Ministerial role
Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border
Organisations:
Home Office
Responsibilities
The ministers responsibilities are:
- net migration
- UK points-based system
- simplifying the immigration system and immigration rules
- current and future visa policy
- nationality
- Windrush
- Home Office interests in free trade
- Future Borders and Immigration System and Border Strategy 2025
- agreements
- UK Visas and Immigration, HM Passport Office and EU Settlement Scheme
- asylum decision making (backlog)
- accommodation (closing hotels)
- Border Force operations
- 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 British Nationals (Overseas)
- Gaza and Israel
Previous holders of this role
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Tom Pursglove
2023 to 2024