Minister for Security and Immigration

James Brokenshire MP

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Biography

James Brokenshire was appointed Minister for Immigration and Security in February 2014. He has been the Conservative MP for Old Bexley and Sidcup since 2010.

Education

James was educated at Davenant Foundation Grammar School, Loughton, Cambridge Centre for Sixth Form Studies and the University of Exeter, where he studied law. Before entering Parliament he was a partner at a large international law firm where he advised a range of companies, businesses and financial institutions on company law, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.

Career

James was MP for Hornchurch and Rainham from 2005 until the constituency was abolished in 2010. He has campaigned on issues such as crime, asylum and immigration and keeping healthcare facilities at his local hospital.

From 2006 to 2010 he was Shadow Minister for Home Affairs.

From May 2011 to February 2014 he was Minister for Security.

HM Government

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Ministerial department

1. Home Office

Sub-organisation

1. UK Visas and Immigration

Minister for Security and Immigration

The minister is responsible for:

• HM Passport Office, including the General Register Office
• Border Force operations and policy (with IBPD)
  • e-Borders
  • operations (immigration and customs control at the border)
  • Border Force board and transformation
  • rail, maritime and aviation
  • operating mandates
  • European border issues (advanced passenger information and passenger name record)
  • border policing command
  • automation
• immigration operations and policy (UK Visas and Immigration and Immigration Enforcement and IBPD)
  • managed migration, including the net migration target
  • nationality
  • asylum
  • enforcement
  • removals
  • operational systems
  • detention and pre-departure accommodation
  • special cases
  • exclusion orders
  • criminal casework (foreign national offenders)
  • refugee integration
  • appeals and litigation
  • visa policy (including border security assessment)
  • international operations and visas
  • strategy and intelligence
  • freedom of information requests
  • European migration and asylum issues
  • immigration transformation
  • relations with Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Migration Directorate
• extradition, mutual legal assistance and judicial co-operation
• parliamentary champion, small and medium-sized enterprises champion

The minister is responsible for:

• international counter-terrorism
• counter-terrorism operations
• Pursue, including TPIMs and DWA policy
• counter-terrorism policing, including section 26 authorisations
• communications capabilities, including communications data
• Protect, including critical national infrastructure
• Olympic legacy and the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• counter-terrorism science and technology, including chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear and explosive
• space security
• maritime security
• Guantanamo detainees and civil litigation
• Prevent, including extremism task force and RICU
• mass fatalities, civil contingencies, interoperability
• aviation security
• proscription
• Prepare
• political and domestic extremism
• terrorist finance
• Northern Ireland
• special cases, including exclusions, deprivations, national security deportations

More about this role

Previous roles in government

1. Minister for Security

   • 2010 to 2014

2. Minister of State for Immigration

   • 2014 to 2014

Announcements

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1. Smuggling: Women jailed for smuggling endangered Iguanas

   • 4 April 2014
   • News story

2. Syria: UK helps vulnerable refugees

   • 25 March 2014
   • News story

3. Vulnerable persons relocation scheme for Syrian nationals

   • 25 March 2014
   • Statement to Parliament

4. Reduction in passport fees for UK citizens overseas

   • 13 March 2014
   • Statement to Parliament

5. Statement of changes in immigration rules

   • 13 March 2014
   • Statement to Parliament

6. Immigration: Businesses will benefit from help to recruit internationally

   • 13 March 2014
   • News story

7. Immigration: building a more sustainable system

   • 6 March 2014
   • News story

8. Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill: Schedule 7

   • 6 March 2014
   • Statement to Parliament

9. Non EU migration continues to fall

   • 27 February 2014
   • News story

10. Visa regulations: revised table

    • 25 February 2014
    • Statement to Parliament

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