Minister of State for Immigration
| United Kingdom Minister of State for Immigration | |
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Home Office UK Visas and Immigration | |
| Style |
The Right Honourable (Formal prefix) Immigration Minister (Informal) |
| Member of |
British Cabinet Privy Council |
| Reports to | The Home Secretary |
| Seat | Westminster, London |
| Appointer |
The British Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister |
| Term length | No fix |
| Inaugural holder | The Rt Hon. Timothy Raison |
| Formation | 4 May 1979 |
| Website | gov.uk |
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The Minister of State for Immigration is a Minister of State in the Home Office of the Government of the United Kingdom. As of 11 June 2017, the role is currently held by former Policing Minister, Brandon Lewis MP.
Since June 2017, the role has attended cabinet.
Responsibilities
The minister is responsible for:
- immigration and border policy (including non-EU migration to the UK; family reunion; border security; detention and removal policy; asylum policy; post-Brexit immigration policy for EU nationals)
- foreign national offenders (management in immigration detention and deportation to country of origin)
- resettlement policy (including the operation of Home Office resettlement programmes: Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme; Gateway; Mandate; and Vulnerable Children’s Resettlement Scheme)
- implementation of the Immigration Act 2016
- UK Visas and Immigration
- Immigration Enforcement
- Border Force
- HM Passport Office
- Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
- Home Office immigration transparency data
- net migration statistics
Ministers of State for Immigration
| Name | Portrait | Term of office | Political party | Notes | ||
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| Tim Raison | 6 May 1979 | 6 January 1983 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| David Waddington | 6 January 1983 | 13 June 1987 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| Tim Renton | 13 June 1987 | 25 July 1989 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| Peter Lloyd | 25 July 1989 | 15 April 1992 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| Charles Wardle | 15 April 1992 | 20 July 1994 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| Emily Blatch | 20 July 1994 | 2 May 1997 | Conservative | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department | ||
| Michael O'Brien |  |
5 May 1997 | 28 July 1999 | Labour | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration | |
| Barbara Roche | 28 July 1999 | 11 June 2001 | Labour | Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration | ||
| Lord Rooker |  |
11 June 2001 | 29 May 2002 | Labour | ||
| Beverley Hughes |  |
29 May 2002 | 1 April 2004 | Labour | Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Community Cohesion (2002-2003) Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism (2003-2004) [1] Resigned over illegal immigration visa scandal[2] | |
| Des Browne |  |
1 April 2004 | 6 May 2005 | Labour | Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality[3] | |
| Tony McNulty |  |
16 May 2005 | 23 May 2006 | Labour | Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality[4] | |
| Liam Byrne | 23 May 2006 | 3 October 2008 | Labour | Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality (2006-2007) Minister of State for Borders and Immigration (2007-2008)[5] | ||
| Phil Woolas | 3 October 2008 | 11 May 2010 | Labour | Minister of State for Borders and Immigration | ||
| Damian Green |  |
13 May 2010 | 4 September 2012 | Conservative | Minister of State for Immigration[6][7] | |
| Mark Harper |  |
4 September 2012 | 8 February 2014 | Conservative | Minister of State for Immigration | |
| James Brokenshire |  |
8 February 2014 | 14 July 2016 | Conservative | Minister for Security and Immigration | |
| Robert Goodwill |  |
16 July 2016 | 11 June 2017 | Conservative | Minister of State for Immigration | |
| Brandon Lewis |  |
11 June 2017 | Incumbent | Conservative | Minister of State for Immigration
Member of Cabinet | |
References
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- ↑ Hughes resigns over visa scam row
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- ↑ Page 40"Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-02-03.
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