Ministerial role

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Immigration Compliance and Justice)

Organisations: Home Office and Ministry of Justice

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
  • Human Rights
  • Court & tribunal fees
  • HMCTS reform programme
  • Marriage & Divorce
  • Family Law & Justice (including legal aid)
  • Tribunals (including legal aid)
  • Immigration justice
  • Sentencing
  • Miscarriages of justice
  • Departmental finance​

Previous holders of this role

  1. The Rt Hon Chris Philp MP

    2020 to 2021