Our performance

This page provides information on the commitments we made in the Home Office business plan. The indicators on this page are just a part of the data we gather and publish.

The transparency section of the Home Office business plan lists the Border Force, Visas and Immigration and Immigration Law Enforcement's key input and impact indicators, and our business plan covers them in more detail. Input indicators show the full costs of these activities. Impact indicators measure the extent to which policies and activities are having the effect we intend.

Information on passenger clearance standards, costs per passenger at the border and annual level of tax revenue protected for 2011-12 is available on the Border Force GOV.UK web page under the section "our Statistics".

Input indicators

• Cost per passenger processed at the border
• Cost per decision for all permanent and temporary migration applications.

Impact indicators

• Net migration to the UK (information published on the Office for National Statistics website)
• Annual level of tax revenue that is protected through detecting goods where excise duty has not been declared
• Clearance of passengers at the border within published standards
• Percentage of migration applications decided within published standards
• Percentage of asylum applications concluded in one year.

The Home Office quarterly immigration statistics release provides further detailed information on our work and people subject to immigration control. The latest release, Immigration Statistics: January-March 2013 covers the period up to the end of March 2013, together with earlier data.

Definitions

The Home Office business plan contains technical definitions for the input and impact indicators. You can download the business plan from the right side of this page.

Other performance indicators

We have also published data on other key performance indicators that are not included in the Home Office business plan.

• Further key data on the asylum system
• Percentage of complaints responded to within service standard
• Percentage of MPs' letters responded to within service standard
• Controlled archive
• Foreign national offenders
• Drug seizures
• Family returns process
• Life in the UK tests

Why we publish this information

We publish performance information as part of the government's commitment to transparency.

The government aims to:

• enable the public to hold politicians and public bodies to account;
• reduce the deficit and deliver better value for money in public spending; and
• realise significant economic benefits by enabling businesses and non-profit organisations to build innovative applications and websites using public data.