1. The Home Office worked closely with law enforcement partners to prepare for the scheme and clear processes are in place to ensure compliance. The objectives of FIRS are to encourage transparency, deter harmful covert state threat activity and increase the opportunity for earlier disruptions. The Government will monitor progress against these objectives, and will also consider the scheme’s impact in a range of scenarios including responding to activity that constitutes TNR. 2. Additionally, the Government will publish an annual report which will, among other things, make clear the number of registrations under the scheme and the number of persons charged and convicted of offences of non-compliance.