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Immigration Rules: Supported Accommodation

Urgent question on Wednesday, 16 December 2020, in the House of Commons, led by Caroline Nokes. The answering member was Chris Philp.
Urgent question on whether the changes to the immigration rules laid last week will reduce the numbers of asylum seekers in supported accommodation.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

686 cc274-290 

Session

2019-21

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules
Thursday, 10 December 2020
House of Commons papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Caroline Nokes | 686 c275 (Link to this contribution)

(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a state...

Chris Philp | 686 c275 (Link to this contribution)

This Government are taking action to fix the asylum system so that it is firm and fair—firm where...


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Caroline Nokes | 686 cc275-6 (Link to this contribution)

Coming into force on 1 January, the Home Office’s proposed changes to the asylum system have far-...

Chris Philp | 686 cc276-7 (Link to this contribution)

On the first question, about the asylum track, after somebody arrives—having come, we believe, fr...

Holly Lynch | 686 cc277-8 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) for securing this...

Chris Philp | 686 c278 (Link to this contribution)

Let me reassure the shadow Minister on one or two points. She concluded her questions by asking a...

John Redwood | 686 c278 (Link to this contribution)

Many people in the country share the views the Minister has just expressed; they are appalled by ...

Chris Philp | 686 c278 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend for his comments. As he says, I think these proposals and this appro...

Stuart C McDonald | 686 c279 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) for securing this...

Chris Philp | 686 cc279-280 (Link to this contribution)

First, as I have said, the people in this cohort will not be in limbo, because after a reasonable...

Edward Leigh | 686 c280 (Link to this contribution)

Sooner or later, there is going to be an appalling tragedy in the channel. The reason economic mi...

Chris Philp | 686 c280 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend, who has a distinguished legal background, for his question. He is a...

Yvette Cooper | 686 c280 (Link to this contribution)

The Government are about to end the only agreement that they have in a place for safe returns by ...

Chris Philp | 686 cc280-1 (Link to this contribution)

On the Select Committee Chair’s question about accommodation and support, I can confirm that it w...

Jack Brereton | 686 c281 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for everything he is doing to tackle illegal migration into this country. As...

Chris Philp | 686 c281 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend and Stoke-on-Trent for their work to welcome genuine refugees, including a...

Jeremy Corbyn | 686 cc281-2 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Minister recognise that this is a huge global issue; that there are almost 80 million re...

Chris Philp | 686 c282 (Link to this contribution)

I have already given the assurance about destitution to the shadow Minister and to the Chair of t...

Marco Longhi | 686 c282 (Link to this contribution)

My Dudley North constituents and I really want to place on record our gratitude to the Home Secre...

Chris Philp | 686 c282 (Link to this contribution)

I very much agree with my hon. Friend. I am afraid that, as it stands, the legal system is, as my...

Alistair Carmichael | 686 c282 (Link to this contribution)

I too congratulate the right hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) on obt...

Chris Philp | 686 c283 (Link to this contribution)

As I have already said, we have a very effective resettlement scheme, which takes people directly...

Suzanne Webb | 686 c283 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the immediate steps this Government have taken to overhaul our broken asylum system. Wh...

Chris Philp | 686 c283 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right: the measures in this set of rules are only a first step. The asylum and ...

Liz Saville Roberts | 686 c283 (Link to this contribution)

I, too, would like to thank the right hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Noke...

Chris Philp | 686 c283 (Link to this contribution)

It is not for me to tell the chief inspector how to conduct his inspections and his affairs, but ...

Stephen Doughty | 686 c284 (Link to this contribution)

On accommodation, Clearsprings Ready Homes, which I believe manages the Penally camp and has also...

Chris Philp | 686 c284 (Link to this contribution)

The contracts for the three service providers were awarded after a thorough process to evaluate t...

Felicity Buchan | 686 c284 (Link to this contribution)

I am aware that many asylum seekers are being housed in hotels in central London. Will my hon. Fr...

Chris Philp | 686 c284 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is quite right that hotels are being used in central London and, indeed, in other ...

Mohammad Yasin | 686 c284 (Link to this contribution)

On Christmas eve, the first asylum seekers are due to arrive at the remote site of Yarl’s Wood im...

Chris Philp | 686 c285 (Link to this contribution)

It is not a hostile environment. The accommodation meets the required standards. As I explained i...

Bob Blackman | 686 c285 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my hon. Friend’s commitment to preventing the criminal gangs from preying on the vulner...

Chris Philp | 686 c285 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right that speeding up the decision making is in everybody’s interests. It will...

Dave Doogan | 686 c285 (Link to this contribution)

This afternoon the Minister has sought to assure Members that the changes to this regime will pro...

Chris Philp | 686 c285 (Link to this contribution)

We are protecting asylum seekers from destitution at the moment. I have already pointed out that ...

Scott Benton | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

I know that both my hon. Friend and the Home Secretary are doing everything in their power to sto...

Chris Philp | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my hon. Friend’s question. We intend to introduce legislation in the first half of next...

Sam Tarry | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

During this transition period, the Dublin regulations have given the UK temporary power to transf...

Chris Philp | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

There is a robust screening process in place, via the single competent authority and the national...

Joy Morrissey | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the steps the Government have taken to deter dangerous journeys that put human lives at...

Chris Philp | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. European Union countries, including the ones she lists, are obviously ma...

Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi | 686 c286 (Link to this contribution)

These major, fundamental changes to the immigration rules were laid last week, incredibly, with z...

Chris Philp | 686 c287 (Link to this contribution)

The changes are designed to ensure that we can enter into agreements with other countries to repl...

Richard Holden | 686 c287 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister and the Home Secretary for everything they are doing in this area. Does the ...

Chris Philp | 686 c287 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We saw in our debate a couple of weeks ago some Opposition Me...

Chi Onwurah | 686 c287 (Link to this contribution)

As a city of sanctuary, Newcastle seeks to support those fleeing war and persecution, but all too...

Chris Philp | 686 c288 (Link to this contribution)

The Government’s policy, as I have laid out, is to do everything we can to make sure that where p...

Lee Anderson | 686 c288 (Link to this contribution)

The people of Ashfield and Eastwood are fed up with seeing illegal economic migrants leaving safe...

Chris Philp | 686 c288 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right in the sense that the system does not work currently in the way that it s...

Chris Stephens | 686 c288 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister will be aware that Glasgow has housed and accommodated asylum seekers for almost 20 ...

Chris Philp | 686 c288 (Link to this contribution)

Glasgow does accommodate a large number of asylum seekers. We work very closely with Glasgow City...

Richard Fuller | 686 cc288-9 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend the Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroline Nokes) for ask...

Chris Philp | 686 c289 (Link to this contribution)

The size of the immigration detention estate has actually shrunk considerably over the past five ...

Jim Shannon | 686 c289 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for his response to the questions so far. The changes explain that an asylum...

Chris Philp | 686 c289 (Link to this contribution)

I can assure the hon. Member that while the process unfolds of seeking another country to receive...

James Sunderland | 686 c289 (Link to this contribution)

Britain’s broken asylum system is currently costing the taxpayer over £1 billion per year. Does t...

Chris Philp | 686 c290 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, I do agree. In fact, some of those 60,000 are people whose asylum claims are not pending but...

Vicky Foxcroft | 686 c290 (Link to this contribution)

Lewisham is proud to be a borough of sanctuary, and the council has stated that it will not colla...

Chris Philp | 686 c290 (Link to this contribution)

The Government have been extremely clear that the rules on rough sleeping to which the hon. Lady ...

Nigel Evans | 686 c290 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for his statement and for responding to questions for approaching an hour. W...

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