Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum

United Kingdom Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Alex Norris since 6 September 2025
Home Office
Style	Illegal Migration Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Minister of State
Reports to	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Home Secretary
Seat	Westminster
Nominator	Prime Minister
Appointer	The Monarch (on the advice of the Prime Minister)
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	10 September 2019
Salary	£115,824 per annum (2022) [1] (including £86,584 MP salary) [2]

The minister of state for Border Security and Asylum ^[3] 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: ^[4]

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
• Spending Review bids
• 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		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister	Home Secretary
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
	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
	Michael Tomlinson		7 December 2023	5 July 2024	Conservative	Sunak	James Cleverly
Minister of State for Border Security and Asylum
	Angela Eagle		8 July 2024	6 September 2025	Labour	Starmer	Cooper
	Alex Norris		6 September 2025	Incumbent	Labour	Starmer	Mahmood

References

1. "Salaries of Members of His Majesty's Government – Financial Year 2022–23" (PDF). 15 December 2022.
2. "Pay and expenses for MPs". parliament.uk. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
3. "Minister of State (Minister for Border Security and Asylum) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
4. "Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts) - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2020-12-05.