Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum

The minister of state for Border Security and Asylum is a senior role in the British Home Office with responsibility for tackling irregular migration.

It was previously known as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration, previously known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts and held in both the British Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. It was last held as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State by Simon Baynes MP who took the office on 8 July 2022 after a cabinet reshuffle.

Responsibilities

The minister previously had the following responsibilities:

For the Home Office:

• access to work, benefits and services
• detention
• returns
• foreign national offenders
• illegal immigration strategy
• overseas development aid
• Immigration Enforcement
• asylum
• resettlement
• casework
• animals (illegal wildlife trade)
• sponsorship of Border Force and immigration enforcement directorates
• supporting Lords Minister on corporate affairs, including the Spending Review and Budget
• COVID-19 impacts on business as usual function of asylum and returns systems, detention and Border Force

For the Ministry of Justice:

• foreign national offenders and removing barriers to removal
• immigration system legal reform
• Spending Review bids
• immigration crime sentencing reform
• detained fast track
• court and tribunal services and reform
• court and tribunal fees
• administrative justice
• supporting the Secretary of State on departmental finance

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