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United Kingdom
Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent
Angela Eagle
since 8 July 2024
Home Office
StyleIllegal Migration Minister
(informal)
The Right Honourable
(within the UK and Commonwealth)
TypeMinister of the Crown
StatusMinister of State
Member of
Reports to
SeatWestminster
NominatorPrime Minister
AppointerThe Monarch
(on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term lengthAt His Majesty's pleasure
Formation10 September 2019
Salary£115,824 per annum (2022)[1]
(including £86,584 MP salary)[2]

The minister of state for Border Security and Asylum[3] 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:[4]

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
  • joint Spending Review bids (working with Kit Malthouse)
  • 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

List of officeholders

Name Portrait Term of office Political party Prime Minister Home Secretary
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts
Chris Philp 10 September 2019 16 September 2021 Conservative Johnson Patel
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration
Tom Pursglove 17 September 2021 7 July 2022 Conservative Johnson Patel
Simon Baynes 8 July 2022 8 September 2022 Conservative Johnson

Truss

Patel

Braverman

Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration
Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration
Michael Tomlinson 7 December 2023 5 July 2024 Conservative Sunak James Cleverly
Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum
Angela Eagle 8 July 2024 Incumbent Labour Starmer Cooper

References

  1. ^ "Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23" (PDF). 15 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  4. ^ "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister_of_State_for_Border_Security_and_Asylum