Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025

Commons bill Government Bill 2025-26 Act of Parliament

Passed โ€” Royal Assent 2 December 2025
Sponsor
Yvette Cooper (Labour)
+ 1 co-sponsor
  • Lord Hanson of Flint (Labour)
Introduced
30 January 2025
Royal Assent
2 December 2025
About this bill

A Bill to make provision about border security; to make provision about immigration and asylum; to make provision about sharing customs data and trailer registration data; to make provision about articles for use in serious crime; to make provision about serious crime prevention orders; to make provision about fees paid in connection with the recognition, comparability or assessment of qualifications; and for connected purposes.

Parliamentary stages

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Commons
โœ“ First reading 30 Jan 2025
โœ“ Second reading 10 Feb 2025โ†—
โœ“ Programme motion 10 Feb 2025
โœ“ Money resolution 10 Feb 2025
โœ“ Committee stage 27 Feb 2025โ†—
โœ“ Ways and Means resolution 12 May 2025
โœ“ Report stage 12 May 2025
โœ“ Third reading 12 May 2025
โœ“ Programme motion 19 Nov 2025
โœ“ Consideration Of Lords Amendments 19 Nov 2025
Lords
โœ“ First reading 13 May 2025
โœ“ Second reading 2 Jun 2025
โœ“ Committee stage 26 Jun 2025
โœ“ Report stage 28 Oct 2025
โœ“ Third reading 17 Nov 2025
Final stages
โœ“ Royal Assent 2 Dec 2025

Some stage debates occurred before our Hansard archive begins (May 2025). Links marked โ†— go to Parliament's own Hansard for that date.

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What this bill is about

From the Explanatory Notes (May 2025):

1 The Bill establishes the architecture and provides the tools, powers and offences to transform the cross-system response to the threats against UK border security and strengthen the operation of the border security, asylum and immigration systems. 2 The purpose of the Bill is to improve UK border security and strengthen the asylum and immigration system by creating a framework of new and enhanced powers and offences that, when taken together, reinforce, strengthen and connect capabilities across the relevant government and law enforcement partners which make up the UKโ€™s border security, asyโ€ฆ
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