Ministry of Justice ministerial roles

The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice is responsible for oversight of all portfolios and Ministry of Justice strategy and: 

• Oversight of future relationship with the EU and international business
• Resourcing of the department
• Functions of the Lord Chancellor
• Judicial policy including pay, pensions and diversity
• Corporate services

HM Advocate General for Scotland and MoJ spokesperson for the Lords - Rt Hon Lord Keen of Elie QC

The Office of the Advocate General considers all Scottish Parliament Bills as they progress, in consultation with interested UK government departments, to assess their legislative competency. 

MoJ spokesperson for the Lords
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) spokesperson for the Lords is responsible for all departmental business in the Lords. He advises the Secretary of State for Justice on the following policy areas:

• Civil law and justice
• Legal services
• Global Britain
• Relationship with the legal profession
• Crown Dependencies

Minister of State - Lucy Frazer QC MP

Responsibilities include: 

• Prison operations, policy, reform and industrial relations
• Probation services, policy, reform and industrial relations
• Public protection (including Parole Board, IPPs and Serious Further Offences)
• Offender health
• Female offenders
• Transgender offenders
• Veteran offenders
• Foreign national offenders (joint work with Chris Philp MP)
• Offender rehabilitation and release
• Reducing Reoffending (joint work with Kit Malthouse MP)
• Extremism
• ROTL and HDC
• Electronic monitoring (joint work with Kit Malthouse MP)
• Youth Justice
• The minister also provides support on Global Britain and the promotion of legal services.

Minister of State - Kit Malthouse MP (who is also Home Office Minister for Policing and the Fire Service)

Home Office responsibilities include :

• policing
• crime
• county lines
• criminal justice system
• acquisitive crime
• public protection and protests
• undercover policing
• Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS)
• police technology
• police powers
• facial recognition
• major events
• football policing
• reoffending
• unauthorised encampments
• firearms
• serious violence
• drugs and alcohol

Ministry of Justice responsibilities include:

• cross-cutting criminal justice system issues. In particular:
  • rape review
  • cross-criminal justice system demand
  • swift justice with knife crime focus
• reducing reoffending (joint work with Lucy Frazer QC MP)
• support on criminal justice board and Prime Minister’s Crime Taskforce
• electronic monitoring (joint work with Lucy Frazer QC MP)
• drugs and alcohol
• joint Spending Review bids

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State - Alex Chalk MP (who is also an Assistant Government Whip)

Responsibilities include: 

• Family law and justice
• Domestic abuse and violence (MoJ lead)
• Legal aid
• Legal support
• Victims
• Mental capacity and the Office of the Public Guardian
• Race disparity in the justice system
• Coroners, burials, inquests and inquiries
• Miscarriages of justice
• Criminal law
• Human Rights
• Lawfare
• Devolved Administrations and devolution
• Independent Monitoring Authority
• Shadow Commons minister for Lord Keen’s portfolio
• Supporting the Secretary of State on future EU relationship and international business

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Immigration Compliance and the Courts, jointly with the Home Office) - Chris Philp MP

Home Office responsibilities include: 

• compliance environment
• detention
• returns
• foreign national offenders
• illegal immigration strategy
• overseas development aid
• Immigration Enforcement
• asylum
• resettlement
• casework
• nationality
• animals (illegal wildlife trade)
• sponsorship of Border Force and Immigration Enforcement directorates
• supporting Lords Minister on corporate affairs, including the Spending Review and Budget

Ministry of Justice responsibilities include::

• 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
• sentencing
• court and tribunal services and reform
• court and tribunal fees
• administrative justice
• supporting the Secretary of State on departmental finance