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Health Measures at UK Borders

Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 27 January 2021, in the House of Commons, led by Priti Patel.
Statement on health measures at the UK borders.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

688 cc405-419 

Session

2019-21

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Priti Patel | 688 cc406-7 (Link to this contribution)

With permission, I would like to make a statement. First, I want to begin by echoing the Prime Mi...

Nick Thomas-Symonds | 688 cc407-8 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. We stand here ...


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Priti Patel | 688 cc408-9 (Link to this contribution)

I would like to make a number of comments before I come to the hon. Gentleman’s questions. I was ...

Huw Merriman | 688 c409 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. I welcome the evidenced and nuance-based approach t...

Priti Patel | 688 c410 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend raises some important points, and he is right. I stood at the Dispatch Box yesterd...

Joanna Cherry | 688 c410 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement and for advance sight of it. My Scottish Government ...

Priti Patel | 688 cc410-1 (Link to this contribution)

First, I very much repeat what I said yesterday about working with all the devolved Administratio...

Lord Brady of Altrincham | 688 c411 (Link to this contribution)

I agree with the Chairman of the Transport Committee, my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and B...

Priti Patel | 688 c411 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right in speaking of the sector, for which he is a powerful advocate...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 688 c412 (Link to this contribution)

Now we go to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Yvette Cooper.

Yvette Cooper | 688 c412 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I welcome these measures, but they do not go far enough to deliv...

Priti Patel | 688 c412 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the right hon. Lady for her question. First, it is important—and I come back to this poin...

Richard Holden | 688 c412 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. Marjorie from Crook got in touch with me today. Lik...

Priti Patel | 688 cc412-3 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I agree with everything he says about the Opposition’s fl...

Alistair Carmichael | 688 c413 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. Many of those who will be caught b...

Priti Patel | 688 c413 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to highlight the exceptional and sad examples of cir...

David Amess | 688 c413 (Link to this contribution)

I very much support and welcome my right hon. Friend’s announcement of restrictions at our border...

Priti Patel | 688 c413 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I understand why he raises the importance of regional airport...

Rachel Hopkins | 688 c413 (Link to this contribution)

I am very concerned about the continued threat of covid-19 to frontline Border Force staff at Hea...

Priti Patel | 688 c414 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Lady for her important question. Border Force staff are on the frontline day in,...

Robert Neill | 688 c414 (Link to this contribution)

I support the proportionate approach my right hon. Friend has adopted, but can she help me in rel...

Priti Patel | 688 c414 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Cases of medical exemptions and emergencies have always been ...

Kevin Brennan | 688 c414 (Link to this contribution)

I listened very carefully to the Home Secretary’s earlier answer to the Chair of the Select Commi...

Priti Patel | 688 c414 (Link to this contribution)

First, it is important to recognise that we do have numbers in terms of how many people are comin...

Steve Double | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

It is absolutely right that the Government take the necessary and appropriate steps to keep our c...

Priti Patel | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

I give my hon. Friend every assurance that we are working together across Transport, the Treasury...

Steve McCabe | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

How will the quarantine hotels be selected? Will the Home Secretary set a limit on how far such a...

Priti Patel | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

With regard to hotels and these measures, as I have already indicated, that work is under way in ...

Dehenna Davison | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for her statement. Protecting the British people quite rightly has to ...

Priti Patel | 688 c415 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Border Force is doing incredible work on the frontline; I am ...

Steven Bonnar | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

It has been widely reported that the Home Secretary called for tougher sanctions at the border th...

Priti Patel | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

I refer the hon. Gentleman to my statement and the measures that have been announced. It is impor...

Matt Western | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

The Secretary of State said that a layered approach has been taken since January last year, but w...

Priti Patel | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

I mentioned in my statement that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Departm...

Mark Harper | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the proportionate nature of the Home Secretary’s statement. May I take her back to the ...

Priti Patel | 688 c416 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend asks a very important question. In terms of permanency, we are living with t...

Clive Efford | 688 c417 (Link to this contribution)

Last week, the Home Secretary told a private meeting of Conservative party members that she was c...

Priti Patel | 688 c417 (Link to this contribution)

I refer the hon. Gentleman to the point that I made earlier that there is no single measure that ...

Martin Vickers | 688 c417 (Link to this contribution)

While I recognise the negative impact on businesses and individuals, I give my right hon. Friend ...

Priti Patel | 688 c417 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right because it is social contact—contact with people—that spreads ...

Natalie Elphicke | 688 c417 (Link to this contribution)

Last month, the World Health Organisation and the EU Transport Commissioner censured France for i...

Priti Patel | 688 c418 (Link to this contribution)

That is absolutely right. My hon. Friend, like me, will recognise the incredible work that took p...

Dave Doogan | 688 c418 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) wrote to the Home ...

Priti Patel | 688 c418 (Link to this contribution)

On Government health measures at the border, the hon. Gentleman will be very clear—I suggest that...

Damian Collins | 688 c418 (Link to this contribution)

As the Home Secretary knows, more than 8,000 people entered the UK last year by crossing the chan...

Priti Patel | 688 cc418-9 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to speak of clandestine entry. First of all, rules will apply,...

Layla Moran | 688 c419 (Link to this contribution)

In the week when we have counted 100,000 dead, the Home Secretary’s announcement is, of course, w...

Priti Patel | 688 c419 (Link to this contribution)

It is important to put this into the context of travel and the measures and checks that we have p...

Baroness Laing of Elderslie | 688 c419 (Link to this contribution)

I have now to announce the result of today’s deferred Division. On the draft West Yorkshire Combi...

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