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Immigration Service

Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 25 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Reid of Cardowan.
Statement on the reform of the Immigration Service. (Plan in Library)

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Reference

449 c735-52 

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Deposited Paper DEP 06/1560
Tuesday, 25 July 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c752 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that I do not know. My hon. Friend has started to engage with my hon. Friend the Minis...
Tom Harris | 449 c752 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend envisage a change in the law in order to deal with asylum seekers who succ...

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Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c752 (Link to this contribution) I am deeply sad to disappoint the hon. Gentleman, but on this occasion he is not able to lay the ill...
William Cash | 449 c752 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary accept that perhaps he is creating some confusion between what he is saying ...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c751 (Link to this contribution) The new director of enforcement whom I announced earlier today is already engaged on that matter, an...
Clive Betts | 449 c751 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s comments about the need to crack down on illegal working. Further t...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) It obviously means that in the last instance, having got rid of duplicates and errors, and those who...
James Clappison | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) The 283,000 estimate to which the Home Secretary referred relates to asylum seekers whose claims hav...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c751-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether I will disappoint my hon. Friend, but by and large at the moment we do not tak...
Neil Gerrard | 449 c751 (Link to this contribution) To return to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Kate Hoey) about the implicat...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c751 (Link to this contribution) We always keep in contact with our colleagues in the Scottish Executive on these matters. For instan...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c749 (Link to this contribution) We hope that that will be done both by increased enforcement capacity, capability, technology and re...
Simon Hughes | 449 c749 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that from the perspective of those of us who have huge daily contact ...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c749-50 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think so, although our shortcomings sometimes assist such people to make money, sometimes und...
Baroness Hoey | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary confirm that when the shadow agency is created it will make absolutely no di...
Jacqui Lait | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the Home Secretary will agree that many illegal asylum seekers are in the country becaus...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c749 (Link to this contribution) We will try to make sure that that is the case. Earlier, I mentioned resources and enforcement. I dr...
David Marshall | 449 c749 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is aware that many people came legally to the UK on visitors visas, but failed ...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly the case with regard to the shadow form of the agency, but I hope that we can have...
Andrew Mackinlay | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with that. That is rubbish.
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c750 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that anyone would disagree with looking at that, but that is certainly part of the bu...
Gwyn Prosser | 449 c747-8 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the plans to reform the immigration and nationality directorate, particularly th...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) One of the things that we hope will be achieved by giving the IND a degree of autonomy—first in shad...
Lord Bannside | 449 c747 (Link to this contribution) I regret that the right hon. Gentleman has to learn in a very hard school that Northern Ireland is n...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c747 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. Gentleman’s first point, I believe that we have an accurate number of case files a...
Martin Linton | 449 c746 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the doubling of the enforcement budget and the target of dealing with 90 per cent. of asyl...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c746-7 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and that contributes to a double inefficiency, because the longer a family is in the cou...
Keith Vaz | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) In respect of the new shadow agency that the Home Secretary is creating, will he undertake to consul...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) We have said that where people have been given a custodial sentence over a given time, which we have...
Andrew Dismore | 449 c745 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that for a long time I have been one of the sternest critics of t...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c745 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that anyone is asking hon. Members to accept that premise. It is wildly wrong to sugg...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c746 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has been a forceful advocate on the subject for some time. The truth of t...
Viscount Hailsham | 449 c746 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has dealt with the criminal liability that will be attached to employers wh...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c746 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly reasonable point, and I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for accepting...
Nick Clegg | 449 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for advance notice of the statement, although my gratitude is a little bl...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) To start with the hon. Gentleman’s last point, although the Chahal judgment requires consideration o...
John Denham | 449 c741-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for his reference to the Select Committee on Home Affairs and the report ...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c742 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree with my right hon. Friend that the fact of the matter is that those who work here illeg...
Speaker | 449 c744 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman is getting us off to a bad start. I have counted three questions. I ...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c744 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right to say that we face a challenge of hitherto unimaginable proportions d...
Speaker | 449 c744 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House will know that there is a great deal of business to be completed today, in which a ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 449 c744 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that this country is facing a level of legal immigration unknown in i...
Lord Young of Cookham | 449 c744 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary’s statement has considerable resource implications for the immigration and nation...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c745 (Link to this contribution) I assure the right hon. Gentleman that, as ever, the Chancellor has been my flexible friend as I hav...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for welcoming many of the proposals, which he left unspecified, whi...
David Davis | 449 c737-40 (Link to this contribution) I think that the word should have been ““commend””. Perhaps the Home Secretary thinks that he is sti...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c735-7 (Link to this contribution) Last week, I set out to the House our plans for transforming the Home Office and for rebalancing the...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c745 (Link to this contribution) I regret the terminology that the hon. Gentleman chose to use in referring to those who are trying t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 449 c746 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is still ambiguous about what the uniformed force will do. Unless and until t...
Stewart Hosie | 449 c751 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for giving notice of the statement and I welcome many of the initiatives,...
Lord Reid of Cardowan | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly give my right hon. Friend a guarantee on the first point. I will ask my hon. Friend ...
Julie Kirkbride | 449 c748 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary said that he wanted to link criminality more clearly to deportation. Can he tell ...
Roger Gale | 449 c745 (Link to this contribution) Those of us who represent Kent coastal constituencies regard ourselves as being on the front line of...

Subjects

Deportation
Civil service agencies
British nationality
Civil servants
Borders
Immigration controls
Immigration
Undocumented migrants
Government departments
Home Office
Staff
Reorganisation
Immigration and Nationality Directorate

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