Ministerial role
Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
Organisations:
Home Office
Current role holder:
Alex Norris MP
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
Current role holder
Alex Norris MP
Alex Norris was apppointed Minister of State at the Home Office on 6 September 2025.
He was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government between 9 July 2024 and 6 September 2025.
He has been the MP for Nottingham North and Kimberley (and its predecessor Nottingham North) since June 2017.