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Immigration Control

Adjournment debate on Thursday, 2 November 2006, in the House of Commons, led by John Denham. The answering member was Liam Byrne.

Westminster Hall adjournment debate on immigration control.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

451 c149-82WH

Session

2005-06

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Immigration Control. Government reply to the fifth report from the Home Affairs Select Committee session 2005-06 (HC 775).
Monday, 18 September 2006
Command papers
House of Commons

Immigration control. Home Affairs Select Committee fifth report in 3 volumes with proceedings, evidence (HC 775 i-xii not printed separately) and appendices.
Thursday, 13 July 2006
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Andrew Dismore | 451 c161-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am not a member of the Select Committee on Home Affairs, so I am a bit of an interloper in the deb...

Janet Dean | 451 c158-61WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to take part in the debate. I start by thanking my right hon. Frie...

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Ann Cryer | 451 c166WH (Link to this contribution) Forced marriages are covered in pages 77 to 79 of the report, and I pay tribute to various people wh...

Ann Cryer | 451 c164-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate everyone in the room on tolerating the conditions of a miserable, cold Chamber. I won...

David Winnick | 451 c157-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend, who has studied those matters very well, will have seen paragraph 479...

Neil Gerrard | 451 c158WH (Link to this contribution) I understand the argument, but a balance must be struck. If we were to have a regularisation scheme,...

Speaker | 451 c158WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that further interventions will be shorter than that.

Janet Dean | 451 c166-7WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend sometimes find it difficult to get the authorities to take action in such cases?...

Ann Cryer | 451 c167-8WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that. Those women feel badly done by, not only because of their husbands,...

Mark Hunter | 451 c168-71WH (Link to this contribution) Before I begin my own remarks, I wish to pay tribute to the previous speaker, the hon. Member for Ke...

Liam Byrne | 451 c174-82WH (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to fill the Chamber with hot air, although hon. Members will be pleased to hear t...

Speaker | 451 c174WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Before I call the Minister, I inform hon. Members that the House authorities have been doing ...

Damian Green | 451 c171-4WH (Link to this contribution) I agreed with quite a lot of what the hon. Member for Cheadle (Mark Hunter) said in the early part o...

Neil Gerrard | 451 c155-6WH (Link to this contribution) I found the report useful and interesting and, as the Chair of the Committee, my right hon. Friend t...

John Denham | 451 c149-54WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the usual authorities for arranging the debate and for the opportunity to discuss o...

Andrew Dismore | 451 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friend’s experience as a London MP is not dissimilar to mine. Half my new cas...

Neil Gerrard | 451 c156-7WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely right. I am in roughly the same position: I guess that half—it might even be more—of the ...

David Drew | 451 c156WH (Link to this contribution) We all have such cases in our constituencies. I want to link the problem to the role of MPs. One of ...

Neil Gerrard | 451 c156WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree and if I had received such a response I would have reacted in exactly the same wa...

Subjects

Borders

Employment

Immigration controls

Immigration

Undocumented migrants

Home Office

Staff

Overcrowding

Training

Visas

Immigration and Nationality Directorate

Link

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