Our objectives
The UK Border Agency has three strategic objectives:
- we will protect our border and our national interests;
- we will tackle border tax fraud, smuggling and immigration crime;
- we will implement fast and fair decisions.
We also support departmental strategic objectives of the Home Office, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO).
As an executive agency of the Home Office, we support all the Home Office's strategic objectives. We lead on Home Office strategic objective 6 to secure our border and control migration for the benefit of our country.
Our enforcement activities actively contribute to the delivery of departmental strategic objectives belonging to HM Revenue & Customs and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
We lead on HM Revenue & Customs strategic objective 3 and contribute to strategic objectives 1 and 2.
- HM Revenue & Customs strategic objective 1 - improve the extent to which individuals and businesses pay the amount of tax due and receive the credits and payments to which they are entitled.
- HM Revenue & Customs strategic objective 2 - improve customers' experience of HMRC and improve the United Kingdom business environment.
- HM Revenue & Customs strategic objective 3 - reducing the risk of illicit import and export of material which might harm the United Kingdom's physical and social well-being.
We contribute to Foreign and Commonwealth Office strategic objective 4 - support managed migration for Britain.