Ministerial role

Minister of State for Policing and the Fire Service

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The minister is responsible for:

  • police finance and resourcing
  • police reform and governance
  • police representative groups
  • police pay and pensions
  • police workforce
  • the Independent Police Complaints Commission
  • Policing and Crime Bill
  • police integrity and transparency (including HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, police powers)
  • emergency services collaboration
  • firearms
  • single infrastructure policing
  • crime statistics
  • national fire policy (including fire safety)
  • Grenfell Tower victims work
  • Chief Fire and Rescue Adviser
  • national resilience and fire programmes
  • localism and reform
  • workforce pay and pensions and industrial relations
  • extradition
  • mutual legal assistance
  • EU criminal justice (including Europol, Eurojust, Prüm and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office)
  • Interpol
  • foreign criminality
  • security industry engagement

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Nick Hurd

    2017 to 2019

  2. The Rt Hon Brandon Lewis CBE

    2016 to 2017