Concordat between the Home Office and the Scottish Executive

Joint working will be particularly relevant in the following cases and could usefully be covered by working level agreements:

the planning and implementation of responses to civil and other emergencies, where such emergencies affect, or may affect, the whole of Britain;
dispute resolution and pay determination in the Prison Services;
regulation of relevant public sector pension schemes;
changes affecting the policy or procedures governing the release of life or determinate sentence prisoners;
the cross border transfer of prisoners, offenders subject to supervision and restricted patients;
other cross border issues relating to mutual police assistance and powers of arrest and search;
developing legislation on intrusive investigative techniques;
mutual enforcement of confiscation orders under respective Orders in Council;
the statutory framework governing the enforcement of domestic and overseas confiscation and forfeiture orders;
enforcement of confiscation orders under international agreements in Scottish cases;
reserved matters which are the subject of executive devolution (listed in Annex B);
Ministerial responsibility for cross-border public authorities (listed at Annex D); and
reserved matters in which the Scottish Executive has an interest including:
- EU business;
- international matters affecting justice and home affairs;
- prevention of terrorism;
- race equality;
- data protection;
- the continued operation of the Joint Strategic Committees of the Central Fire Brigades Advisory Councils; and
- arrangements for the dispersal of asylum seekers and the designation of reception zones.

The Scottish Government