Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Lords select committee, since 14 April 2021. Its page on the Parliament website.

The Justice and Home Affairs Committee was appointed to consider justice and home affairs, including the domestic criminal justice system, and international cooperation in respect of criminal justice, civil justice, migration and asylum.

Inquiries

• Support for Jurors (24 July 2026)
• Work of the Ministry of Justice (9 June 2026)
• Work of the Home Office (9 June 2026)
• Fire Safety in Prisons (21 May 2026)
• Settlement, Citizenship and Integration (18 November 2025)
• Work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (19 June 2025 to 20 June 2025)
• Investigation into electronic monitoring (6 June 2025 to 2 July 2025)
• Prison culture: governance, leadership and staffing (30 October 2024)
• Electronic border management systems - follow-up (15 October 2024 to 17 October 2024)
• Tackling Shop theft (13 May 2024)
• Electronic border management systems (21 February 2024 to 22 February 2024)
• Live Facial Recognition (21 November 2023 to 24 January 2024)
• Victims’ Commissioners evidence session (10 July 2023 to 9 August 2023)
• Community sentences (3 April 2023 to 26 July 2024)
• Post-Brexit UK-EU security cooperation – follow up (28 February 2023 to 26 July 2023)
• Family Migration (1 July 2022 to 20 September 2023)
• The Life in the UK test (29 March 2022 to 14 April 2023)
• Home Office oral evidence session (11 October 2021 to 12 October 2021)
• Ministry of Justice oral evidence session (2 September 2021 to 3 September 2021)
• ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) (26 May 2021 to 23 February 2022)
• New technologies and the application of the law (26 May 2021 to 29 November 2022)

Organisations it has heard from most

• Home Office (10)
• Ministry of Justice (6)
• Eurostar (4)
• University of Birmingham (4)
• HMPPS (3)
• Howard League for Penal Reform (3)
• National Police Chiefs' Council (3)
• British Future (2)
• Getlink Group (2)
• HM Prison and Probation Service (2)
• London School of Economics (LSE) (2)
• Migration Observatory (2)
• Northumbria University (2)
• Policy Exchange (2)
• Prison Governors’ Association (2)