Locations: London
Homepage: justice.gov.uk

Departments

• Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
• Department for Education
• Department for Transport
• Department for Work and Pensions
• Department of Health
• Export Credits Guarantee Department
• Food Standards Agency
• HM Revenue & Customs
• Home Office
• Ministry of Justice
• Office for National Statistics

Ministry of Justice

Overview

The Home Office buildings, 2 Marsham Street, London.

The Office for Criminal Justice Reform and the National Offender Management Service are situated in the Fry Building on this site

The Ministry of Justice was established on the 9th May 2007. It brought together the former responsibilities of the Department for Constitutional Affairs with the National Offender Management Service from the Home Office and the trilateral Office for Criminal Justice Reform.

 The new department has a wide-ranging remit with major delivery responsibilities for prisons and probation, the courts and tribunals, legal aid and more, as well as important policy responsibilities ranging from constitutional reform and devolution, democracy and human rights to the justice system.

Operational Research in the Ministry of Justice

Operational Research helps to provide the evidence, research and analysis required for the range of issues relevant to management and policy within the Ministry of Justice. Projects include:

• Developing discrete event simulation models of local criminal justice processes
• Producing projections for the prison population and forecasting demand for prison & probation services
• Reporting the performance for key targets across the Criminal Justice System
• Conducting audits of Law Society case files
• Modelling the impact of counter-terrorism cases on court workload
• Modelling Legal Aid expenditure

What to Expect

The MoJ Operational Research community comprises 25 specialists. We work in a number of distinct analytical teams alongside economists, social researchers and statisticians in the following areas:

• The National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
• The Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR)
• Ministry of Justice (former Department for Constitutional Affairs)
• Sentencing Guidelines
• The Office of the Legal Services Complaints Commissioner (OLSCC)

The majority of staff are based in 2 Marsham Street, London, with a smaller number in Selborne House & Great George Street, London and West Riding House, Leeds.