Found: As the government brings the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to Parliament, we encourage

Found: border security by launching the new Border Security Command and introducing the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: v The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, available at: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/

Found: 31 January 2025 Dear Lord Alton, I am writing to inform you that the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: The NFU believes the forthcoming “Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill” which is aimed at protecting

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what estimate his Department has made of the number of irregular migrants that will enter the UK via the English Channel in each of the next five years following the passing of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

An impact assessment of the Bill is published at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/border-security-asylum-and-immigration-bill-2025-impact-assessment.

This includes analysis of how the new powers in the Bill could achieve the intended impacts, including by leading to more effective interventions in disrupting and prosecuting those who seek to facilitate irregular migration to the UK. The Home Office will continue to monitor and evaluate measures within the Bill once they have been implemented, subject to Parliament’s approval.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to clause eight of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, which civil servants would be eligible to serve as the Interim Border Security Commander.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The Border Security Command (BSC) was established on 5 July 2024 and Martin Hewitt CBE QPM took on the role of Border Security Commander on 7 October 2024. The BSC’s first priority is tackling organised immigration crime (OIC) and reducing irregular migration to the UK, and the Commander is already providing effective systems leadership to deliver this. Any announcements on how the BSC will report on its activities will be made in the normal way in due course.

If the Secretary of State was obliged at some future point designate a civil servant as the Interim Border Security Commander, they would make the decision based on the individuals.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) charged and (b) convicted for offences relating to supplying small boat parts to gangs involved in smuggling people across the English channel in (i) 2022, (ii) 2023 and (iii) 2024.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

As the Rt Hon Member will be aware, the recently introduced Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill proposes a new offence relating to the supply of articles for use in Organised Immigration Crime, through which we will seek to clamp down on the activities to which his question refers. In respect of charges and convictions in pervious years where these activities were a factor, this data is not held centrally.

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether she plans to consult civil society before publishing the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill.

Answered by Angela Eagle - Minister of State (Home Office)

The King’s Speech on 17 July confirmed the Government will introduce the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to deliver enhanced powers to tackle organised immigration crime whilst providing for strong and effective border security. Work is underway to prepare this legislation and it will be introduced when Parliamentary time allows.

The measures will provide a framework for the Border Security Command to operate, improve investigative capability into organised immigration crime, enable smarter, faster and more effective interventions to protect UK border security; and make it easier to detect, disrupt and deter those seeking to engage in and benefit from organised immigration crime, limiting the permissible environment and its impact. Throughout the development of the legislation, the Government has engaged with a range of partners including operational teams and will continue to do so throughout the Bill’s passage.

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2024-25

Found: This renewed co-operation comes amid the introduction of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: has been revealed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as the government’s landmark Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: This visit also follows the introduction of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill to Parliament

Found: These laws, included within the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill introduced in Parliament

Found: are part of a stronger approach to organised crime which will form part of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: equality impact assessment

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: equality impact assessment

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: factsheets

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: impact assessment

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill 2025: impact assessment

Found: has been revealed by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper as the government’s landmark Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: by Martin Hewitt CBE QPM, will be provided with enhanced powers – through a new Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: impact assessment - RPC opinion (green-rated)

Found: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill: impact assessment - RPC opinion (green-rated)

Found: set out in the King’s Speech on 17 July 2024, the Government will introduce the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill