Ministerial role

Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The minister’s responsibilities are:

  • Safety of Rwanda Bill
  • Illegal Migration Act implementation
  • Nationality and Borders Act implementation
  • small boats policy
  • asylum and modern slavery policy
  • upstream and organised immigration crime
  • returns and removals
  • Migration and Economic Development Partnership
  • third country agreements and third country asylum processing
  • foreign national offender removal
  • detention estate
  • Immigration Enforcement
  • compliant environment

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC

    2023 to 2024