Your branch reps

All of the following representatives are volunteers. None are paid a wage by PCS to carry out union activities, including picket duty, negotiating with management or representing members in personal cases and at Employment Tribunals, and many undertake work on members' behalf in their own time. Reps take up post annually with effect from the end of the branch AGM.

PCS Home Office Merseyside Branch currently has members at The Capital Building, 101 Old Hall Street (not Passport Office staff), Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Seaforth Docks, Redgrave Court and HMP Risley. 

Find out here what work your reps undertake on your behalf. 

President: Karen Bolger

Vice President: Kris Rowe

Secretary: Phil Mount

Assistant Secretary: Jacqui Halsall-Hughes

Organiser: Mark Spencer-Scragg

Assistant Organiser: Sophie Ford

Treasurer: Andy Nixon

Committee Members: Chris Smith, Dean Barron, Clare Kay, Philip Brightmore, Simon Porter,, Andrew Mabbs, Emma Mooney, Chris Helm, Paul Jobson, Lindsay Melia, Ben Ramsdale, John Lonergan, Ceri Scanlon

Auditors: 2 vacancies

Health & Safety: Dean Barron, Karen Bolger

Advocates Liaison: 

Union Learning: Paul Jobson

Asylum and Human Rights  

Clare Kay, Chris Helm, Phil Mount, Dean Barron, Ben Ramsdale 

COS

Chris Smith, Phil Brightmore

Borders & Enforcement 

Border Force 

Simon Porter, Andy Mabbs 

Immigration Enforcement 

John Lonergan

Visas, Status and Information Services 

Euro, Settlement & BN(O)

Kris Rowe, Andrew Nixon, Mark Spencer-Scragg

International, Visit, Work and Study Visas & Windrush 

Emma Mooney

Passports, Citizenship and Civil registration 

Nationality 

Jacqui Halsall-Hughes, Phil Mount 

If your work area is not specified above you can contact any rep or email us here. 

Branch members with other PCS responsibilities: Phil Mount, Jacqui Halsall-Hughes, Simon Porter, Andy Mabbs, Paul Jobson (PCS Home Office Group Executive Committee)   

The following reps have left the BEC since the last AGM:

Elizabeth Robinson, Julie Coughlin, Kieron Worsell, Appi Kovoory, Martin Snape

Find out here what work your reps undertake on behalf of the branch.

(co) = co-opted under branch rule 23(f)

PCS Home Office Group Executive Committee (GEC)

The PCS Home Office Group is comprised of all those union members who are either employees of, or agency workers/contractors undertaking work for:

• Home Office (eg. Casework, Border Force, Enforcement)

• Passport Office (HMPO)

• Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

• Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (GLAA)

• Security Industry Authority (SIA)

• Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner (OISC) 

and there are Trade Union recognition agreements with the following outsourced companies:

• Sopra Steria - HMPO Contract

• Tata Consultancy Services Limited - DBS Contract

The GEC are responsible fo dealing with issues at departmental level that, in the main, cut across local branch boundaries. For example if an issue arises that only affects PCS members in a part of our branch, but nowhere else in the Home Office, it would be picked up by your local branch representatives (above). If the issue affects members in, say, Liverpool, Sheffield and Croydon then it would be handled by the GEC.