To deliver on these, Policy and Resources has now published proposals to be debated in October.
The Policy Letter includes a breakdown of the work each committee will be expected to prioritise for the remainder of this term – if approved – and was developed through a collaborative approach with each committee.
President of Home Affairs, Deputy Rob Prow, has also offered his support for the work being done to re-set the GWP.
“The Committee for Home Affairs understands and supports the need to re-set the government work plan. Furthermore this is an extremely difficult challenge especially in the absence of the failure of the States to firm up a sustainable fiscal policy, which underpins the delivery of a work plan. This prioritisation incurs very difficult choices but these must be made. This is why Committee work plans are important to the process and Home Affairs has worked closely with P&R in that regard.
“Home Affairs has done a huge amount of work this term regarding responding to maintaining our international standards around AML/CFT/ and WMD proliferation, for which we a due to be evaluated by Moneyval and responding to the effects of Brexit, particularly on goods and Immigration, (including the Population Management Review – PIPR).”
Pictured: Deputy Prow said difficult choices must be made.
Deputy Prow continued: “We have also progressed a Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence strategy this term and started to deliver on it by setting up a Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) and progressing important DASV legislation through the Assembly. Work is also ongoing on going in the areas of Cyber and telecoms security in order to also fulfil our international responsibilities.”
Despite this, he told Express that there is an enormous amount of further work to be done.
“Home Affairs needs to do, not only to complete the GWP programme but to meet the challenges of the coming years. We all have to be mindful that the principal Committees have to deliver business as usual (BAU) services on top of the resource and expenditure pressures arising out of the GWP – and all to be undertaken in an environment of public expenditure savings cuts.
“In Home Affairs that entails the Statutory Services, Criminal Justice, Offender management and the emergency services all of which need to be developed in a modern and compassionate society. This also includes monitoring and updating legislation. Home Affairs infrastructure is also creaking especially in Law Enforcement and at some stage in future GWP iterations, this will need considerable investment.”