The Home Office has launched a consultation regarding a draft code of practice for victim information requests under Chapter 3A of the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (PCSCA 2022). The code establishes guidelines for authorised persons requesting third-party material about victims, including medical records and counselling notes. The consultation, which closes on 1 July 2025, also seeks input on defining counselling services. The framework aims to ensure requests are necessary, proportionate and protect victim privacy.

The Home Office has published a speech by Security Minister Dan Jarvis at the City of London Police Authority Board outlining the government’s response to fraud and cyber-crime. Jarvis said fraud accounted for 44% of all offences in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, with 20% of UK businesses and 14% of charities affected by cyber-crime. The minister confirmed that an expanded Fraud Strategy and a new national cyber strategy are in development, together with legislative reforms intended to protect UK businesses from ransomware.

The Home Office has announced a major overhaul of the Windrush Compensation Scheme (WCS), introducing advance payments of up to 75% of final awards for claimants requesting reviews of their compensation decisions. The changes extend compensation for the first time to lost pension contributions from both occupational and personal pensions and establish priority processing for applicants aged 75 and over and those with serious health conditions. The scheme will now reimburse immigration fees paid by individuals who were unable to prove their lawful status and will account for wage inflation and recognise the difficulties of returning to work after a long period of unemployment in compensation calculations. All measures will be applied retrospectively and are intended to address concerns about excessive bureaucracy delaying compensation payments. The WCS, launched in April 2019, has paid £116m across 3,501 claims as of August 2025, with over 93% of claims receiving final decisions.

The Home Office has published an evaluation of small scale-pilots of two artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to assist in the asylum decision-making process. These were the Asylum Case Summarisation (ACS) tool, which uses AI to generate concise summaries of lengthy interview transcripts, and the Asylum Policy Search (APS) tool, which retrieves and summarises country policy information. Pilots conducted between May and December 2024 indicated that the ACS tool reduced transcript review time by approximately 23 minutes per case, while the APS tool saved about 37 minutes per case. Quality assurance measures using the Home Office’s existing Calibre tool appeared to show that neither tool compromised decision quality. The evaluation states that both tools adhere to the ‘human in the loop’ principle, so that they cannot be used by themselves to make a decision. User feedback was collected through surveys and semi-structured interviews, with some participants noting issues such as the lack of source references and some inaccuracies/missing information in ACS summaries and suggestions for further functionality in the APS tool. Limitations of the tools identified in the evaluation should be addressed before a full rollout, and any further rollout should be continuously monitored in its early stages, and then fully evaluated after deployment.

The Home Office has proposed extending the powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to the Immigration Advice Authority (IAA), enabling the regulator to trace, freeze and seize criminal profits from unauthorised immigration advisers. The proposed extension would allow the IAA to recover illegal earnings independently of police involvement, with recovered funds intended to be reinvested in frontline policing and border security, including the Multi Agency Cash Cell. The changes are expected to be implemented following a consultation running until the end of 2025. The proposals complement measures in the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which would impose fines of up to £15,000 for individuals falsely claiming to be immigration lawyers.

The Home Office has published an update on the International Law Enforcement Alerts Platform (I-LEAP) programme from the Home Office's Permanent Secretary, Matthew Rycroft. The I-LEAP programme has been designed to enhance police and border security by providing digital capabilities to access INTERPOL data in real-time and, in a second phase, reciprocal access to international alert data exchange with international partners. The update notes that the UK has disconnected from the Schengen Information System (SIS II) following its departure from the EU, and has now returned to using the INTERPOL system for systematic exchanges of alerts with law enforcement agencies in the EU. The I-LEAP programme seeks to improve international cooperation through better access and use of INTERPOL data and has been implemented across UK police services. In 2023, access to INTERPOL data on stolen motor vehicles and travel documents will be available and by 2024, real-time access to INTERPOL data will be available to all UK police forces and the UK Border Force. The update states that the programme aligns with the Home Office's public safety priorities and is compliant with INTERPOL data provision to UK law enforcement agencies and that the EU Commission is currently carrying out an assessment and consultation to determine the framework for reciprocal access to security-related information. Phase 1 is due to be completed by April 2024 and Phase 2 by 2027—2028.

The Home Office has published a new form, 'UKF(M)', together with accompanying guidance in relation to an application for registration as a British citizen. This form should be used by persons born on or after 1 July 2006 who were unable to acquire British citizenship as their mother was married to someone other than their biological father.

The Home Office has published an independent research report originally provided to it in 2022, which responds to Recommendation 6 in Wendy Williams' 'Windrush Lessons Learned Review'. This recommendation advised the Home Office to educate its staff about 'the history of the UK and its relationship with the rest of the world, including Britain’s colonial history, the history of inward and outward migration and the history of black Britons'. Publication of the report comes after the First-tier Tribunal (General Regulatory Chamber) decision in James Coombs v Information Commissioner [2024] UKFTT 804 (GRC), which held that its disclosure should not be withheld. The introduction to the report notes that 'it is a research report commissioned by the Home Office in response to a Windrush recommendation but does not represent government policy and the views included in it are those of the author'.

The Home Office has published its annual counter-terrorism disruptive powers report for 2024, providing data and information on the use, regulation and oversight of disruptive powers by government, law enforcement and security agencies to combat terrorism and serious organised crime. The 44-page report covers regulatory enforcement actions and their potential impact on firms, including terrorism financing obligations and how these relate to compliance frameworks. It also outlines the use of powers in disrupting serious organised crime, offering insights into sanction enforcement and anti-money laundering efforts.

The Home Office has published its Fraud Strategy for 2026–2029, focused on disrupting crime, supporting economic resilience and delivering justice. It sets out a system-wide approach to tackling fraud against individuals and businesses, which cost the UK economy £14.4bn in 2023–2024. The Strategy commits over £250m between 2026 and 2029 and is structured around three pillars: disrupt, safeguard and respond—focused on denying criminals access to the tools they exploit, strengthening resilience to prevent fraud before harm occurs, and delivering justice through improved reporting, enhanced victim support and stronger criminal and civil outcomes. Key measures include launching a public-private Online Crime Centre from Q1 2026, expanding the Stop! Think Fraud campaign, operating the new Report Fraud service and introducing a Fraud Victims Charter in 2027. The strategy highlights that fraud accounted for 45% of all crime in England and Wales in the year ending September 2025, with over four million offences estimated during that period. It also includes introduction of a new Fraud Ministerial Accountability Group.

The Home Office has published research and analysis estimating the lifetime net fiscal impact of in-country Article 8 ECHR main applicant grantees from the 2025 cohort. The publication utilizes the Migration Advisory Committee lifetime fiscal impact model alongside Home Office data to estimate an indicative net lifetime fiscal cost of £141,000 per Family and Private Life in-country main applicant grantee, which is used as a proxy for the wider Article 8 cohort.

The Home Office has published non-binding guidance to help organisations strengthen their supply chain resilience against ransomware threats. According to the Home Office, ransomware remains a major global threat, with attackers increasingly targeting supply chains to amplify disruption.