Health Measures at UK Borders
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2019-21Chamber / Committee
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With permission, I would like to make a statement. First, I want to begin by echoing the Prime Mi...
I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. We stand here ...
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I would like to make a number of comments before I come to the hon. Gentleman’s questions. I was ...
I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. I welcome the evidenced and nuance-based approach t...
My hon. Friend raises some important points, and he is right. I stood at the Dispatch Box yesterd...
I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. My Scottish Government ...
First, I very much repeat what I said yesterday about working with all the devolved Administratio...
I agree with the Chairman of the Transport Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and B...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right in speaking of the sector, for which he is a powerful advocate...
Now we go to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Yvette Cooper.
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome these measures, but they do not go far enough to deliv...
I thank the right hon. Lady for her question. First, it is important—and I come back to this poin...
I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. Marjorie from Crook got in touch with me today. Lik...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I agree with everything he says about the Opposition’s fl...
I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. Many of those who will be caught b...
The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to highlight the exceptional and sad examples of cir...
I very much support and welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement of restrictions at our border...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I understand why he raises the importance of regional airport...
I am very concerned about the continued threat of covid-19 to frontline Border Force staff at Hea...
I thank the hon. Lady for her important question. Border Force staff are on the frontline day in,...
I support the proportionate approach my right hon. Friend has adopted, but can she help me in rel...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Cases of medical exemptions and emergencies have always been ...
I listened very carefully to the Home Secretary’s earlier answer to the Chair of the Select Commi...
First, it is important to recognise that we do have numbers in terms of how many people are comin...
It is absolutely right that the Government take the necessary and appropriate steps to keep our c...
I give my hon. Friend every assurance that we are working together across Transport, the Treasury...
How will the quarantine hotels be selected? Will the Home Secretary set a limit on how far such a...
With regard to hotels and these measures, as I have already indicated, that work is under way in ...
I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. Protecting the British people quite rightly has to ...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Border Force is doing incredible work on the frontline; I am ...
It has been widely reported that the Home Secretary called for tougher sanctions at the border th...
I refer the hon. Gentleman to my statement and the measures that have been announced. It is impor...
The Secretary of State said that a layered approach has been taken since January last year, but w...
I mentioned in my statement that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Departm...
I welcome the proportionate nature of the Home Secretary’s statement. May I take her back to the ...
My right hon. Friend asks a very important question. In terms of permanency, we are living with t...
Last week, the Home Secretary told a private meeting of Conservative party members that she was c...
I refer the hon. Gentleman to the point that I made earlier that there is no single measure that ...
While I recognise the negative impact on businesses and individuals, I give my right hon. Friend ...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right because it is social contact—contact with people—that spreads ...
Last month, the World Health Organisation and the EU Transport Commissioner censured France for i...
That is absolutely right. My hon. Friend, like me, will recognise the incredible work that took p...
My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) wrote to the Home ...
On Government health measures at the border, the hon. Gentleman will be very clear—I suggest that...
As the Home Secretary knows, more than 8,000 people entered the UK last year by crossing the chan...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right to speak of clandestine entry. First of all, rules will apply,...
In the week when we have counted 100,000 dead, the Home Secretary’s announcement is, of course, w...
It is important to put this into the context of travel and the measures and checks that we have p...
I have now to announce the result of today’s deferred Division. On the draft West Yorkshire Combi...