Ministerial role
Minister of State (Minister for Immigration)
Organisations:
Home Office
Responsibilities
The Minister’s responsibilities are:
Legal migration
- net migration
- UK points-based system
- simplifying the immigration system and immigration rules
- current and future visa policy
- nationality
- Windrush
- FBIS and Border Strategy 2025
- Border Force operations
- Home Office interests in free trade agreements
- Safe and legal routes and resettlement, including:
- Ukraine Family Scheme
- Homes for Ukraine Scheme
- Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme
- Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy
- Hong Kong BN(O)
Illegal migration and asylum
- illegal migration strategy and New Plan for Immigration oversight
- Nationality and Borders Act part 2
- small boats policy (ops with MoD)
- asylum decision making and accommodation
- returns and removals, including third country agreements
- detention estate
- foreign national offenders
- Immigration Enforcement
- compliant environment
- organised immigration crime (OIC)
- MEDP and future TCAP deals
- modern slavery
Previous holders of this role
-
The Rt Hon Robert Jenrick MP
2022 to 2023
-
Tom Pursglove
2022 to 2022