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UK Borders Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 5 February 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Liam Byrne. The answering member was Damian Green.
UK Borders Bill. Second reading debate. Agreed to on question. Programme motion on proceedings in Committee, on Report, Third reading and any other proceedings. Agreed to on division (285 votes to 174). Money resolution agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

456 c589-680 

Session

2006-07

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Second reading

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Liam Byrne | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) I recently wrote back to my hon. Friend and I hope that he received that letter. I do not think that...
Neil Gerrard | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) One theme that runs through the Bill is the giving of a wide range of increased powers to immigratio...

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Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c590 (Link to this contribution) I wanted to interrupt the Minister ago when he was talking about the local border authorities and th...
Speaker | 456 c590 (Link to this contribution) Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman has already mentioned the matter.
Liam Byrne | 456 c590 (Link to this contribution) I will give way once I have made more progress. The Bill should not be dismissed as another immigra...
Liam Byrne | 456 c589-90 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for those remarks and I hope that we will debate the matter he m...
David Heath | 456 c589 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is not going to introduce something advocated by Liberal Democrat and Conservativ...
Liam Byrne | 456 c589 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Last summer, my right hon. Friend the Home ...
Liam Byrne | 456 c592-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall make more progress before I give way again. In clauses 1 to 4, we seek to provide additiona...
Margaret Moran | 456 c593 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the provisions in the Bill to tackle those people who seek to make profit out of human mis...
Liam Byrne | 456 c593 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend on the work that she has done in this area and the consistent way in w...
Liam Byrne | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. I shall come to precisely some of the protections that it i...
Liam Byrne | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) It is extremely important that, as part of any enlargement, there is greater co-operation between th...
Tony Wright | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) I like very much what the Bill says about increased powers of deportation, but 14 per cent. of the p...
Liam Byrne | 456 c592 (Link to this contribution) I recently provided a parliamentary answer on that matter, and I will happily dig out the Hansard re...
John Redwood | 456 c591 (Link to this contribution) How many seaports and airports currently have seven-day-a-week, 24-hour cover—surveillance and perso...
Liam Byrne | 456 c592 (Link to this contribution) It is possible, under the existing measures in the border management programme, to undertake a degre...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c596 (Link to this contribution) The Minister made the point that the cards will be used in certain circumstances. Of course, the bri...
Liam Byrne | 456 c596 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but there is a requirement to check certain documents already, so the only change is that we ar...
Andrew Love | 456 c596 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to my hon. Friend for arriving after he started to speak. Some concern has been expresse...
Liam Byrne | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) There are no plans to seek such an extension. The important point that I should underline is that, w...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 456 c596 (Link to this contribution) Given that the basis on which people gain entitlement to welfare is changing and that it is crucial ...
Liam Byrne | 456 c596 (Link to this contribution) That is the foundation that the Bill will put into place. Obviously, the rules that govern the way t...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the Minister’s comments on biometric documents. If the raison d’être of ...
Liam Byrne | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) I welcome that point. It is good to hear an argument in support of that from the Opposition, because...
Lord Deben | 456 c593 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will understand that, in Felixstowe, which is Britain’s largest port, various aspects o...
Liam Byrne | 456 c593-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention. It is something that I would be anx...
Keith Vaz | 456 c594 (Link to this contribution) Nobody doubts the commitment of my hon. Friend and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary to trying...
Liam Byrne | 456 c594 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his intervention—[Laughter.] My right hon. Friend knows th...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c594 (Link to this contribution) It will no doubt have occurred to my hon. Friend that the Government’s regions often follow riparian...
Liam Byrne | 456 c594-5 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with my hon. Friend’s second question first. The advice of the Attorney-General and of S...
Lord Garnier | 456 c595 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister tell us—if he would care to listen—whether this part of the Bill adds to, subtracts...
Liam Byrne | 456 c595 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we will have that debate at length in Committee, but these clauses and powers will add t...
Fiona Mactaggart | 456 c595 (Link to this contribution) Often the people who end up with the most complicated problems are those whose status is not absolut...
Liam Byrne | 456 c595-6 (Link to this contribution) That is an extremely important point, which has been put to me by right hon. and hon. Members over t...
Liam Byrne | 456 c600 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will allow me to write a detailed answer to him, which I will place in th...
Liam Byrne | 456 c600 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Opposition voted against the Human Rights Act in 1998, and they went into the last e...
Liam Byrne | 456 c600 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman’s point, but I refer him back to my earlier remarks. There are four ways i...
Liam Byrne | 456 c599 (Link to this contribution) We are holding these people because the Home Secretary said that we would. If there are particular b...
David TC Davies | 456 c599 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way; he has been generous. As there is a 12-month limit, will he exp...
Liam Byrne | 456 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress. We propose to use other legislation to give effect to my right hon. Friend the...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c601 (Link to this contribution) I am still troubled by clauses 1 to 4. Will my hon. Friend authorise his officials to place in the L...
Liam Byrne | 456 c598 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to provide that clarification for my right hon. Friend. We will introduce biometric immig...
Liam Byrne | 456 c598 (Link to this contribution) I will make a little more progress, then I will be happy to give way. Significant work has already ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) I intervene again only because I am anxious that those who want the Government’s policy to be as rob...
Liam Byrne | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) My commitment to my right hon. Friend is to continue to listen to those arguments. If he will forgiv...
John Denham | 456 c597-8 (Link to this contribution) The introduction of compulsory biometric ID cards for people from outside the European economic area...
Roger Gale | 456 c598 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will appreciate that this matter is of particular importance to Kent, as a front-line c...
Liam Byrne | 456 c599 (Link to this contribution) There is a balance to be struck. We have sought to approach the question in four ways in the Bill. W...
Mark Francois | 456 c599 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his courtesy in giving way yet again. Bullwood Hall prison in my constituen...
Lord Garnier | 456 c616 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that, while we still have a free-travel area between the Uni...
John Denham | 456 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) There is indeed no end of material for fruitful discussion in Committee, and I am sure that those is...
Lord Garnier | 456 c616 (Link to this contribution) I shall, if I may, with the greatest of respect, correct the right hon. Gentleman. The Identity Card...
John Denham | 456 c616 (Link to this contribution) The strategy in the Bill, which the Minister outlined today, is targeted at another group of people....
Paul Rowen | 456 c621 (Link to this contribution) I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman about that. Those are real cases, involving people wh...
Lord Garnier | 456 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I can help the hon. Gentleman. The judge does not have a power to deport, but merely a power...
Paul Rowen | 456 c621 (Link to this contribution) The reality is that the judge already has the power to order a deportation. However, a deportation s...
David TC Davies | 456 c621 (Link to this contribution) I notice that the hon. Gentleman did not tell us what the crime was.
Paul Rowen | 456 c618-21 (Link to this contribution) We all want an immigration system that works. We want a system that is fair to everyone, firm where ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c621 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a reasonably cogent argument, but there does seem to be naivety and a l...
Lord Garnier | 456 c622 (Link to this contribution) That was not the point that the hon. Gentleman was making.
Paul Rowen | 456 c622 (Link to this contribution) No; the point that we were making was that automatic deportation in relation to a period of imprison...
Neil Gerrard | 456 c622-5 (Link to this contribution) I would not say that I was enthusiastic about seeing the Bill, because over the past few years there...
David TC Davies | 456 c625 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will surely appreciate that, in a country where the standard of living falls far ...
Paul Rowen | 456 c622 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. and learned Gentleman for that intervention, but I would be interested to know what...
Kerry McCarthy | 456 c627 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has given some examples of when he thinks that communities have integrated succes...
Neil Gerrard | 456 c625 (Link to this contribution) If we are moving to a system that involves points-based migration controls and better controls on il...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree with much of what the hon. Gentleman has said, but the problems to which he refers already e...
Neil Gerrard | 456 c626 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Government have to look at the impact of migration on delivery of services, but where ...
David TC Davies | 456 c627 (Link to this contribution) The history of Britain is one of immigration—often coming from the south or the east. We are constan...
Jon Cruddas | 456 c631-3 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure how to follow the speech made by the hon. Member for Monmouth (David T.C. Davies), but...
David TC Davies | 456 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) It is very shameful. A case recently came to my attention concerning a young lady from Poland who ha...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c629 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my scepticism of Labour Members who complain about the attitude of Conserv...
David TC Davies | 456 c628 (Link to this contribution) Well, if I am, I will have to be careful because my wife is one of them. When people tell us that we...
Speaker | 456 c627 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman must use the correct parliamentary language when he is addressing another ...
David TC Davies | 456 c627 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether you want historical examples. Obviously, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes were an ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to what the hon. Gentleman says. I notice that people talk, sometimes very ...
David TC Davies | 456 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to tell my constituents that I would like them to get a fair day’s pay for a fair da...
Jeremy Browne | 456 c628 (Link to this contribution) On a point of clarification, does the hon. Gentleman tell his constituents that he comes to this Hou...
David TC Davies | 456 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg your pardon, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Lady need only listen to some of the comments that h...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c633 (Link to this contribution) I agree with most of what the hon. Gentleman is saying, but I hope that that does not have too negat...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c634-7 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious as I begin my remarks that I am in the presence of the hon. Members for Keighley (Mrs...
Jon Cruddas | 456 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with that. That was an element of the Queen’s Speech debate on the future of the ONS...
Ann Cryer | 456 c637-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Second Reading of the UK Borders Bill, especially the aspects of it that deal with ill...
Damian Green | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) First, I do not accept the right hon. Gentleman’s premise. The Minister may have asserted that, but ...
John Denham | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Minister promised the Home Affairs Committee before Christmas that unskilled migratio...
Liam Byrne | 456 c605 (Link to this contribution) That is not the case. Some will be serving a sentence that is not coming to its conclusion. In addit...
Damian Green | 456 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) Nothing that the Minister has said alters his first answer, which was tremendously clear and honest....
Roger Gale | 456 c604 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend answer the question that the Minister failed to answer? We are talking about peo...
Damian Green | 456 c605 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s constituents—and those of all right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the Hous...
Liam Byrne | 456 c604 (Link to this contribution) Our estimates for this year, for example, are that those who might be affected by the 12-month sente...
Damian Green | 456 c604 (Link to this contribution) That is 45 per cent. of 10,000, so less than half would be eligible for automatic deportation. I thi...
Damian Green | 456 c604 (Link to this contribution) I must make progress, but I will give way to the hon. Lady later. I start with the part of the Bill...
Liam Byrne | 456 c601 (Link to this contribution) I will happily furnish advice from my officials and from colleagues north of the border. I conclude...
Damian Green | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that my hon. Friend gives me the opportunity to commend to the Government the Conserv...
Damian Green | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) We will have a consultation every year, and every year a Conservative Home Secretary will decide wha...
John Redwood | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is making a characteristically powerful case. Does he agree tha...
Keith Vaz | 456 c602 (Link to this contribution) Although I share some of the concerns that the hon. Gentleman has expressed, I know that his memory ...
Damian Green | 456 c602 (Link to this contribution) As the Government limp towards their 10th anniversary, attempts to blame their problems on the previ...
Philip Davies | 456 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the Bill is the political equivalent of Nero fiddling while Rome burn...
Damian Green | 456 c607 (Link to this contribution) To some extent, that question can be better answered by the Minister. My estimation is that that wou...
Julie Kirkbride | 456 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to the Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality and his...
Damian Green | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) I agree. People from around the country, whether with relatively small airports, although Newcastle ...
David Jones | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s point is correct, but it does not simply apply to small ports. Holyhead, for exampl...
Damian Green | 456 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) I see that I am more sympathetic to the Government than most of my hon. Friends; plus ça change. Le...
Peter Atkinson | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) One of the things that strikes travellers when they arrive at Britain’s regional airports, such as N...
Damian Green | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the point perfectly. If immigration officers, border police or whatever they ar...
David Leslie Taylor | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) This morning I visited the immigration service’s enforcement unit at East Midlands airport. It is no...
Damian Green | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) I apologise. I want to move on—
Damian Green | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) The moment never passes for my hon. Friend.
Damian Green | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point; Ministers are quick to blame the courts and judges for the ma...
Damian Green | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard).
Neil Gerrard | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) I should be grateful if the hon. Gentleman explained his party’s position on this issue. Is he sayin...
Jon Cruddas | 456 c614-5 (Link to this contribution) On the amnesty question, the Greater London authority estimates that in London alone there are some ...
John Denham | 456 c615 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that there will be a major public policy issue, but I see no way of avoiding...
David Leslie Taylor | 456 c614 (Link to this contribution) Of course my right hon. Friend is right that the focus should be on illegal working, but as we learn...
John Denham | 456 c614 (Link to this contribution) Let me make two points in response to that. First, in the past few months there has been a strengthe...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c614 (Link to this contribution) Is there not a danger that those who are here illegally and are working on the fringes of illegality...
John Denham | 456 c614 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. Some have responded to it by saying, ““Let’s have an am...
John Denham | 456 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that point, and I shall return briefly to EU issues in a moment. I shall...
Margaret Moran | 456 c615 (Link to this contribution) I did not have the privilege of being on the Select Committee at that time, but I commend my right h...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c609 (Link to this contribution) There is a calumny in the Bill. It states that people can be held for three hours before a police of...
Damian Green | 456 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will be grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving a dose of realism t...
David Leslie Taylor | 456 c610 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is most generous in allowing interventions. Following the visit that I carried ou...
Damian Green | 456 c610 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that I agree with the hon. Gentleman. He has a good point and I hope that he can convince ...
Damian Green | 456 c608 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that the East Midlands airport unit is working well. No doubt that is why the...
John Denham | 456 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) The Select Committee is currently looking at the evolution of such matters within the European Union...
Roger Gale | 456 c611 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that he hoped that there would be a lengthy debate on the biometric issue in Commi...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c613 (Link to this contribution) I agree that it is important that data and information are shared. Does the right hon. Gentleman agr...
John Denham | 456 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) I broadly welcome the Bill, and the Government’s response to the Home Affairs Committee report that ...
Keith Vaz | 456 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. This situation has been made worse by the cuts in legal aid, which mean tha...
Lord Garnier | 456 c669-70 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz), my parliamentary neighbour, made a thoughtful...
Keith Vaz | 456 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely sustainable. I do not believe that immigration has caused this country any problems...
Diane Abbott | 456 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it is not only the question of Ministers granting meetings on t...
Lord Garnier | 456 c670 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman wishes to insult his hon. Friend the Minister by calling him condescending and...
Keith Vaz | 456 c666 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Member for Shipley says is not true. I have never seen a link between immigration poli...
Mark Pritchard | 456 c666 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of borders, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that 2 million immigrants entering the ...
Speaker | 456 c666 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have ruled on that already this evening. The debate is not on political parties, but on bor...
Lord Garnier | 456 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I think the Chairman of the Education and Skills Committee can go to the back of the class. The Min...
Philip Davies | 456 c663 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will heed your advice. I wish briefly to touch on the issue of as...
Philip Davies | 456 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Lady spent more time in the Chamber and less time on television, she would know that I h...
Diane Abbott | 456 c664 (Link to this contribution) On the question of regaining control of our borders, how does the hon. Gentleman see that happening?...
Philip Davies | 456 c664 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may have a point and the hon. Member for Thurrock’s point about soft targets is p...
David Leslie Taylor | 456 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman wondered how large a contribution asylum made to the problems that we face. Is he...
Speaker | 456 c665 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I again remind Members that the debate today is on the contents of the UK Borders Bill?
Keith Vaz | 456 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, Madam Speaker, and I am grateful that the hon. Gentleman took that opportunity. However, it ...
Keith Vaz | 456 c665 (Link to this contribution) I was toying with the idea of abstaining on the Bill because of my concerns about it but, having lis...
Philip Davies | 456 c665 (Link to this contribution) At the end, I made it clear that there were thugs and nasty people in the BNP. I am more than happy ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c666 (Link to this contribution) I know that it is uncharacteristic of the right hon. Gentleman to be beastly to my hon. Friend the M...
Philip Davies | 456 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), whom I like and a...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) When that happens, it will be incumbent on Members on both sides of the House to be sensitive. I und...
Philip Davies | 456 c661 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman totally misconstrues what I am saying. I am not justifying anybody voting for the...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 456 c661 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Gentleman is saying is getting dangerously close to justifying people voting for the B...
Philip Davies | 456 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank you for that guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker. I merely explain why people vote for the BNP, a...
Paul Rowen | 456 c662 (Link to this contribution) Is it Conservative party policy to repeal the Human Rights Act?
Philip Davies | 456 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) Conservative party policy is that we will replace the Act with a Bill of Rights. In future, it would...
Mark Pritchard | 456 c663 (Link to this contribution) On the important subject of social cohesion and community relations, does my hon. Friend agree that ...
Speaker | 456 c663 (Link to this contribution) Order. Again, I remind hon. Members that we are discussing the content of the Bill.
Diane Abbott | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) We can all see that the Minister is paying my hon. Friend rapt attention, as is common courtesy in t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) While the Minister is thinking about my question, I give way to my hon. Friend.
Neil Gerrard | 456 c659 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making the very important point that some of the people who will be turned up will...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will recall that, when I asked the Minister earlier in the debate, he said that t...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to labour the point anymore. The rest of the House understands that the Minister clear...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) I take it from what the Minister says that the information is now in the Library, but the operationa...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister want to help me? I want some clarification.
Angela Watkinson | 456 c653 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s knowledge of the subject is second to none. His explanation is as I feared, and he ...
William Cash | 456 c653 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a basic reason for that problem is the introduction of the Human Righ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c656 (Link to this contribution) Well, I was just coming to the West Lothian question, so I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Stewart Hosie | 456 c657 (Link to this contribution) In fact, I wanted to refer to the example that the hon. Gentleman has just given. He calls for borde...
William Cash | 456 c653 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is addressing a central question that is extremely important. There is no reason on e...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c654 (Link to this contribution) Ever helpful, my hon. Friend adds an important point to the debate. In the past, deportation has of...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c654-6 (Link to this contribution) From my selfish point of view, I welcome the fact that Mr. Speaker did not impose time limits in the...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c656 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Angela Watkinson | 456 c639 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Lady for her tenacity in dealing with this ongoing problem, not only in he...
Ann Cryer | 456 c638-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is being a little unfair. The Government have done a great deal in relation to th...
Ann Cryer | 456 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) There is absolutely nothing wrong with arranged marriages. I have many friends who have gone through...
Kerry McCarthy | 456 c638 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned that the practice of forced marriage was un-Islamic. Does she agree that it...
Graham Stuart | 456 c638 (Link to this contribution) Given the cross-party concern about this issue, does the hon. Lady have any idea why the Government ...
Ann Cryer | 456 c638 (Link to this contribution) In my constituency, I have Bangladeshis and Pakistanis who are all Muslims. I accept that the practi...
Kerry McCarthy | 456 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) It very much depends on how we would handle that. I accept that we need controls on immigration, but...
Graham Stuart | 456 c645 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with interest to how the hon. Lady’s argument is developing. Is she saying that this ...
Kerry McCarthy | 456 c643-5 (Link to this contribution) I represent a constituency with a high number of what are generically referred to as asylum seekers,...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c643 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is shaking his head, and I was pleased when he explained earlier that that was not the ...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that. I look forward to reading it. I can imagine the conversation with Sco...
Liam Byrne | 456 c642 (Link to this contribution) I hope that we shall have that debate at some length in Committee. However, as I said to my hon. Fri...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c641-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister can intervene once I have asked my questions. I listened carefully to what he said earl...
Stewart Hosie | 456 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I welcome a number of items in the Bill. When the Bill was published, the Minister laid out in a pre...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention. The proper enforcement of existing legislation together...
Keith Vaz | 456 c650 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady have in her surgeries constituents who come in with letters from the Home Office ...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c649-50 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I have not attended an equivalent ceremony in my town ...
Graham Stuart | 456 c652 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said that we need the will to make things happen, so does she share my concern that, ...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c650-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right. I am sure that every hon. Member has had similar cases in their a...
Speaker | 456 c648 (Link to this contribution) Order. I hope that the hon. Lady will not stray outside the remit of the Bill when she replies.
Graham Stuart | 456 c648 (Link to this contribution) Is not housing the most fundamental infrastructure provision for a population that is growing as a r...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c649 (Link to this contribution) Has my hon. Friend, like me, attended a citizenship ceremony at the local town hall? I was touched t...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) As ever, Madam Deputy Speaker, I am guided by your advice. The London borough of Havering probably ...
Angela Watkinson | 456 c647-8 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for having left the Chamber in the middle of the debate to attend an unavoidable meeting...
Keith Vaz | 456 c675 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has my support for the proposals in respect of the reorganisation of the immigration an...
Joan Ryan | 456 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) I can indeed give that assurance, and I can say to him that we will provide even greater powers for ...
Keith Vaz | 456 c674 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?
Joan Ryan | 456 c674 (Link to this contribution) I will give way after I have made a little more progress, as I want to make some points. The hon. M...
Joan Ryan | 456 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not intend to accept interventions at the moment, because many Members have made valuable point...
Joan Ryan | 456 c673 (Link to this contribution) We are tackling facilitation and people trafficking by extending our prosecution powers, and we are ...
Joan Ryan | 456 c673 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, express my gratitude for an informed and lively debate in the Chamber? Immigration is a ...
Lord Garnier | 456 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) We have been presented with a Bill that does no more than present yet further problems, but no answe...
David TC Davies | 456 c673 (Link to this contribution) Thinking back to his earlier comments relating to the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), w...
Lord Garnier | 456 c673 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has never been backward in holding anyone to account, and I suggest that he carry on ...
Speaker | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is far too much noise in the House.
Lord Garnier | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) For example, regulations made under clause 5(2)(d) could require that any person required to apply s...
Lord Austin of Dudley | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) Which bits of the speech by the hon. Member for Shipley (Philip Davies) is the hon. and learned Gent...
Speaker | 456 c661 (Link to this contribution) Order. Will the hon. Gentleman please relate his remarks to the Bill? I think that he was just about...
John Denham | 456 c592 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, the Select Committee on Home Affairs, under successive Chairmen, has suppor...
David TC Davies | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. and learned Friend give way? [Interruption.]
Speaker | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. and learned Gentleman has not indicated that he is prepared to give way.
John Denham | 456 c616 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. All sorts of problems will arise from joint operations involving members of the two servi...
Liam Byrne | 456 c597 (Link to this contribution) Sorry; I thought that the hon. Gentleman said 2006. If the question is about the 1996 Act—[Interrupt...
Ian Davidson | 456 c600 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister clarify what happens when someone appeals against deportation from the country to ...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c600 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister concede that a systemic failure has been built into the Bill, because in respect o...
Liam Byrne | 456 c658 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question, but I could not have been clearer in my earlier re...
Damian Green | 456 c603 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. I shall shortly come to our recommendations for making our borders se...
Damian Green | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) Our proposals are that people should receive the appropriate sentences for the offences that they ha...
Damian Green | 456 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. The Bill gives rise to a large number of issues and I suspect that ther...
Lord Garnier | 456 c672 (Link to this contribution) As I said in my opening remarks, there are some speeches that are worthy of rehearsal, and I mention...
Andrew Mackinlay | 456 c657 (Link to this contribution) There is clearly a lack of leadership and proper management, too. The charge implicit in the hon. Ge...
Damian Green | 456 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) The Minister will realise from the tone of the interventions—not so much from the Benches behind me,...
Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 456 c606 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a disparity in respect of the recommendations within the Hom...

Subjects

Children
Biometrics
Appeals
Crime
Asylum
Deportation
Assets
Airports
Borders
Employment
Human rights
Immigration controls
Immigration
Identity cards
Undocumented migrants
EU nationals
Immigration officers
Forced marriage
Police
Powers
Prisoners
Ports
Property
Nationality
Proof of identity
Migrant workers
Scotland
Registration
Repatriation
Immigration and Nationality Directorate
Border and Immigration Agency
People smuggling

Legislation

UK Borders Bill 2006-07

Link

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