Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 14 July 2009, in the House of Commons.

Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill (HL). Report stage debate. New clause 2 debated and added to the Bill. New clause 8, discussed with new clause 6, debated and added to the Bill. New clause 1, discussed with new clauses 3, 5 and 7, debated and withdrawn, with new clause 3 being negatived on division (189 votes to 270). Amendments made. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question and Bill passed with amendments. [Relevant Documents: The Ninth Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights of Session 2008-09, Legislative Scrutiny: Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill, HC 375, and the Seventeenth Report from the Committee, Government replies to the Second, Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Twelfth Reports of Session 2008-09, HC 592.]

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496 c177-257

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2008-09

Proceeding contributions

Phil Woolas | 496 c181 (Link to this contribution) I have of course looked into that point and. I have read the reports, as the hon. Gentleman has. The...

Phil Woolas | 496 c181 (Link to this contribution) Before I do that, I give way to the hon. Gentleman.

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Lord Field of Birkenhead | 496 c179 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that. Given his tapestry analogy, will he take a message back to the Home O...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c180 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for giving way, and I am particularly pleased by his reference to the ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c179 (Link to this contribution) My immediate thought is that we should not take the analogy any further. The Government are committe...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c180 (Link to this contribution) It is the net inflow.

Phil Woolas | 496 c180 (Link to this contribution) Our policy is one of managed migration, and our intention is that we will be able to manage the numb...

Pete Wishart | 496 c181 (Link to this contribution) In increasing the period of this type of detention that some people will face, is the Minister satis...

Phil Woolas | 496 c180 (Link to this contribution) The net inflow, I am sorry, but that is according to Office for National Statistics definitions with...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 496 c178 (Link to this contribution) Since we last discussed the Bill on the Floor of the House of Commons, the Government have published...

Phil Woolas | 496 c178-9 (Link to this contribution) The Bill provides a beautiful tapestry on which the next proposals will be embroidered. There is a b...

Speaker | 496 c177-8 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: Amendment (a) thereto, after 'detention', ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c178 (Link to this contribution) May I report back to the House on the deliberations of the Committee? I believe that we had comprehe...

Phil Woolas | 496 c177 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c195 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for saying that. On the structure of the administration of the facili...

Chris Huhne | 496 c196 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the proposal for a separate immigration policy would be entirely ...

Pete Wishart | 496 c196-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that, because exactly what is lacking in the points-...

Sammy Wilson | 496 c197 (Link to this contribution) I understand the hon. Gentleman's point about the cost, and perhaps the answer is to administer depo...

Pete Wishart | 496 c197 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, and deportation is necessary in many cases. No hon. Member would argue ...

Charles Walker | 496 c197-8 (Link to this contribution) There is a good Charles Walker and a bad Charles Walker. The bad Charles Walker says on occasions, "...

Phil Woolas | 496 c198 (Link to this contribution) I will restrict my remarks to the amendments before us. We have had a wide-ranging debate on these a...

Speaker | 496 c198 (Link to this contribution) Order. Sometimes it is reasonable to allow a little background to the amendments that we are discuss...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c187 (Link to this contribution) I represent 14 miles of river front and I know what I am talking about.

Damian Green | 496 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) We can all agree with that, and I think that the hon. Gentleman has the better argument. Those of us...

Damian Green | 496 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that is right, and I know my hon. Friend has great expertise in respect of Gatwick. Let me...

John McDonnell | 496 c189-91 (Link to this contribution) Before speaking to my amendments, I shall address the issue of short-term holding facilities. There ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c188 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend may or may not know, Lord West is a goat; a member of the "Government of all the t...

Speaker | 496 c195 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am reluctant to stop the hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.] Yes, I think he has probably exhaus...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c195 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Deputy Speaker, you have been characteristically, magnificently generous and I am sorry to have ...

Tom Brake | 496 c191-3 (Link to this contribution) I shall speak briefly to this group of amendments on border functions. Before I come to our amendmen...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c193-5 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend the Member for Ashford (Damian Green) observed, there is a sort of ritual to these...

Damian Green | 496 c187 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resolve the argument between the Minister and his hon. Friend, certainly not while keeping ...

Damian Green | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) Yes, as the hon. Gentleman says, there are some reasonably sized ports that lack that expertise. It ...

Damian Green | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) I will rapidly move on to another amendment, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but not before saying that the Mini...

Phil Woolas | 496 c187 (Link to this contribution) I take on board what you said, of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but does not the case of Kent rather d...

Damian Green | 496 c187 (Link to this contribution) I have obviously discussed the issue with Kent police. Like all effective police forces, it would li...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c187 (Link to this contribution) I bear in mind what you said, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but the fact is that with human nature being what ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that as far as the public whom we are sent here to represent are concerned...

Damian Green | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and I can only repeat the point that I have just made. We are not short of ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) I am following the debate carefully. I respect the hon. Gentleman's argument on the relationship bet...

Speaker | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I say gently to the House that this is in danger of widening out into a Second Reading de...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c186 (Link to this contribution) Southampton.

Damian Green | 496 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, who speaks from his own constituency experience, is exactly right. There are ine...

Damian Green | 496 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister responds, I accept that he has said that the proposal has not been ruled out for...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c185 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of offending the vast number of Labour colleagues sitting behind the Minister, I have to...

Damian Green | 496 c183-4 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has entertained us by comparing the Bill to a beautiful tapestry. I see it as a more mo...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c182 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister. I understand that these are extremely difficult matters, but as he sa...

Phil Woolas | 496 c182-3 (Link to this contribution) Straightforwardly, no. That is my point. That figure is an extrapolation, but I agree that it is imp...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 496 c181 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. The Minister is always extremely courteous in giving way. May I ask him a questi...

Phil Woolas | 496 c253 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes the very important point that the applicant for citizenship does not need...

Keith Vaz | 496 c251-3 (Link to this contribution) I will certainly accept your ruling, Mr. Speaker. Nevertheless, we are glad that this very important...

Damian Green | 496 c253 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman he share my concern that the hurdles to citizenship which, as he says,...

Keith Vaz | 496 c253 (Link to this contribution) I accept that point, but I do not think that the public are desperately concerned about legal immigr...

Keith Vaz | 496 c253-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right: it is disturbing. The truth of the matter, in my view, is that the Gove...

Phil Woolas | 496 c254 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend does not mean that in a nasty way. I think that he is right. We are...

Keith Vaz | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether the term "substantial" means that he is very large, or that his curriculum vit...

Speaker | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) Order. The right hon. Gentleman's speech was absolutely on track, and he should not be diverted from...

Peter Bone | 496 c257 (Link to this contribution) The all-party group on human trafficking battles with the problem that if children—in this case, gir...

Speaker | 496 c256 (Link to this contribution) Order. I apologise for interrupting the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne). I say to the hon. M...

Chris Huhne | 496 c255-6 (Link to this contribution) As always, I am delighted to follow the right hon. Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz). Any Immig...

Chris Huhne | 496 c257 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising that issue, because it is important. One o...

Peter Bone | 496 c254 (Link to this contribution) As usual, the right hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech, but when it comes to the specific is...

Keith Vaz | 496 c254-5 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman and especially to the hon. Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) for the...

Keith Vaz | 496 c254 (Link to this contribution) We look forward to hearing the proposals. My final point relates to human trafficking, which has be...

Damian Green | 496 c248-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, along with my hon. Friend the Member for Totnes (Mr. Steen) and many other Members o...

Chris Huhne | 496 c249 (Link to this contribution) Eleven.

Phil Woolas | 496 c248 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) is that the loophole has not occurred beca...

Speaker | 496 c248 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have allowed some leeway, but as hon. Members know, Third Reading is about the content of t...

Damian Green | 496 c248 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for your guidance, Madam Deputy Speaker, though I am sure you will admit that your gen...

Peter Bone | 496 c248 (Link to this contribution) I am a member of the all-party group on trafficking of women and children and we have called for the...

Phil Woolas | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes we have a more interesting debate after the votes than before them. Let me be clear: the C...

Damian Green | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) The Minister wilfully misunderstands. We do not completely rely on the Republic of Ireland. As the h...

Chris Huhne | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) It seems extraordinary that we are now hearing from the Government Benches about apparent threats to...

Damian Green | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The Minister should stop digging, because his warnings of what not taking the steps that he...

Keith Vaz | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to start a ministerial competition.

Simon Burns | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has certainly told us a very interesting piece of information. Could he enl...

Keith Vaz | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) I did not serve on the Committee for this Bill, although I did participate in the Second Reading deb...

Phil Woolas | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his support during this period. For the record, may I clar...

Peter Bone | 496 c250 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend concludes his remarks, may I tell him that I am interested in the issue of whe...

Damian Green | 496 c250 (Link to this contribution) I genuinely do not wish to be the first person to call for the recall of Parliament over the summer,...

Keith Vaz | 496 c249 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will have noted in The Times today that a second report has emerged, from the Cab...

Damian Green | 496 c249-50 (Link to this contribution) I agree. Indeed, I was making the more general point that much more effective control of our borders...

Damian Green | 496 c249 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes it 11; at some stage we must sit down and work out which he thinks are immi...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c205 (Link to this contribution) I urge the Minister to reflect on this and to be cautious about listening to the advice of the Home ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c199 (Link to this contribution) I gave way to the good hon. Gentleman, and his intervention was good, too. My experience is that the...

Charles Walker | 496 c199 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is very generous in giving way, and he is very good at laying traps—I hope that I do no...

Phil Woolas | 496 c200 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman. I do not claim personal credit for the improvements—at le...

Lord Deben | 496 c199-200 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that those of us who are very sympathetic to his argument still have a numbe...

Phil Woolas | 496 c200-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman describes the two pressures on us, even if it is not quite a Jekyll and Hyde situ...

Charles Walker | 496 c200 (Link to this contribution) I agree with what my right hon. Friend the Member for Suffolk, Coastal (Mr. Gummer) says. I deal wit...

Phil Woolas | 496 c202-4 (Link to this contribution) The independent monitoring board and the inspectorate regime provide the framework for specific plac...

Damian Green | 496 c202 (Link to this contribution) I take the Minister's point, which is indeed clear, but how will the Secretary of State know? One of...

Phil Woolas | 496 c198-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very aware of that, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and very grateful. It is, of course, entirely a matter ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c207 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Phil Woolas | 496 c206 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman agrees; he is nodding his assent. I am grateful to him for that. I...

Tom Brake | 496 c206 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Phil Woolas | 496 c205-6 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I have before me a note on that very point. In his evidence to the Home Affairs Commi...

Phil Woolas | 496 c209 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question; he goes to the heart of the matter. About 4,600 judicia...

Paul Rowen | 496 c209 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what the Minister says, does he have estimates of the number of cases that will be t...

Phil Woolas | 496 c208-9 (Link to this contribution) We now move on to the administration of justice, and judicial review in particular. In my opening re...

Speaker | 496 c207-8 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: new clause 6—Right of appeal to court of a...

Phil Woolas | 496 c205 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that we have looked closely into the matter. It has been the subject of ...

Tom Brake | 496 c205 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that some investigations are being undertaken into whether a voluntary arrangemen...

Phil Woolas | 496 c216 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Member for Broxbourne (Mr. Walker) on his last point. The issue is more diffic...

Charles Walker | 496 c215-6 (Link to this contribution) In bringing forward new clause 8, the Minister poses serious questions. Whose interests does the imm...

Neil Gerrard | 496 c216 (Link to this contribution) That is very helpful, but may we also have an assurance about what information would come to the Hou...

Damian Green | 496 c211-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his warm and entirely justified tribute to Lord Kingsland, who died so sudd...

Phil Woolas | 496 c211 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to do that. I believe it would be helpful. One could say that I am giving in graciously. ...

Paul Rowen | 496 c214-5 (Link to this contribution) I, too, pay tribute to Lord Kingsland for his work in the other place. We are seeing in tonight's de...

Neil Gerrard | 496 c213-4 (Link to this contribution) I speak mainly to new clause 6 and to Government amendment 41, which will remove clause 54. Some of ...

Charles Walker | 496 c209 (Link to this contribution) Can the Minister say how many cases are referred to judicial review each year?

Phil Woolas | 496 c209-10 (Link to this contribution) There are an incredible 4,600-plus applications. Around 85 per cent. of them are rejected. That back...

Paul Rowen | 496 c211 (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes an important point. Given the gravity of the statement that he has just made, wil...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c221 (Link to this contribution) And I am very proud to have my hon. Friend as a colleague in the House, and I also hope that she see...

Emily Thornberry | 496 c221 (Link to this contribution) I am going to do exactly that. I am an Irish passport holder, although I come from a background of d...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c221 (Link to this contribution) I suspect that we will hear from somebody who could claim Irish citizenship.

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c220-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct, but there is more to it than that. Let me explain my own p...

Sammy Wilson | 496 c220 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that his point is made even more poignant by the fact that many people...

Speaker | 496 c218-9 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: new clause 3—Amendment of the immigration ...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c220 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House long, but we have an opportunity, which the House will probably not have...

Phil Woolas | 496 c216-8 (Link to this contribution) I assume that my hon. Friend means information about the capacity of the tribunal service. I would m...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c218 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

Damian Green | 496 c246 (Link to this contribution) Certainly, at no stage has any Minister made the case that the process would not cause huge inconven...

Damian Green | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware that the Government have produced convincing evidence about the loophole in our defen...

Phil Woolas | 496 c243-5 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I would like to put on record my thanks to...

Damian Green | 496 c245-6 (Link to this contribution) I echo the Minister's thanks to all the officials who dealt with the Bill. That meant that technical...

Keith Vaz | 496 c246 (Link to this contribution) I intervene at the risk of breaking this wonderful consensus between the two Front Benchers, which I...

Damian Green | 496 c246 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the right hon. Gentleman, and I was going to come to that later. We had a gre...

Paul Rowen | 496 c241 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief. I wish to speak to amendment 29, which stands in my name and the names of my hon. F...

Phil Woolas | 496 c241-2 (Link to this contribution) Time is limited. I undertake to answer the specific questions on Report, if I catch your eye then, M...

Speaker | 496 c240 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 24, in clause 56, page 46, line ...

Damian Green | 496 c240-1 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that we have a brief time to discuss an extremely important part of the Bill and the extre...

Damian Green | 496 c240 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 26, page 46, line 9, at end insert—

Speaker | 496 c239 (Link to this contribution) We now come to amendments 26, 24, 28, 29 and 39.

Crispin Blunt | 496 c240 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Amendment 14 tabled by the Liberal Democrats, which was d...

Phil Woolas | 496 c239 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that. That argument shows the misunderstanding of the proposal. If the hon. Gentlema...

Paul Rowen | 496 c239 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for that agreement. The common travel area has existed since 1922. It ...

Sammy Wilson | 496 c239 (Link to this contribution) Travellers from Northern Ireland are UK citizens, but what the measure that the Minister describes a...

Keith Vaz | 496 c228 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Chris Huhne | 496 c227-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Gerrard), and to support amendment 8 for...

Keith Vaz | 496 c228 (Link to this contribution) I have been following the debate on the monitor. Today the Home Secretary gave evidence to the Sele...

Chris Huhne | 496 c228 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way to the right hon. Gentleman.

Neil Gerrard | 496 c225-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall address my remarks mainly to new clause 5 and amendment 8, which stand in my name, and then ...

Chris Huhne | 496 c228-9 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee. I know that he has made thi...

Phil Woolas | 496 c229-30 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to respond to the points raised. New clause 1 was debated first, so let me explain the si...

Damian Green | 496 c222-3 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to go down the route set by the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay), but I will...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c222 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. I recall his private Member's Bill, and I hope that if we ...

Gregory Campbell | 496 c221-2 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for bringing this issue and new clause before the Hous...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c221 (Link to this contribution) Well, the usual way is long, contorted, expensive and downright irritating, and I just think that pe...

Geoffrey Cox | 496 c221 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a very powerful case on an issue I was not aware of before he brought i...

Humfrey Malins | 496 c224 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I have read all the debates from the other place, and there is a...

Damian Green | 496 c223-4 (Link to this contribution) I think we should make progress. The Government have not learned from this and have tried to introd...

Chris Huhne | 496 c223 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says his party has consistently opposed these retrospective provisions, and we we...

Damian Green | 496 c223 (Link to this contribution) I had hoped that the hon. Gentleman was listening to my speech, in which I made the point that highl...

Paul Rowen | 496 c237 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move amendment 14, page 44, line 4, leave out clause 50.

Speaker | 496 c234 (Link to this contribution) That has not been moved, but I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying.

Paul Rowen | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 14 would remove clause 50, which deals with the common travel area. I understand that the ...

Speaker | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: amendment 46, in clause 59, page 47, line ...

Speaker | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) Order. There are far too many private conversations going on in the Chamber. Will Members who are no...

Crispin Blunt | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) I had planned to gild the lily of my arguments in Committee, which were sadly rejected—[Interruption...

Phil Woolas | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Members for Rochdale (Paul Rowen) and for Reigate (Mr. Blunt) for their constructiv...

Crispin Blunt | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. As I was saying, I had planned to gild the lily of the arguments th...

Paul Rowen | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) Section 14 of the Police and Justice Act 2006 would require carriers to provide information on trave...

Phil Woolas | 496 c238 (Link to this contribution) We believe that that is part of the answer. Implicit in the hon. Gentleman's suggestion is an accept...

Sammy Wilson | 496 c231 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister has missed the point. The new clause is really a request for a reciprocal arran...

Phil Woolas | 496 c230-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that my hon. Friend did not listen to what I, in fact, said rather than what he has assum...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c230 (Link to this contribution) None of this material that the Minister is rehearsing contradicts what I said. If he reads the Offic...

Neil Gerrard | 496 c232 (Link to this contribution) Can my hon. Friend respond to the question that I asked about what could be in the commencement orde...

Phil Woolas | 496 c232 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that comment. I believe that I said on Second reading—I cer...

Robert Key | 496 c232 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister on behalf of members of the Malaya league community in Salisbury, who make a ve...

Phil Woolas | 496 c231-2 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry the hon. Gentleman thinks I have missed the point, but I think I have exactly addressed t...

Chris Huhne | 496 c234 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, given the Minister's assurances, we withdraw new ...

Phil Woolas | 496 c232-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can. Let me explain. This is a very important matter for many of our constituents. Amendment...

Andrew Mackinlay | 496 c233 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, Madam Deputy Speaker, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the clause, becaus...

Phil Woolas | 496 c195 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a very important point. In questioning the 70 million figure as an extrapol...

Keith Vaz | 496 c251 (Link to this contribution) I raised with the Home Secretary a matter that I had raised with his predecessor. Of course the Mini...

Chris Huhne | 496 c256-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Abolishing the traumatic experience of dawn raids is a key concern of the L...

Lord Deben | 496 c229 (Link to this contribution) I wish merely to support the new clause presented by the hon. Member for Thurrock (Andrew Mackinlay)...

Pete Wishart | 496 c195-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames). There is no doubt that he br...

Phil Woolas | 496 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for asking me that question, because it allows me to s...

Keith Vaz | 496 c254 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister know what they are?

Paul Rowen | 496 c246 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's point about the argument not having been made. Given that 15.4 million...

Phil Woolas | 496 c247 (Link to this contribution) I do not wish to reopen the argument, but our proposals to amend the common travel area are based on...

Keith Vaz | 496 c241 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would like to hear what the Minister has to say, so I shall be brief in supporting the hon. ...

Damian Green | 496 c224-5 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I completely agree with my hon. Friend. Genuine concerns arise about the type of activities ...

Speaker | 496 c240 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct, but they come later in the proceedings.

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Republic of Ireland

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Highly skilled migrant programme

Common travel area

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