Immigration Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendment 84, and Governmen...

The Government remain strongly of the view that specifying a maximum time limit for immigration d...

Among the most vulnerable children are the 10,000 who have gone missing. Will the Minister clarif...

I will come on to the issue of registration, which has been highlighted by a number of people, in...

I understand that the Government are in a difficult position, although I supported the Prime Mini...

We certainly recognise the pressures that Greece and Italy, for example, have been under, and I w...

I have listened carefully to what the Minister has said and have looked closely at the amendments...

I recognise the hon. Gentleman’s point, and if he will bear with me I will come on to address it....

I will give way to the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz).

I warmly welcome what the Minister has said today. The Government have moved a considerable way a...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making the point about the messages that we send ou...

The right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz) mentioned funding. Is the Minister prepared ...

Obviously, existing funding is provided for unaccompanied asylum seeking children; the Home Offic...

Does the Minister accept, however, that vulnerability does not necessarily end on a child’s 18th ...

I do not want to conflate, as the right hon. Gentleman seems to be doing, those who claim asylum ...

Let me start by discussing unaccompanied refugee children in Europe and reminding the House that ...

I am disappointed to hear language of that nature, because the Government have not made a U-turn;...

I am grateful for that intervention. The fact remains that only last week the Government voted ag...

Reunification in France?

Reunification with their family here under the Dublin arrangements. The Minister has made it clea...

I also pay tribute to the Government for the immense amount they have done to help displaced Syri...

I agree that if children are to come to this country under the proposal put forward in this amend...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

On immigration detention? I have barely started. I really think that I should press on, as we hav...

Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that we should move to not detaining vulnerable people at a...

I am grateful for that intervention. On vulnerable individuals as described, I agree. I state aga...

I quite understand the difficulty that the Government face. As I am sure that my hon. Friends wil...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

If the Scottish National party would like to intervene, of course I accept that intervention, but...

Does the hon. Gentleman understand that in Calais tonight there are children sleeping in containe...

The whole point is that they are in safe countries. The criticism should be levelled not at the B...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman does not spend enough time in this Chamber for me to give way ...

Along with many others, we in the SNP have been arguing for months that the UK should take a fair...

I want to deal with the amendment that has received the most attention, which relates to amendmen...

On that point about the language around registered children—I, too, welcome the Minister’s respon...

It has been somewhat lost in the debate, but we should welcome the Government’s commitment to dis...

I strongly welcome the Government’s huge change in principle and acceptance of the Dubs amendment...

My right hon. Friend is making an incredibly powerful speech. She is right to say that this amend...

I agree with my hon. Friend that there is a lot of support and interest in this amendment, and we...

rose—

I will not give way because there is very little time and other Members want to speak.

Home...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

I will give way to the hon. Lady, who has not yet spoken.

Will the right hon. Lady outline the conversations she has had with her local authority about the...

I think the hon. Lady makes an important point. In fact, among the points I was going to make was...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will not give way because I am conscious that other Members who have put in a huge amount of ef...

Like many other Members of this House, I welcome amendment 87B, as a more thoughtful articulation...

Will the hon. Lady give way on that point?

I am going to be very brief, because others want to speak.

My second point is that we must ...

Seven months ago I used my first Prime Minister’s question as party leader to call on the Prime M...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I do not have time, sorry.

In January, the Government claimed to be supporting child refuge...

I am actually quite sad tonight given what I have heard, because there is a clear sense and deter...