Kevin Foster MP
Biography
Kevin Foster was Minster of State at the Department for Transport from 7 September 2022 to 26 October 2022.
Kevin Foster was first elected for the Torbay constituency in May 2015.
Mr Foster served on the Public Accounts Committee and the Backbench Business Committee from 2015 to 2017. He has also been a Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Department of Communities and Local Government (now the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities) and, latterly, the Cabinet Office.
Mr Foster was born in Plymouth and grew up in South Devon. Before entering Parliament, he trained in the legal profession, and was Deputy Leader of Coventry Council.
Mr Foster was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Future Borders and Immigration) on 14 February 2020.
He was previously appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales and Assistant Government Whip in April 2019. He was also acting as Minister for the Constitution in the Cabinet Office until October 2019. He was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Immigration at the Home Office on 16 December 2019.
Previous roles in government
- Minister of State
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Safe and Legal Migration)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Immigration)
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
- Interim Parliamentary Secretary (Minister for the Constitution)
- Assistant Government Whip
- Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Announcements
Subscriptions
- Faster accommodation moves for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
- Scale-up visa will propel high-growth businesses
- Independent report on Windrush Compensation Scheme
- Further push to help unaccompanied asylum seeking children
- New digital identity checking for landlords and employers to tackle immigration abuse
- Industry given certainty around seasonal workers but told to focus on domestic workforce
- Points-based immigration system: delivering on people’s priorities
- National Transfer Scheme to become mandatory for all local authorities
- Further boost for people applying for EU Settlement Scheme
- Fast-track routes for gifted stars to come to the UK