Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice and Tackling Illegal Migration
Royal Arms of His Majesty's Government
Incumbent Simon Baynes since 8 July 2022
Home Office
Style	Minister
Appointer	The Monarch on advice of the Prime Minister
Term length	At His Majesty's pleasure
Formation	Late 2010s
First holder	Chris Philp
Website	www.gov.uk/government/ministers/parliamentary-under-secretary-of-state--122

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 Ministry of Justice. It is currently held by Simon Baynes MP who took the office on 8 July 2022 after the cabinet reshuffle.

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 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

• Chris Philp (10 September 2019 to 16 September 2021)
• Tom Pursglove (17 September 2021 to 7 July 2022)