Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration Compliance and Courts
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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, is a junior role in both the British Home Office and the
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Simon Baynes Simon Robert Maurice Baynes (born 21 April 1960) is a British Conservative politician who served as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration from July to September 2022. He was elected as the Member o ...
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Responsibilities

The minister has 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
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) * 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

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Tom Pursglove Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (born 5 November 1988) is a British politician serving as Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work. He served as Minister of State for Immigration from September 2022 to October 2022. He served as ...
(17 September 2021 to 7 July 2022)


References

{{Home Office (United Kingdom) Home Office (United Kingdom) Lists of government ministers of the United Kingdom Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom) Immigration ministers Ministerial offices in the United Kingdom