Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities are:

• Border Security Command
• asylum policy
• asylum accommodation
• returns and removals
• irregular migration policy
• organised immigration crime
• foreign national offenders
• Immigration Enforcement
• small boat arrivals

Previous holders of this role

1. Dame Angela Eagle DBE MP

   2024 to 2025

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• Crackdown on legal visa abuse stems surge in asylum claims
  • 03 September 2025
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• Hundreds arrested in illegal delivery rider shut down  
  • 09 August 2025
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• Suspected people smuggling gang taken down in nationwide strikes
  • 03 July 2025
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• Delivery firms to bolster rider security checks to stop illegal working
  • 30 June 2025
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• Illegal working enforcement soars in drive to strengthen border security
  • 07 June 2025
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• Over 30 arrests made in Northern Ireland people smuggler crackdown
  • 23 May 2025
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• New powers to root out fake ‘lawyers’ giving rogue asylum advice
  • 27 April 2025
  • News story
• Immigration offenders returned on flight to Nigeria and Ghana
  • 25 April 2025
  • News story
• Declaration of intent between the UK, Bulgaria and Romania on organised immigration crime
  • 07 April 2025
  • Correspondence
• Zalo campaign to rebut people smugglers’ lies in Vietnam
  • 31 March 2025
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