# Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum

The minister of state for Border Security and Asylum is a senior role in the British Home Office with responsibility for tackling irregular migration.
It was previously known as the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration, previously known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts and held in both the British Home Office and the Ministry of Justice. It was last held as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State by Simon Baynes MP who took the office on 8 July 2022 after a cabinet reshuffle.

## Responsibilities

The minister previously had the following responsibilities:
For the Home Office:
* access to work, benefits and services
* detention
* returns
* foreign national offenders
* illegal immigration strategy
* overseas development aid
* Immigration Enforcement
* asylum
* resettlement
* casework
* animals (illegal wildlife trade)
* sponsorship of Border Force and immigration enforcement directorates
* supporting Lords Minister on corporate affairs, including the Spending Review and Budget
* COVID-19 impacts on business as usual function of asylum and returns systems, detention and Border Force
For the Ministry of Justice:
* foreign national offenders and removing barriers to removal
* immigration system legal reform
* joint Spending Review bids (working with Kit Malthouse)
* immigration crime sentencing reform
* detained fast track
* court and tribunal services and reform
* court and tribunal fees
* administrative justice
* supporting the Secretary of State on departmental finance

## List of officeholders

| Name | Name | Portrait | Term of office | Term of office | Political party | Prime Minister | Home Secretary |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts | |
| | Chris Philp | | 10 September 2019 | 16 September 2021 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel |
| | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration |
| | Tom Pursglove | | 17 September 2021 | 7 July 2022 | Conservative | Johnson | Patel |
| | Simon Baynes | | 8 July 2022 | 8 September 2022 | Conservative | Johnson Truss | Patel Braverman |
| Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | Role re-formed out of Minister of State for Immigration Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration | |
| | Michael Tomlinson | | 7 December 2023 | 5 July 2024 | Conservative | Sunak | James Cleverly |
| Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum | |
| | Angela Eagle | | 8 July 2024 | Incumbent | Labour | Starmer | Cooper |