Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire)

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities are:

  • policing
  • police accountability and efficiency
  • local policing response to organised crime
  • public order, major events and Public Order Bill
  • cutting crime
  • criminal justice system
  • drugs and county lines, cross-government combatting drugs lead
  • unauthorised encampments
  • firearms
  • alcohol and licensing
  • anti-social behaviour
  • neighbourhood crime
  • policing elements of rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) and any wider policing elements of the safeguarding portfolio
  • civil contingencies
  • Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP)
  • Police, Crime, Sentencing and the Courts Act
  • fire policy
  • Home Office elements of fire operations
  • Grenfell

Corporate responsibilities 

  • finance, including the spending review, budget and fiscal events

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Chris Philp MP

    2022 to 2024