Ministerial role

Minister for Security

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for:

international counter-terrorism
counter-terrorism operations
Pursue, including TPIMs and DWA policy
counter-terrorism policing, including section 26 authorisations
communications capabilities, including communications data
Protect, including critical national infrastructure
security exports, Olympic legacy and the 2014 Commonwealth Games
counter-terrorism science and technology, including chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear and explosive
space security
maritime security
Guantanamo detainees and civil litigation
Prevent, including extremism task force and RICU
mass fatalities, civil contingencies, interoperability
aviation security
proscription
Prepare
political and domestic extremism
terrorist finance
Northern Ireland
European Union, including justice and home affairs opt-out
special cases, including exclusions, deprivations, national security deportations
National Crime Agency
serious organised crime
cyber crime and security
fraud and asset recovery
human trafficking, including the Modern Slavery Bill