Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship^[3] is a ministerial position in the Home Office of the Government of the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship
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Incumbent Seema Malhotra since 9 July 2024
Home Office UK Visas and Immigration
Style	Migration Minister (informal) The Right Honourable (within the UK and Commonwealth)
Type	Minister of the Crown
Status	Minister of State
Member of	His Majesty's Government
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	6 May 1979
First holder	Tim Raison
Salary	£115,824 per annum (2022)[1] (including £86,584 MP salary)[2]
Website	Official website

From June 2017 to July 2019 and October 2022 to December 2023, the minister attended cabinet meetings as Minister of State for Immigration and was seen as one of the most senior Minister of State positions in the Government.

The role was known as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future Borders and Immigration from 2020 to 2021 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration from 2021 to 2022.

Following the resignation of Robert Jenrick in December 2023, the position was split into two roles: the Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration and the Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border.

Responsibilities

As of 2022 the minister has responsibility for legal migration, illegal migration and asylum,^[4] including:

• UK points-based system
• Simplifying the immigration system and immigration rules
• Current and future visa system
• Asylum
• Net migration
• EU Settlement Scheme
• Nationality
• Windrush
• Modern slavery

List of ministers

Name		Portrait	Term of office		Political party	Prime Minister	Notes
Minister of State for the Home Office
	Tim Raison		6 May 1979	6 January 1983	Conservative	Margaret Thatcher	Minister of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department
	David Waddington		6 January 1983	13 June 1987
	Tim Renton		13 June 1987	25 July 1989
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Office
	Peter Lloyd		25 July 1989	28 November 1990	Conservative	Margaret Thatcher	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department
			28 November 1990	15 April 1992		John Major
	Charles Wardle		15 April 1992	20 July 1994
Minister of State for the Home Office
	The Baroness Blatch		20 July 1994	2 May 1997	Conservative	John Major	Minister of State with responsibility for the Immigration and Nationality Department
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration
	Michael O'Brien		5 May 1997	8 June 2001	Labour	Tony Blair
Minister of State for Asylum and Immigration
	Barbara Roche		28 July 1999	11 June 2001	Labour	Tony Blair
	The Lord Rooker		11 June 2001	29 May 2002
Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Community Cohesion
	Beverley Hughes		29 May 2002	13 June 2003	Labour	Tony Blair
Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Counter-Terrorism[5]
	Beverley Hughes		13 June 2003	1 April 2004	Labour	Tony Blair	Resigned over illegal immigration visa scandal[6]
Minister of State for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality[7][8]
	Des Browne		1 April 2004	6 May 2005	Labour	Tony Blair
	Tony McNulty		16 May 2005	23 May 2006
Minister of State for Citizenship, Immigration and Nationality
	Liam Byrne		23 May 2006	27 June 2007	Labour	Tony Blair
Minister of State for Borders and Immigration[5][9]
	Liam Byrne		27 June 2007	3 October 2008	Labour	Gordon Brown
	Phil Woolas		3 October 2008	11 May 2010
Minister of State for Immigration[10][11]
	Damian Green		13 May 2010	4 September 2012	Conservative	David Cameron
	Mark Harper		4 September 2012	8 February 2014
Minister of State for Security and Immigration
	James Brokenshire		8 February 2014	14 July 2016	Conservative	David Cameron
Minister of State for Immigration
	Robert Goodwill		16 July 2016	11 June 2017	Conservative	Theresa May
	Brandon Lewis		11 June 2017	8 January 2018			Attended meetings of the Cabinet[12]
	Caroline Nokes		8 January 2018	24 July 2019			Attended meetings of the Cabinet
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Immigration[13]
	Seema Kennedy		26 July 2019	16 December 2019	Conservative	Boris Johnson
	Kevin Foster		16 December 2019	14 February 2020
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Future Borders and Immigration (Until December 2021)[14] Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safe and Legal Migration (From December 2021)[15]
	Kevin Foster		14 February 2020	7 September 2022	Conservative	Boris Johnson
Minister of State for Immigration[4]
	Tom Pursglove		7 September 2022	25 October 2022	Conservative	Liz Truss
	Robert Jenrick		25 October 2022	6 December 2023	Conservative	Rishi Sunak	Attended meetings of the Cabinet
Role split with new Minister of State for Countering Illegal Migration Minister of State for Legal Migration and the Border
	Tom Pursglove		7 December 2023	5 July 2024	Conservative	Rishi Sunak
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Migration and Citizenship
	Seema Malhotra		9 July 2024	Incumbent	Labour	Keir Starmer