Guidance

Home Office statistical work programme 2020 to 2021

Published 12 November 2020

Foreword

The work of the Home Office covers some of the most high-profile areas of government policy and there is significant public interest in our statistics. Our statistics continue to help inform public discourse on a wide range of areas including the work of the police, fire and rescue services to broader issues of public concern such as crime and immigration.

This work programme outlines our organisational structure, describes our most significant outputs, highlights recent developments and successes and gives details of our future improvement plans.

There is huge demand on the statistics teams across the Home Office and this is expected to continue to grow, illustrating the strong appetite for evidence to support the work of the department and inform parliamentary and public debate. We are committed to delivering high quality statistics for the public good in line with the Code of Practice for Statistics.

We are striving for continual improvement of our outputs and processes and have begun a broader transformation of our ways of working. With finite resources available it is important that we can utilise the most modern and efficient techniques to maximise our impact, not being afraid to innovate and try out new approaches.

Work in this programme has been prioritised in line with user needs. All users of our outputs are invited to comment on the extent to which this workplan meets their needs and to engage with us to provide statistics of the highest quality and value.

Daniel Shaw

Home Office Chief Statistician and Head of Profession for Statistics

ChiefStatistician@homeoffice.gov.uk

Statistics in the Home Office

Home Office Statisticians are responsible for providing statistical evidence and analysis to government, parliament, academics and the wider public. We aim to provide robust evidence and advice to inform government policy development and operational decision-making. We also help to inform public debate by making a wide range of data available for public use and to aid the accountability of the Home Office to parliament and the public.

We produce Official and National Statistics on a range of topics including:

• crime
• migration
• policing and police workforce
• alcohol and drugs
• licensing
• animals in science
• counter-terrorism
• fire and rescue

We also provide support to key partners in the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Ministry of Justice (MoJ), including input to some joint outputs, as well as providing statistical advice, guidance and support to Home Office’s Arm’s Length Bodies (e.g. HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)).

The Home Office produces over 20 different Official and National Statistics releases each year, as well as collaborating to support to several cross-government publications. A full list of our statistical publications can be found in Annex A.

Alongside our statistical data collections and releases, Home Office statisticians play an important role in ensuring the Home Office meets its public and parliamentary obligations. Across all the teams, we answer or contribute to around 200 statistics-related Parliamentary Questions and around 100 Freedom of Information (FOI) requests annually.

From April 2017, our core statistical resource sits within the Home Office Analysis and Insight Directorate, across four teams, based on broad topic areas. The statistical teams sit within larger organisational units alongside teams from other analytical professions (e.g. economists, operational researchers and social researchers), again, grouped by broad policy areas. Information about each of our statistical teams and their work is given below.

Crime and Policing Statistics

The Crime and Policing Statistics Programme are part of the Crime and Policing Analysis Unit. We analyse and publish a wide range of statistics, including those on police recorded crime and the outcomes of related police investigations, hate crime, crime against businesses, the police workforce, police powers and procedures, and terrorism. We oversee the publication annually of the Home Office Counting Rules for Recorded Crime which underpin the police recorded crime statistics. We provide police recorded crime statistics to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and work closely with ONS on the production of quarterly crime statistics, and more focused compendium publications.

We also engage in more formal mechanisms for managing data collection burdens placed on suppliers. Our data collections from police forces are governed by the Annual Data Requirement. This covers the range of new data collections requested from police forces by government and the wider policing family. Every year, data collections are reviewed to ensure their continued relevance. We work closely with policy officials, police force analysts and police IT specialists to ensure that the data collections included are proportionate, necessary, of high quality and technically feasible.

As well as producing and developing these statistics, we also provide comprehensive briefing for ministers and policy teams and draft responses to numerous Parliamentary Questions, Freedom of Information requests and ad hoc queries.

Recent achievements

• On 5 September 2019 the Prime Minister announced the Government commitment to recruit an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales by 31 March 2023. We introduced a new quarterly release to provide users with regular updates on progress with this programme which was commended by the Office for Statistics Regulation. We have already published two quarterly updates towards the target and provided details of the finalised methodology for determining the starting figure against which recruitment of police officers will be monitored.
• Developing crime outcomes data to improve transparency around police investigations and highlight how police recorded crimes are “resolved” by police.
• Helping to maintain the quality of crime data received from police forces, by working with the College of Policing to ensure several training courses are delivered to Police Force Crime Registrars to retain their accredited status. We facilitate an annual conference with Force Crime Registrars to share best practice and emerging issues.
• We have improved several Crime and Policing Statistics releases, which have been re-badged or newly badged as National Statistics (police powers, workforce, terrorism, drug seizures, Homicide Index).
• We migrated our databases off legacy systems into a modern environment which should make data manipulation and analysis more efficient. This new environment has modern open source software tools giving us greater flexibility and control over the data.
• We have worked on a project to improve the completeness of data sent to us monthly for police recorded crime. From this project we have also found data which needs improving and can feedback to forces with actionable items to improve data quality.
• Following the UK Statistics Authority noting that arrangements for police funding were complicated, we introduced a new annual bulletin to provide a single source of statistical information on police funding levels. This will help to inform debates on police funding by providing a single authoritative source of facts.

Future developments

• We are currently working closely with stakeholders and police forces to develop a record level data collection on the police workforce, with the hope that this could replace some of the current aggregate data collections. A record level dataset would mean that we can do much more in-depth analysis that is not possible with the current data collection.
• We are working with police forces to improve the quality of data they send us. We are testing the use of natural language processing technology to automate the recording of key attributes of an offence, such as involvement of a knife. This has the potential to reduce burdens for forces in recording and provide more consistency across forces.
• We paused the Commercial Victimisation Survey (CVS) for one year and used that time to consult with stakeholders and wider users of the data. We reviewed feedback and are soon to launch a new style CVS which, for the first time, will cover all commercial sectors in one year. The sample of wholesale and retail premises will be boosted to allow continued long-term trend analysis in that sector, and to account for continued interest in the sector, specifically regarding violence against shopworkers.

Migration Statistics

The Migration Statistics team are a part of the Home Office Analysis and Insight directorate. We publish a range of data on different aspects of the immigration system in our quarterly Immigration Statistics release. We ensure that our migration statistics are kept under review, and that we continually improve and enhance both the statistics themselves and users’ understanding of them.

As well as producing and developing these statistics, we also provide comprehensive briefing for ministers and policy teams and draft responses to numerous Parliamentary Questions, Freedom of Information requests and ad hoc queries.

We work in partnership with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), devolved administrations and other government departments to develop our understanding of the migration statistics and improve the migration evidence base, including as part of the cross-government work to put administrative data at the core of migration statistics.

Recent achievements

Data Tables

• We have reformatted our data tables to allow users more freedom to analyse the data to meet their specific needs. These now include ‘summary tables’ which provide a high-level overview of the statistics. These are accompanied by more detailed ‘datasets’ which allow users to break the data down further. More information can be found in publishing detailed datasets in immigration statistics.

Managed Migration

• In August 2020, we updated the annual experimental statistics on Exit checks data (covering visa-compliance by visa route (e.g. study)), streamlining the presentation, reducing superfluous text and clarifying definitions.
• Migrant journey analyses provide a longitudinal analysis of migration by people arriving on non-visit visas. In May 2020, we further developed the Migrant Journey release by streamlining the presentation and restructuring the report around different migration pathways (Work, Study and Family); publishing additional age and sex breakdowns for the first time; and adding pivot tables that users can manipulate to obtain specific breakdowns for their needs.
• We’ve had a dynamic response following the Covid-19 pandemic. In May 2020, we published an ad hoc statistics release to help inform the public understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the UK’s immigration system (Statistics relating to Covid-19 and the immigration system). In August 2020, we provided an update to the data on passenger arrivals into the UK, a key area of interest during the COVID-19 outbreak (Statistics relating to passenger arrivals since the COVID-19 outbreak). In addition, we have included sections on the impact of COVID-19 in the regular Immigration Statistics.
• In February 2020 we published a one-off release on ‘Grenfell immigration policy statistics’, which provides statistics on the number of survivors and relatives considered under the Grenfell immigration policies
• Following the EU referendum, the Home Office also publishes more detailed data tables on citizenship, EEA residence and family member documents to meet increased interest.

Asylum and resettlement

• In August 2020, we published data on the number of unaccompanied minors transferred to the UK under Section 67 of the Immigration Act (‘Dubs amendment’), as part of the quarterly Immigration Statistics. This is a key area of political debate.
• In November 2017, experimental data on Asylum Claims on the Basis of Sexual Orientation were published for the first time. As such, we’re proud to say that to the best of our knowledge the UK is the first country to routinely publish such information - with the most recent update in August 2020.
• In February 2018, we published data on those transferred into and out of the UK under the Dublin regulation for the first time and will continue to update each February as part of the regular quarterly immigration statistics.

Enforcement

• In November 2018, we published data on deaths in immigration detention, and absconds from immigration detention. This will be updated annually each August. We also announced our intention to review the data we publish on enforcement through a public consultation.

EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• Following the opening of the EU Settlement Scheme on 29 March 2019, we have published both monthly and quarterly statistics on the scheme. The monthly EUSS publications (first published in May 2019) provide more timely, high level figures up to the end of the preceding month. The quarterly publications (first published in August 2019) provide a more detailed breakdown of the applications received and concluded by the preceding monthly reports, including local authority level data.
• Both reports have evolved since first publication following extensive consultation with internal and external stakeholders. We have welcomed user feedback on the EUSS publications and made changes to deliver bulletins that better meet user needs.
• In July 2020, the monthly publication moved to a new format, with more timely headline figures updated monthly on the main EUSS statistics landing page. The quarterly publications now focussed on important improvements to more detailed aspects of the statistics, with substantial work recently completed to integrate paper-based applications into the statistics. This cohort includes all those making an application through Derivative Rights routes, which is of considerable public interest.

Future developments

• In February 2020, Government announced its intention to introduce a new Points-Based Immigration System, to be phased in starting from October 2020. We are currently developing a data publication strategy to incorporate data from the new system into our regular Immigration Statistics publication cycle.
• The Home Office are currently transforming the casework systems from which administrative data used in the quarterly Immigration Statistics are derived. We will maximise the potential of novel data formats from the new systems and plan to explore the feasibility of adding additional breakdowns to the published statistics.
• We are working to expand the analysis presented in statistics relating to exit checks, making further use of the data available within the ISA system.
• We are reviewing the enforcement data that is published in order to provide a more comprehensive overview of the detention and returns system, following the Home Secretary’s commitment to publish more data on detention in response to the Stephen Shaw Review.
• We are currently investigating new data sources to replace landing-card based arrival data relating to passenger arrivals by nationality and reason for entry.
• We intend to expand our current definition on deaths in detention. This will include additional information, such as cases where individuals died outside of detention but as a result of an incident that occurred while in detention. This will also include additional breakdowns such as cause of death and place of death.
• are currently developing our IT systems to facilitate the transition across to a new immigration case working system. This work involves developing a reproducible analytical pipeline in order to streamline and automate much of our data extraction and manipulation processes.
• For the EUSS statistics, we are developing a data matching methodology to identify applications that have been submitted by the same individual. This will help us to determine the proportion of “follow-on” applications.
• We will continue close working with ONS and other departments, as part of the cross-government programme of statistical work to put admin data at the core of migration statistics.

Fire Statistics

The Fire Statistics team is part of the Fire, Licensing and Public Order Analysis Unit (FLPOAU) and is responsible for the statistical evidence base on fire and rescue activity in England. Our team were formerly part of the Department for Communities and Local Government (now Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government, MHCLG) but moved to the Home Office in April 2016, to coincide with the move of responsibility for fire policy.

We manage the collection of data on incidents attended by fire and rescue services, via the electronic Incident Recording System (IRS). We publish statistics on the trends in the number and type of these incidents, response times and casualties resulting from them. In addition, we collect and publish data on fire and rescue workforce, pensions, firefighter safety and fire prevention and protection activity.

Our data collections from Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) and other local authorities are governed by the MHCLG Single Data List Process, which includes working with local authority representatives to review and consider the data burdens involved in our collections.

Recent achievements

• We developed the statistical release on Response times to fires attended by fire and rescue services in England in response to user feedback, by publishing statistics on the component parts of total response times and ensuring erroneous data is excluded. Other developments include condensing the data tables for ease of use and displaying response times as minutes and seconds instead of decimal minutes to improve their layout and allowing for easier analysis and including ‘heat and/or smoke damage only’ incidents in the calculations following the public consultation.
• We improved our quarterly Fire and rescue incident statistics publication by stream-lining the statistical commentary and testing a new interim publication template that will provide consistency in how Home Office publications are displayed.
• Further datasets were added to our suite of incident level datasets, such as the ‘Outdoor fires dataset’, the ‘Flooding and water rescue incidents dataset’, and the ‘Low level geography dataset’. These incident level datasets improve the ability of the fire sector and others to do more detailed analyses and enhance the quality of the data held, benefitting the Home Office, FRSs and external users.
• To allow for improved guidance and easier navigation for users, we developed the fire statistics webpages on GOV.UK. We did this by creating specific webpages for the different parts of the collection and ensuring previous versions of the data tables are available so that analysis from previous publications can be re-created.
• We created the Detailed analysis of non-fire incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England statistical release to reflect the fact that firefighters attend as many non-fire incidents as fires and which is updated annually.
• We updated our bespoke Firenet system and migrated it into the Cloud, to allow the team to utilize more software packages and upgrade the information technology.

Future developments

• We will develop the operational statistics collections agreed at the Fire Central Local Government Information Partnership group, following feedback from fire and rescue services, to help inform Hackett review recommendations and enable the publication of figures at a national level following HMICFRS data collection at an individual FRS level.
• We will review our production processes and introduce more Reproducible Analytical Pipelines, using both SQL and R coding packages. This will aid the collection, quality assurance and dissemination of our statistical collections.

Licensing and Public Order Statistics

The Licensing and Public Order Statistics team are part of the Fire, Licensing and Public Order Analysis Unit (FLPOAU). We publish six annual Official and National Statistics releases, as well as being responsible for providing statistical advice and responding to queries. Our statistical releases cover a range of Home Office policy areas which involve the licensing of individuals/organisations (e.g. conducting animal experiments, owning or using firearms and shotguns), or which relate to public order (such as football-related arrests, or police use of force).

FLPOAU also includes the Police Data Collection Section (PDCS). PDCS are responsible for running around 21 data collections, predominantly from police forces, which underpin the work of the Licensing and Public Order Statistics team and the Crime and Policing Statistics team.

Recent achievements

• The 2019 ‘Annual statistics on scientific procedures on living animals’ published in July 2020, featured improvements to the accessibility of the report.
• In March 2019, we published the results of the public consultation on the ‘Alcohol and late-night refreshment’ statistics. The recommendations were “to substantially reduce the length of the questionnaire and move to collecting and publishing the data every other year. This will reduce the burden on licensing authorities of collecting this data while continuing to ensure the data series is available for uses”. The Home Office decided to cancel the 2020 alcohol and late-night refreshment licensing collection to reduce the burden on licensing authorities who are responsible for collecting these data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The next collection will be in 2021.
• The experimental statistics release ‘Police use of force in England and Wales’ featured information from police forces on incidents in which officers used force (from handcuffing to firearms) on individuals. The most recent publication in December 2019 included improvements in the way the CED (i.e. TASER®) data was presented by showing use by ethnicity groups. Four new tables were also included showing data broken down by police force.
• We have been provided with access to the National Firearms Licensing Management System (NFLMS), which holds the information on firearms and shotgun licenses we use for our annual publication. Access to the system has allowed us to understand how the recording system works and thus how it can be improved.
• In September 2019, we published ‘Football-related arrests and banning orders’. The release included improvements to the content and structure, including a new and more visually engaging summary to explain key points. It also included new ‘experimental statistics’ on other arrests at football matches and reported incidents of football-related anti-social behaviour, violence and disorder involving supporters of English and Welsh clubs, playing in England and Wales. A new 2-page infographic was published which was received positively by both internal and external users. The subsequent publication in September 2020 included, for the first time, verified incidents of hate crime attributable to a designated fixture reported to the Home Office by Kick It Out and The Football Association, including online incidents.
• PDCS have worked with the Crime and Policing Statistics team on a project to migrate data off legacy systems into a modern environment which has already made data manipulation and analysis more efficient. This new environment has modern open source software tools giving us greater flexibility and control over the data.

Future developments

• We will continue to work with police forces and the National Police Chief’s Council to improve data quality for the new police use of force statistical collection. These statistics are intended to hold police forces to account and will also be used to inform developments to policies on police training and officer safety.
• We will collaborate with colleagues in HM Inspectorate of Constabularies and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), by providing data on police use of force to inform police force inspections. This will promote improved and widespread use of the data and reduce the burden on police forces to provide information prior to inspections.
• We will work with Animals in Science Regulation Unit (ASRU) to improve the way ‘Return of Procedures’ documentation is collection from establishments.
• We will continue to enhance the monthly data quality reporting we do with UK Football Policing Unit (UKFPU) to improve the quality of football-related arrests, banning-order and incident data.
• PDCS will continue to work closely with the Crime and Policing Statistics team to modernise the data collection process and improve data quality going forwards.
• We will use R to create Reproducible Analytical Pipelines for some of our statistical publications to streamline and improve the efficiency of our processes.

Other analytical teams

As well as the four statistical teams described above, there are also a number of professional statistical staff who work within other areas of the Home Office, such as data science, or performance reporting and analysis. A selection of these teams is summarised below.

Statistical Transformation

Set up in summer 2020, the Statistical Transformation team will help transform the way statistics and underlying data are produced across the Home Office Analysis and Insight division (HOAI). The team will build relationships with colleagues across all work areas, helping them to modernise their processes, while maintaining high quality outputs.

This will drastically reduce the time spent on producing routine outputs and will result in a better skilled workforce and more robust outputs. This allows statisticians to reallocate their time, while applying their new skills, to focus on new and exciting projects, allowing the Home Office to provide more value and insight to users of its data.

The team will be directly working on a project basis designing new processes alongside the current statistical teams. They will also be responsible for upskilling Home Office staff to ensure they can effectively transform their processes. This will include the continuation of internal training courses and aligning these with cross-government training material. The will team will also provide a community where staff, that are using programming in their work, can ask questions, share ideas and collaborate.

Serious and Organised Crime Research & Analysis (SOCRA)

SOCRA produce cutting-edge analysis to support policy colleagues in tackling Serious and Organised Crime Serious and Organised Crime includes drug supply and county lines, modern slavery and human trafficking, organised illegal immigration, child sexual exploitation, cyber-crime, corruption, money laundering, fraud and other financial crimes.

The team lead the publication of three series of Official and National Statistics on: asset recovery; drug seizures; and referrals to the National Referral Mechanism for potential victims of modern slavery. In addition to producing these statistics, the team are responsible for providing statistical analysis and advice on a wide range of SOC topics, including for briefing for ministers and policy teams, responses to Parliamentary Questions, Freedom of Information requests and ad hoc queries.

Counter-Terrorism Analysis and Insight (CTAI)

CTAI produce cutting-edge analysis to support policy colleagues within the CONTEST and OSCT directorates, working across the four P’s (Prevent, Pursue, Protect and Prepare) in the UK’s Counter-Terrorism Strategy, CONTEST.

One of the analytical products that the unit produces is the annual statistics on ‘Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent programme’, which looks at the age, gender, region and type of concern of those referred, and how these individuals progress through the programme. Analysts in CTAI have been working with policy colleagues and Channel Practitioners to improve the quality of these statistics. The analysts, in collaboration with policy colleagues, have created a data standard inputting manual, to add further data validation to the data recording system and to create an updated training course for Practitioners.

Counter-Extremism Analysis and Insight (CEAI)

CEAI is a multi-disciplinary team of social researchers, intelligence analysts and economists providing expert analysis, research and evaluation on extremism and hate crime.

They work closely with partners within government and draw expertise from outside government, to provide advice, strengthen the evidence base and fill knowledge gaps. Their analysis informs strategic and operational decisions to counter-extremism and tackle hate crime. This is based on a good understanding of the problem and effective interventions, sharing their insight across government.

They are in the process of bringing in data scientists/statisticians to help them collate data, online and offline, to help them measure the scale and impact of extremism and hate crime.

Performance Reporting and Analysis Unit (PRAU)

PRAU produce management information and analysis to support the department in managing performance and risk effectively. The unit’s work is wide ranging from providing strategic analysis to the Department’s senior boards to implementing Vantage - the new Borders, Immigration and Citizenship System’s (BICS) management information system.

Each quarter, PRAU publish the Migration Transparency publication, comprising of statistics which illustrate the performance of the BICS. The publication currently consists of more than 80 data tables (down from over 100) with new tables being considered for inclusion (and existing ones for removal) each quarter through a well-established governance process. In Q1 2020, data was included for the first time on the Windrush Compensation Scheme, which has received much media and parliamentary attention.

Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)

The MAC is an advisory non-departmental public body consisting of labour market and migration experts supported by a secretariat of economists, statisticians, social researchers, operational researchers and policy officials. They published a review of the Shortage Occupation List in September 2020 and will be publishing a new annual report in December 2020.

The team continues to respond to commissions from the Home Secretary, but in addition will be carrying out analysis using linked data sets from across government, evaluation of the new immigration system and will be expanding the team to cover the specific challenges faced by the Devolved Nations.

HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)

HMICFRS assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of police forces and fire & rescue services. The ‘Better Inspections Portfolio’ (BIP) within HMICFRS is a multi-disciplinary analytical team responsible for using data, analysis, knowledge and digital skills to inform and improve inspections through insight and evaluation. HMICFRS uses data it collects directly from forces and services, as well as information provided to the Home Office and other government departments, to produce their analysis via PowerBI dashboards. These dashboards present the data in an accessible format to inspection staff, forces and services; allowing them to drill-down into data of interest. Summary exception pages within these dashboards also provide statistical tests via R, to highlight where forces are outliers compared to others for key data.

Statisticians in the inspectorate are specifically involved in areas such as:

• Data collection from police forces and fire & rescue services
• Crime recording inspections sampling and analysis
• Stop and search audit sampling and analysis
• Child protection risk-based identification using web scraping tools
• Custody inspections analysis
• Responses to supercomplaints
• Developing innovative presentation techniques via PowerBI, following good practice
• Being analytical leads for a few forces and or services

HMICFRS plan to continue raising the profile of analytical teams and strategy to embed analysis in all aspects of HMICFRS, as well as explore how they can use big data, and update their data collections and methodology to enable better understanding and comparison between forces and services.

Collaborative work in the Home Office statistical community and across the Government Statistical Service

As described above, our statisticians regularly work alongside other analysts across the department, as well as with a range of other producers, providers and users of statistics, to develop and produce analysis and outputs.

In addition, there are a range of projects that statisticians from across the Home Office have been working on collectively. These include, but are not limited to:

• Reviewing and updating several pieces of key documentation, such as our Statement of Compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics including the revisions policy and usage of administrative data.
• A new governance structure has been implemented to allow for a more joined up approach on delivering improvements across the profession with a regular board to oversee progress and provide strategic direction.
• Continuing to improve statistical presentation, dissemination and engagement with users, by updating the approach to statistical dissemination. Following the successful role out of a new template in 2018 we have continued to further review our outputs in line with 2018 accessibility legislation and are producing a strategy to develop our publications further.
• Developing a stronger community of analysts and encouraging collaborative working, for example through attendance at the Government Statistical Service (GSS) and Royal Statistical Society (RSS) conferences, hosting quarterly meetings for junior statisticians and holding an annual departmental statistics conference, which includes presentations on a range of work being done across the statistical community within Home Office.
• Home office statisticians also support the wider cross government statistics profession, with representatives on several cross-departmental GSS groups including: Presentation and dissemination group; Quality champions network; Harmonisation champions network and Open data group to name some of our involvement. We continue to strive for engagement with the wider GSS at all levels, and recently hosted a cross department networking event.
• The Chief Statistician as head of profession regularly attends the cross government heads of profession network and disseminates updates to the wider statistical community.

Annex A: List of Home Office statistical releases

			Crime and Policing Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Crime outcomes in England and Wales	Annual	Official Statistics	Details on crime outcomes assigned by the police, the timeliness of assigning outcomes and transferred/cancelled records.
Crime outcomes in England and Wales: data tables	Quarterly	Official Statistics	Details on crime outcomes assigned by the police and transferred/cancelled records.
Police workforce (as at Sept/March), England and Wales	Biannual (normally Jan and July)	National Statistics	Covers the size of the workforce as well as information on: joiners, leavers, diversity, age, sickness, misconduct, etc.
Police powers and procedures, England and Wales	Annual (Oct)	National Statistics	Arrests; stop and search (including Best use); FPNs for motoring offences; detentions under the Mental Health Act 1983; breath test; and other PACE powers (intimate searches, warrants of further detention).
Operations of police powers under the Terrorism Act 2000, Great Britain	Quarterly (Mar, Jun, Sep, Dec)	National Statistics	Terrorism related legislation: - Arrests and outcomes - Court proceedings - Persons in custody - Other (including stop and search)
Hate Crime in England and Wales	Annual	Official Statistics	Number of hate crimes in England and Wales recorded by the police. Also includes Crime Survey England and Wales analysis every third year.
Crime against Businesses statistics, England and Wales	Annual (currently paused for development/Covid-19)	Official Statistics	Statistics from the Commercial Victimisation Survey, which looks at crime against businesses in England and Wales.
Police Officer uplift statistics	Quarterly	Official Statistics	Update on the progress with the recruitment of an additional 20,000 police officers in England and Wales.
Police funding, England and Wales	Annual	Official Statistics	Provides a single source of statistical information on police funding levels.

			Serious Organised Crime Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Drug Seizures in England and Wales	Annual	National Statistics	Covers number of seizures covered by the MDA, by police forces and Border Force in England and Wales.
Asset recovery, England, Wales and Northern Ireland	Annual	Official Statistics	Presents data on asset recovery, using Proceeds of Crime Act Powers and data on the use of Asset Recovery Incentivisation Scheme.
Modern Slavery: National Referral Mechanism and Duty to Notify Statistics UK	Quarterly	Official	Statistics Data on potential victims of modern slavery in the UK that come to the attention of authorised organisations.

			Migration Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Immigration Statistics	Quarterly	National Statistics	Statistics relating to those coming to the UK; extending their stay (temporarily or permanently); gaining citizenship; applying for asylum; and being detained or removed, as well as immigration for work, study and family reasons.
Asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation (published as part of Immigration Statistics)	Annual	Experimental	Statistics relating to asylum claims where sexual orientation was raised as part of the basis for the claim.
Migrant Journey	Annual	Official Statistics	Evidence on the behaviour of migrants entering the UK immigration system for the main routes of entry to the UK and the common pathways through the immigration system that result in settlement.
Statistics being collected under the exit checks programme	Annual	Official Statistics	Data collected on travellers departing and arriving in the UK as part of the Home Office exit checks programme; statistics relating to the compliance of those passengers required to obtain a visa.
EU Settlement Scheme monthly statistics	Monthly	Official Statistics	This report provides high-level monthly statistics (totals to date) on applications made to the EU Settlement Scheme, and applications concluded during the same time period.
EU Settlement Scheme quarterly statistics	Quarterly	Official Statistics	This report provides detailed statistics on applications made to the EU Settlement Scheme, and applications concluded during the same time period.
Grenfell immigration policy statistics	One-off	Official Statistics	This report provides statistics on the number of survivors and relatives considered under the Grenfell immigration policies (published February 2020).
Statistics relating to COVID-19 and the immigration system, May 2020	One-off	Official Statistics	A statistical report showing the impact of Covid-19 on the immigration system, up to April 2020.
Statistics relating to passenger arrivals since the COVID-19 outbreak, August 2020	One-off	Experimental Statistics	This release presents experimental statistics on passenger arrivals throughout 2020, including the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Developments in migration statistics	Annually	Promotional material	Changes introduced by Home Office statisticians to a wide range of UK migration statistics.

			Fire Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Detailed analysis of fires attended by fire and rescue services, England	Annual	National Statistics	Detailed statistics on fires attended by fire and rescue services across England, and fire-related fatalities and non-fatal casualties in those fires.
Detailed analysis of non-fire incidents attended by fire and rescue services, England	Annual	National Statistics	Contains statistics on overall trends, fatalities and non-fatal casualties in non-fire incidents, and further detailed analysis of different categories of non-fire incidents.
Fire and rescue workforce and pensions statistics	Annual	Official Statistics	Focuses on total workforce numbers, workforce diversity and information regarding leavers and joiners; covers both pension fund income and expenditure and firefighters’ pension schemes membership; and includes information on incidents involving attacks on firefighters.
Fire prevention and protection statistics	Annual	Official Statistics	Trends in smoke alarm ownership, fire prevention and protection activities by fire and rescue services, in England.
Fire incidents response times	Annual	Official Statistics	Statistics on trends in average response times to fires attended by fire and rescue services in England.
Fire and rescue incident statistics	Quarterly	National Statistics	Statistics on trends in fires, casualties, false alarms and non-fire incidents attended by fire and rescue services in England.
**Fires in purpose-built flats, England, April 2009 to March 2017	N/A	Official Statistics	An ad hoc statistical release covering fires, casualties and fatalities in dwelling fires attended by Fire and Rescue Services (FRSs) in England, including specific data on purpose-built flats. It also provides information on fire safety audits carried out by FRSs.

			Licensing Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Firearm and shotgun certificates in England and Wales	Annual	National Statistics	Statistics on the number of firearm and shotgun certificates issued by police forces in England and Wales (under the Firearms Acts 1968 to 1997).
Annual Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain	Annual	National Statistics	Statistics relating to scientific procedures performed on living animals in accordance with Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. Includes the number of procedures, types of animals used, and purpose and severity of procedures.
Additional statistics on breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures, Great Britain	N/A	Experimental Statistics	Experimental statistics for 2017, on breeding and genotyping of animals for scientific procedures, not included in the annual statistics.
Alcohol and late night refreshment licensing, England and Wales	Annual	National Statistics	Statistics on authorisations and licensing authority powers under the Licensing Act 2003. Includes premises licences, club premises certificates, personal licences, late night refreshment and 24-hour alcohol licences.

			Public Order Statistics
Release title	Frequency	Designation	Summary
Police use of force, England and Wales	Annual	Experimental Statistics	Statistics covering incidents where police officers have used force. Includes: the tactics used, the reason for force, the outcome, any injuries (to the officers and or the subject) and subject information (age, gender, ethnicity and disability, as perceived by the reporting officer). Also includes statistics on police use of TASER, which were previously published separately.
Police use of firearms, England and Wales	Annual	Official Statistics	Statistics on the number of: firearms operations, incidents in which a firearm was discharged, and armed officers.
Football-related arrests and banning orders, England and Wales	Annual	Official Statistics	Football-related arrests statistics by club, offence type, location and arrest rate per competition and banning orders statistics by club.