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Home office uk wiki. Gervais also stars in the series playing the central. Created written and directed by ricky gervais and stephen merchant and produced by ash atalla the programme follows the day to day lives of office employees in the slough branch of the fictional wernham hogg paper company. The war office was a department of the british government responsible for the administration of the british army between 1857 and 1964 when its functions were transferred to the ministry of defence it was equivalent to the admiralty responsible for the royal navy and the much later air ministry which oversaw the royal air force the name war office is also given to the former home of. The home office retains a variety of functions that have not found a home elsewhere and sit oddly with the main law and order focus of the department such as regulation of british summer time.
Uk visas and immigration is responsible for making millions of decisions every year about who has the right to visit or stay in the country with a firm emphasis on national security and a culture. As such the home office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the united kingdom. The identity and passport service was established on 1 april 2006 following the passing of the identity cards act 2006 which merged the uk passport service with the home office s identity cards programme to form the new executive agency. It was formed in 2013 from the section of the uk border agency that had administered the visa system.
The home office ho is a ministerial department of her majesty s government of the united kingdom responsible for immigration security and law and order as such it is responsible for policing in england and wales fire and rescue services in england and visas and immigration and the security service mi5 it is also in charge of government policy on security related issues such as drugs. Centre for applied science and technology d her majesty s passport office d і uk visas and immigration d. On 7 april 2012 hacktivist group anonymous temporarily took down the uk home office website. The office is a british television mockumentary sitcom first broadcast in the uk on bbc two on 9 july 2001.
In 2007 the ninety british diplomatic missions that issued passports were consolidated into seven regional passport processing centres rppcs based in. Uk visas and immigration ukvi is a division of the home office responsible for the united kingdom s visa system. The agency s executive agency status was removed and internally it was split with one division responsible for the visa system and the other for immigration enforcement.