Home Affairs Committee
Commons select committee, since 3 May 1979. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Home Affairs Committee is a cross-party committee of MPs responsible for scrutinising the work of the Home Office and its associated bodies. It examines government policy, spending and the law in areas including immigration, security, and policing.
Inquiries
- Progress of government drugs policy (19 October 2026)
- Work-based immigration (15 September 2026)
- Pre-appointment hearing: His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Authorities (30 June 2026)
- Public disorder and irregular migration in Northern Ireland (23 June 2026)
- Asylum Accommodation: Follow Up (14 May 2026)
- Responses to antisemitism (1 May 2026)
- The Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs (30 April 2026)
- Violence Against Women and Girls strategy update (21 April 2026)
- The impact of serious and organised crime on local neighbourhoods (5 February 2026)
- Work of the Metropolitan Police Service (3 February 2026)
- Your Voice on Immigration (14 January 2026)
- Asylum and Returns Policy (10 December 2025)
- Football Policing (26 November 2025)
- The work of the Migration Advisory Committee (29 October 2025)
- Routes to Settlement (21 October 2025)
- Border security and irregular migration (8 October 2025)
- Border security and irregular migration: The work of the Border Security Command (10 September 2025)
- Harnessing the potential of new digital forms of identification (12 June 2025)
- Combatting New Forms of Extremism (14 May 2025)
- Modern Slavery Act: ten year review (3 March 2025)
- Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding (26 February 2025 to 9 December 2025)
- Pre-appointment hearing: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (11 February 2025)
- Implementation of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (10 January 2025)
- Asylum accommodation (17 December 2024 to 22 January 2026)
- The work of the Home Office (12 December 2024)
- Summer 2024 disorder (12 November 2024 to 9 December 2025)
- Police pensions and wellbeing (13 May 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Legal Migration (7 May 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- One off evidence session: the Brook House Inquiry (23 April 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Fire and Rescue Service (27 February 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- One-off session with the former Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (22 February 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Asylum decision-making and conversion to Christianity (22 February 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Non-contact sexual offences (21 February 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Work of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (6 February 2024 to 24 May 2024)
- Work of the Home Secretary (22 January 2024 to 30 May 2024)
- Policing of protests (29 November 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- The work of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (6 November 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Police and Crime Commissioners: 10 years on (25 September 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Fraud (14 September 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Pre-legislative scrutiny of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Draft Bill (24 May 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Policing of public protest (10 May 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Prevent review (13 March 2023 to 1 May 2024)
- Work of the Home Office: Windrush (28 February 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Human Trafficking (7 February 2023 to 24 May 2024)
- Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (22 November 2022 to 1 May 2024)
- Channel crossings (18 October 2022 to 24 May 2024)
- Policing priorities (21 July 2022 to 1 February 2024)
- Migration and asylum (4 May 2022 to 24 May 2024)
- Work of the Metropolitan Police Service (12 April 2022 to 1 May 2024)
- Home Office policy on Ukrainian refugees (4 March 2022 to 1 May 2024)
- Appointment of the HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (2 March 2022 to 1 May 2024)
- State of the fire and rescue services (21 February 2022 to 1 May 2024)
- Drugs (10 February 2022 to 1 February 2024)
- Spiking (9 December 2021 to 1 February 2024)
- Appointment of the Chair of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (27 October 2021 to 6 February 2023)
- State of policing and the fire and rescue services (18 October 2021 to 1 May 2024)
- Afghanistan: safe routes and resettlement (9 September 2021 to 1 May 2024)
- Investigation and prosecution of rape (21 April 2021 to 1 February 2024)
- Violence against women and girls (21 April 2021 to 24 May 2024)
- Policing and organisation of vigils relating to the safety of women in public places (18 March 2021 to 31 July 2022)
Organisations it has heard from most
- Home Office (53)
- National Police Chiefs' Council (18)
- Metropolitan Police Service (11)
- National Crime Agency (10)
- Refugee Council (6)
- National Fire Chiefs Council (5)
- Association of Police and Crime Commissioners (4)
- City of London Police (4)
- Crown Prosecution Service (4)
- HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (4)
- Local Government Association (4)
- Police Federation of England and Wales (4)
- Refuge (4)
- British Red Cross (3)
- Clearsprings Ready Homes (3)