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Does the home office work?

It's been a tricky week of headlines for the department.

The week opened with a home office under Tack from David Neal, a former independent inspector

who had been abruptly fired recently. And then the long-awaited inquiry into Wayne Cousins, the

Met police officer who killed Sarah Everard was released, revealing institutional

failings. And finally at the end of the week it was revealed that the Romanda flight scheme will cost over half a billion pounds for the first 300 migrants who arrive.

I'm Cindy U and on this special Saturday shots I'm joined by James Hill and Samushah, Director of Crackon Strategy Limited, who was previously a special advisor at the Home Office under Sadajavid.

James is a part of the problem just that the home office has too many briefs?

You know, in just that introduction alone in this week's headlines, we've had immigration, crime,

national security, it's just trying to do too much, isn't it?

Well that certainly seems to be the way and it's always been in charge with the kind of really difficult issues with the state law and order ever since

its creation in the 1780s onwards and of course it used to be much bigger you know the words not fit for purpose could be hung like an albatross around the neck of the department,

and those are the words used by John Reed in 2006 when he split up the home office from the Ministry of Justice.

But really it's some of the most difficult issues the government has to get to grips with.

Some of the responsibilities that's had historically, such as the traditional rule that the

Home Secretary had to witness the birth of a future monarch that's now massively been scrapped,

but other things have been added.

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