Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration
The Rt Hon Michael Tomlinson KC MP
Biography
Michael Tomlinson was appointed Minister of State at the Home Office on 7 December 2023.
He was Solicitor General between 7 September 2022 and 7 December 2023.
He was previously a Vice Chamberlain of HM Household (Government Whip) between 8 July 2022 and 7 September 2022, and Government Whip (Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury) between 14 February 2020 and 8 July 2022.
Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration
The minister’s responsibilities are:
- Safety of Rwanda Bill
- Illegal Migration Act implementation
- Nationality and Borders Act implementation
- small boats policy
- asylum and modern slavery policy
- upstream and organised immigration crime
- returns and removals
- Migration and Economic Development Partnership
- third country agreements and third country asylum processing
- foreign national offender removal
- detention estate
- Immigration Enforcement
- compliant environment