and legal obligations.

The Government recognises the importance of effective data sharing across policing and the wider criminal justice system. The Government's White Paper, From Local to National: A New Model for Policing, sets out plans to strengthen police data capabilities, including through the introduction of national data standards and improved arrangements for sharing information across force boundaries.

This includes the development of the National Data Integration and Exploitation Service (NDIES), which is intended to support more consistent and effective sharing of policing data nationally and improve officers’ access to the information they need to prevent and investigate crime and protect the public.

In specialist crime types, such as serious and organised crime and county lines, policing has been effective in tackling cross-border crime.

Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), working with police forces across England and Wales, are a prime example of this.

In May 2026, Tarian ROCU, working with Gwent Police and Gloucestershire Constabulary, concluded Operation Rooster – a long running investigation into an organised crime group (OCG) operating across south Wales and south-west England. Tarian ROCU coordinated enforcement activity against a network involved in the supply of Class A and Class B drugs with an estimated street value of £3.5 million. Through evidence secured in the investigation, five members of the OCG were sentenced to a combined 41 years imprisonment.

Additionally, through the County Lines Programme, we fund the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre (NCLCC) to monitor the intelligence picture and co-ordinate the national law enforcement response to county lines. The NCLCC has been vital in strengthening the law enforcement response and enabling police forces to work together to tackle this complex, cross-border issue.

However, despite the success of these operations, the ability to tackle cross border crime and provide victims of these crimes with the support they need is not consistent across policing in England and Wales. The existing 43 force model is fractured, and we expect all 43 forces to be both highly responsive to local needs and to deal with major incidents and serious crimes. They are not set up to do both.

As set out in the Police Reform White Paper, we will set out to change that.

We will create

• Dedicated local policing units with dedicated local commanders, in every town, city and borough focused exclusively on everyday crime and anti-social behaviour.
• Strategic forces with the specialist skills and capacity to support local police when major or serious incidents occur. This will be informed by The Independent Review of Police Force Structures led by Lord Hogan-Howe, which will report in due course.
• A National Police Service (NPS) to ensure that the system is led and coordinated to keep pace with the international criminals using technology to cause serious harm to the public. In its final state, the NPS will bring together the National Crime Agency, Counter Terrorism Policing and the national facing capabilities dealing with cross-border serious and organised crime threats in ROCUs.

In specialist crime types, such as serious and organised crime and county lines, policing has been effective in tackling cross-border crime.

Regional Organised Crime Units (ROCUs), working with police forces across England and Wales, are a prime example of this.

In May 2026, Tarian ROCU, working with Gwent Police and Gloucestershire Constabulary, concluded Operation Rooster – a long running investigation into an organised crime group (OCG) operating across south Wales and south-west England. Tarian ROCU coordinated enforcement activity against a network involved in the supply of Class A and Class B drugs with an estimated street value of £3.5 million. Through evidence secured in the investigation, five members of the OCG were sentenced to a combined 41 years imprisonment.

Additionally, through the County Lines Programme, we fund the National County Lines Co-ordination Centre (NCLCC) to monitor the intelligence picture and co-ordinate the national law enforcement response to county lines. The NCLCC has been vital in strengthening the law enforcement response and enabling police forces to work together to tackle this complex, cross-border issue.

However, despite the success of these operations, the ability to tackle cross border crime and provide victims of these crimes with the support they need is not consistent across policing in England and Wales. The existing 43 force model is fractured, and we expect all 43 forces to be both highly responsive to local needs and to deal with major incidents and serious crimes. They are not set up to do both.

As set out in the Police Reform White Paper, we will set out to change that.

We will create

• Dedicated local policing units with dedicated local commanders, in every town, city and borough focused exclusively on everyday crime and anti-social behaviour.
• Strategic forces with the specialist skills and capacity to support local police when major or serious incidents occur. This will be informed by The Independent Review of Police Force Structures led by Lord Hogan-Howe, which will report in due course.
• A National Police Service (NPS) to ensure that the system is led and coordinated to keep pace with the international criminals using technology to cause serious harm to the public. In its final state, the NPS will bring together the National Crime Agency, Counter Terrorism Policing and the national facing capabilities dealing with cross-border serious and organised crime threats in ROCUs.

Under current local governance arrangements for policing, Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are responsible for holding Chief Constables to account and have been since they were first elected in November 2012. It would therefore be for the elected West Mercia PCC, John Campion, to decide if a survey of Bromsgrove residents is necessary.

The Government has committed to abolish PCCs at the end of their term of office in May 2028. That remains the plan. The Home Office continues to work with those in policing and local government to refine policy and plan for successor arrangements.

As part of the Government’s wider Police Reform agenda, we will be creating a new national force, the National Police Service (NPS) which will enable local forces to focus on local crime and strengthen our ability to deal with national and cross-border serious and organised crime threats. Additionally, we will carefully consider governance of forces when considering the Independent Review of Force Structure’s recommendations.

Police forces are operationally independent from Government and are responsible for decisions relating to their resourcing to respond to and investigate crime.

The Home Office has no record of ever having had a policy of non-engagement with Greenpeace.

No. The subject matter of a Freedom of Information request is not, in itself, a criterion for referral to the Communications Directorate or special advisers. Requests are considered on a case-by-case basis and may be referred where appropriate. There is no automatic referral solely because a request concerns immigration, visas or asylum. The department has no current plans to publish its internal operational guidance on referral criteria.

During the period of hot weather, ASRU assessed temperature data provided by MBR Acres in June and July 2026, and found no evidence of adverse animal welfare impacts.

Establishments are required to undertake daily checks by competent persons to monitor animal welfare and environmental conditions, take prompt action where necessary, and report any actual or potential breach of licence conditions to the Home Office.

The Home Office manages Freedom of Information requests through the eCase case management system. eCase records the date a request is received, the applicable statutory deadline and activity relating to the handling of the case, including referrals to the Communications Directorate and special advisers as part of the Department's review processes. This information remains visible within the system, allowing case owners to track the progress and history of a case throughout its lifecycle

Immigration Enforcement records immigration status information for individuals referred to it by the police for operational purposes.

This does not represent all alleged perpetrators of violence against women and girls and is not routinely collated by VAWG offence type or the age of the victim.

There are currently no plans to publish the data in this format.

Asylum seekers who engage in antisocial or criminal behaviour will be subject to the same legal consequences as any other individual residing in the country and will have their immigration status reviewed, if convicted.

No one in the UK, including foreign nationals, asylum seekers or refugees, is above the law. Asylum seekers are clearly advised of the expectations the Home Office and accommodation providers have for them to behave responsibly while they are accommodated in Home Office properties and not to engage in any form of criminal or anti-social activity.

Tacking Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) is a top priority for the Government. Our mission is to halve the levels of these crimes within a decade, using every lever available to us. “Freedom from Violence and Abuse: a cross-government strategy to build a safer society for women and girls”, sets out the strategic direction and concrete actions to prevent violence and abuse, pursue perpetrators, and support victims.

The Home Office does not centrally hold data that would enable an estimate to be made of the number of women and girls who have been victims of sexual offences allegedly committed by people who entered the UK illegally by small boat.

The Home Office has not made an assessment of whether the age profile of female victims of crimes allegedly committed by asylum seekers differs from that of female victims of comparable offences committed by the wider population.

All criminal offences are investigated by the police and prosecuted independently where appropriate.

The Home Office does not hold the information requested. Information on criminal offences and criminal justice outcomes is not routinely recorded or published in a way that identifies whether an offender was a member of an organised grooming gang.

Data on the total number of charges for rape offences, not specifically those relating to grooming gangs, recorded in England and Wales for each of the last ten years is shown below. As policing is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland, the Home Office does not hold equivalent data for those jurisdictions.

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on convictions for rape offences in its Criminal Justice System statistics. These data do not identify whether offenders were members of organised grooming gangs. Ministry of Justice date is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/criminal-justice-statistics-quarterly-march-2026

The Government is committed to improving its understanding of, and response to, group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse. This includes investing in specialist policing capabilities through the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) Programme and the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce to improve the identification of offenders, support victims and bring perpetrators to justice. The Government is also implementing all of Baroness Casey’s recommendations following her National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.

The Government is committed to ensuring that non-human primates used in scientific procedures are sourced responsibly and used only where no suitable alternative is available. In 2025, 1,845 non-human primates were used for the first time in scientific procedures in Great Britain. All marmosets, tamarins and rhesus monkeys were born at licensed establishments in the UK, while the majority of cynomolgus monkeys were born overseas, but were not sourced from the wild.

Following advice from the Animals in Science Committee, the Home Office strengthened its sourcing requirements from 1 August 2025 so that non-human primates should come from established captive-breeding populations rather than being sourced from the wild. These requirements are supported by a time-limited transitional arrangement and a commitment to review their operation.

The Government supports the use of UK-bred non-human primates where suitable animals are available. However, sourcing decisions must take account of scientific requirements, animal welfare, biosecurity and the availability of appropriate breeding populations. The Home Office will continue to monitor sourcing data and the effect of the strengthened requirements.

The Government is also investing £75 million through its strategy to support the development, validation and uptake of alternatives to animal use.

This Government is clear that anti-Muslim hatred is completely unacceptable and has no place in our society.

The Government expects police to enforce the law where appropriate to protect communities and maintain public order and public safety. The Government is committed to upholding freedom of speech, but the freedom to express views does not extend to language, displays of writing or images that incite violence, hatred or criminal behaviour. Whether specific speech, chants, placards or slogans constitute an offence depends on the context surrounding the incident, and decisions on enforcement are a matter for the police.

The College of Policing is responsible for providing guidance to police and is operationally independent from Government. The College produces the Public Order Public Safety authorised professional practice, which covers protests and disorder, and jointly publishes the Protest Operational Advice Document with the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The Crown Prosecution Service has also published guidance on protest-related offences. All of these documents are published online.

Under the replacement system proposed by the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council in their joint review of non-crime hate incidents, non-crime incidents motivated by hostility will be recorded only where there is a clear policing purpose. The new framework is being developed with policing partners and is expected to be implemented in early 2027. Until then, police forces continue to apply existing arrangements for recording and managing non-crime hate incidents.

This Government is clear that anti-Muslim hatred is completely unacceptable and has no place in our society.

The Government expects police to enforce the law where appropriate to protect communities and maintain public order and public safety. The Government is committed to upholding freedom of speech, but the freedom to express views does not extend to language, displays of writing or images that incite violence, hatred or criminal behaviour. Whether specific speech, chants, placards or slogans constitute an offence depends on the context surrounding the incident, and decisions on enforcement are a matter for the police.

The College of Policing is responsible for providing guidance to police and is operationally independent from Government. The College produces the Public Order Public Safety authorised professional practice, which covers protests and disorder, and jointly publishes the Protest Operational Advice Document with the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The Crown Prosecution Service has also published guidance on protest-related offences. All of these documents are published online.

Under the replacement system proposed by the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council in their joint review of non-crime hate incidents, non-crime incidents motivated by hostility will be recorded only where there is a clear policing purpose. The new framework is being developed with policing partners and is expected to be implemented in early 2027. Until then, police forces continue to apply existing arrangements for recording and managing non-crime hate incidents.

This Government is clear that anti-Muslim hatred is completely unacceptable and has no place in our society.

The Government expects police to enforce the law where appropriate to protect communities and maintain public order and public safety. The Government is committed to upholding freedom of speech, but the freedom to express views does not extend to language, displays of writing or images that incite violence, hatred or criminal behaviour. Whether specific speech, chants, placards or slogans constitute an offence depends on the context surrounding the incident, and decisions on enforcement are a matter for the police.

The College of Policing is responsible for providing guidance to police and is operationally independent from Government. The College produces the Public Order Public Safety authorised professional practice, which covers protests and disorder, and jointly publishes the Protest Operational Advice Document with the National Police Chiefs’ Council. The Crown Prosecution Service has also published guidance on protest-related offences. All of these documents are published online.

Under the replacement system proposed by the College of Policing and National Police Chiefs' Council in their joint review of non-crime hate incidents, non-crime incidents motivated by hostility will be recorded only where there is a clear policing purpose. The new framework is being developed with policing partners and is expected to be implemented in early 2027. Until then, police forces continue to apply existing arrangements for recording and managing non-crime hate incidents.