Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
Alex Norris MP
Biography
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.
Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum)
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