Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)

Organisations: Home Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities are:

• Border Security Command: reducing small boat arrivals and organised immigration crime
• reducing the asylum caseload, exiting hotels and reducing the supported population
• Immigration Enforcement: Increasing returns (including FNOs), immigration detention estate expansion, illegal working
• asylum, illegal migration and returns policy, safe and legal policy and refugee resettlement policy
• reducing net migration: legal migration policy
• tackling visa abuse
• innovative solutions
• Immigration White Paper implementation
• European Entry Exit System
• modern slavery policy as it relates to immigration status

Previous holders of this role

1. The Rt Hon Alex Norris MP

   2025 to 2026

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  • 08 July 2026
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  • 30 June 2026
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  • 15 April 2026
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  • 26 March 2026
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  • 19 March 2026
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  • 04 December 2025
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  • 12 October 2025
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