Nationality and Borders Bill

First, I thank the hundreds of constituents who have written to me asking me to oppose the Bill, ...

The Nationality and Borders Bill is important and necessary legislation to address the growing pr...

In 1933, Einstein lived in Norfolk, guarded by local residents and a Conservative MP to prevent a...

This Bill is incredibly wide-ranging, and I associate myself with the remarks made by my hon. Fri...

Disturbing, dysfunctional and destructive—three of the most commonly used words by my constituent...

I welcome the opportunity to take part in this important debate. Many contributions during yester...

I appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this debate. One benefit of having it over two days...

I rise to support this Bill, which contains some sensible measures, particularly on regularising ...

I am proud to represent Sheffield, Hallam. Sheffield was the first place to call itself a city of...

I will support the Bill. I welcome the aim to establish a plan that will resolve some of the hist...

May I begin by wishing the Muslim community in my constituency of Airdrie and Shotts and across t...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Anum Qaisar-Javed). It will co...

What the hon. Member is advocating and what the Government have in this Bill is a criminal offenc...

I recall serving with the hon. Gentleman on the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU...

I would like to start by echoing what the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Anum Qaisar-Javed) ...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bristol East (Kerry McCarthy).

During the 20...

If the hon. Gentleman describes the people who seek the refuge of those boats—who seek that terri...

Because this Bill tells people that there are safe and legal ways to get to the United Kingdom, a...

Eid Mubarak to my constituents and all who are celebrating.

There are lots of things I coul...

Overall, this is a horrible and unnecessary Bill. The UK does not have a problem with asylum seek...

The 1951 UN refugee convention, which was signed by a Labour Government, was born out of the afte...

The subject of immigration is of great importance to my constituents in Great Grimsby. They have ...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me in this important debate. Like others,...

I welcome the opportunity to speak in a debate that has enormous implications for so many of my c...

Should nations prevent anyone from crossing their borders? We are all citizens of the world, so s...

Thank you for calling me to speak in this debate today, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to foc...

It is distressing that the Government are pushing ahead with this deeply disturbing Bill. A patte...

The Bill feels like a series of poor choices made on the basis of ignorance of the evidence, or m...

The reason we need to take action through this Bill today is not, as the hon. Member for Westmorl...

I call Helen Hayes.

3.49 pm

It is a great pleasure to see you in the Chair, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I rise to speak again...

Since I was elected to Parliament, one of the issues that I have been left in no doubt about what...

Even on its own terms, that will not work. There is not a shred of evidence in the world that tin...

I am pretty clear that the Bill is designed to do exactly what I said it is designed to do. What ...

May I say what a particular pleasure it is, Madam Deputy Speaker, to see you in the Chair today?<...

The hon. and learned Lady says that this Bill seeks to address a problem that does not exist, so ...

When I said that the Bill addresses a problem that does not exist, one of the previous speakers t...

My hon. and learned Friend is making the point very eloquently. So many people who come here thro...

What I would say to them, what the Scottish Government have said to them and what my party says t...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I am sorry, but I am coming to an end.

I call Alyn Smith.

4.10 pm

It is a pleasure to see you in your place, Madam Deputy Speaker; thanks for the slight jolt, as I...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman for being a little more accommodating than the hon....

The Minister, I presume inadvertently, actually makes my point for me. Scotland, under my party’s...

Is it not the case that the UK worked with the UNHCR in the refugee camps in places such as Jorda...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for making that point. I hope I have made it clear that there ar...

Order. I am changing the speaking time limit to seven minutes, with immediate effect.

4.17 ...

It is great to see you in your new place today, Madam Deputy Speaker.

I am not against immi...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Will he also reflect on the fact that 25,000 is more...

I could not agree more. What I keep noticing today is that Opposition Members seem to be pushing ...

The hon. Member makes a number of points that suggest the view of his constituents is the view of...

My constituents are very happy to welcome genuine refugees to the UK. We are taking them now, unl...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I am not giving way to the hon. and learned Lady. I have already given way twice.

Far t...

I call Richard Burgon.

4.27 pm

It is a great pleasure to welcome as Deputy Speaker one of my former neighbours from Cross Gates ...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that some of the most vulnerable and needy people are from Syria? W...

It appears that there is a twitching of a conscience one Bench back from the Tory Front Bench. If...

To bring things a little more up to date, if we are looking at the statistics about who is in the...

The hon. Gentleman makes an important point and brings some reality to this debate. This reaction...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I will not give way. I will only give way if the hon. Gentleman wants to stand up and say he ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I seek your advice. The hon. Gentleman has thrown the ...

Order. That is just a point of debate. It is not a point of order. Moving back to the debate, I c...

I would like to start by saying what neither I nor, I believe, anybody else expressing opposition...

Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that the Bill does still provide a route for the most vulnerabl...

No; I think it is just creating so many obstacles that it will make life extremely difficult for ...

The hon. Gentleman just mentioned that we need to know about organised crime. Is it not right tha...

With regard to serious and organised crime, certainly in Scotland, and I think through the NCA, i...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Member for the very informed comments that he is making from ...

I fully agree, and I am grateful to the hon. Member for his eloquent contribution.

Opposing...

I do not think that is what the UK Government are proposing at all. The hon. Gentleman opposes of...

If people have to be detained we have measures for detaining them, but in the main we do not have...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, not at the moment.

That tells us where the areas of conflagration are and where the are...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I have to make some progress.

We have to make progress, because it goes against the val...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, not at the moment.

That was followed by those who fled Ireland during the famine and, s...

This Bill, of course, reflects a manifesto commitment from the Conservative party at the last ele...

The House of Commons Library briefing on this issue indicates that, at the beginning of the centu...

I do not believe so, and I do not recall using the word “deluge”. It is undeniably a problem, and...

My hon. Friend is making a wonderful speech. He has made two points that I have sat up at. The fi...

I agree with my hon. Friend entirely. Having listened to the debate on the monitor in my office, ...

My hon. Friend has made a very important point about travelling through safe countries, but does ...

I do agree with my hon. Friend. It is a fact that people will travel, often by land, through seve...

Albeit remotely, may I join colleagues in saying what a pleasure it is to welcome you to the Chai...

I am conscious that there have been many contributions, so I fear that this will be slightly repe...

My hon. Friend’s description of the by-election in his constituency is absolutely typical. Is it ...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. I have a lot of respect for the hon. Members for Enfield,...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Not at this point. I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I will just make a bit more progres...

Does my hon. Friend agree that when we have genuine asylum seekers, we want to make the system fa...

I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which leads me to the point I am trying to make: we...

rose—

I give way to my hon. Friend.

On the economic migrant point, did my hon. Friend see the reports in the paper yesterday about th...

My hon. Friend has articulated that really well. Obviously, the Bill is part of that wider jigsaw...

Where to start, Madam Deputy Speaker? Thank you for calling me to speak—I think.

As many Me...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No!

Our legal standing on the international stage relies on this concept. Are we not in the...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Well, okay, if it gives me extra time, I will take an intervention.

The hon. Lady is talking about costs and the costs of, as she says, locking up asylum seekers, bu...

Is it not funny, Madam Deputy Speaker, that all afternoon Government Members have been saying, “W...

There is an awful lot of talk about refugees. First, would the hon. Lady like to comment on the f...

On the hon. Gentleman’s first point, that is not true. We have just heard—he was clearly not list...

The most important thing is to have a sense of perspective. Everyone supports safe, legal routes,...

I completely agree, as I always do, with everything that my hon. Friend says.

I ask Conserv...

Will my hon. Friend give away?

I want to come on to my last point, and I do not get an extra minute.

The Home Secretary se...

I have listened to the debate over the two days and the best thing for us all individually to do ...

Compassion and robustness go hand in hand when it come to the way in which we manage our borders....

It is an honour and a privilege to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pi...

I find it interesting that Labour Members are not here today. They throw odd comments over the vi...

It is almost like they are creating another argument for the Online Safety Bill. They want to ins...

Does my hon. Friend agree that when Labour Members point at us and imply that we are racist, they...

I could not agree with my hon. Friend any more; he puts it far more succinctly than I possibly co...

I am thinking of the clock entirely, but I would like to explore the serious point that my hon. F...

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. We are seeing a party that wants to fight the deportation...

We have heard from the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuart C. McD...

My hon. Friend gets very much to the crux of the problem. I am not going to talk about what thres...

That abuse is not limited to people smugglers. It extends to the so-called human rights lawyers w...

I thank my right hon. Friend for those meaningful comments. I was not going to touch on that matt...

May I elaborate on that point? As a former member of the Bar, I struggle to criticise members of ...

I thank my hon. and, perhaps, learned Friend for his further comments. As I said earlier, this go...

Order. The wind-ups will begin at 6.36 pm, and by my reckoning, because there were two late addit...

I wish not only to speak about the Bill, but to describe the type of Bill that I would like it to...

The hon. Gentleman is making a good point about religious persecution. Does he agree that sometim...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I agree with her.

The Minister knows that I hav...

I thank Mr Shannon for his co-operation, but the Clerk informs me that trauma management is one o...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shan...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Darlington (Peter Gibson). As my hon. Fr...

Good luck winning back Newcastle!

Yes, indeed.

To conclude, the British people have repeatedly voted, most recently in 2019, ...

Since I was elected in 2019, one thing many of my constituents have told me they want to see is t...

I am slightly disappointed: not only do I not get nine minutes to speak, but there are no Opposit...

It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for North Norfolk (Duncan Baker).

I wil...

There are 13 minutes before the wind-ups and there are three speakers left, so if you all speak f...

As ever, it is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Paul Bristow), wh...

Does my hon. Friend agree that often the fee paid is only the down payment to a life of modern sl...

I completely agree with my right hon. Friend. There was a very interesting report in, I think, Th...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Dehenna Davison). In Ip...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for working so hard to get all colleagues in.

The issue of ou...

Order. I am sorry, Andrew, we have to leave it there.

6.36 pm

We have had a lively debate, and I want to pay tribute to the many excellent speeches made on thi...

The hon. Gentleman has said twice that the Bill was rushed, but we are now at the end of the seco...

The hon. Member misunderstands me. It is the process of the Bill getting here that has been rushe...

The Bill has seven placeholder clauses—something I have never seen before—so the House will not s...

The hon. Member makes an excellent point.

Less than a week ago, we had hon. Members rightly...

If France will not take people, does the hon. Gentleman agree with the proposal in the Bill that ...

The hon. Member is running roughshod over international law. I would be interested to see which t...

Does the hon. Member accept that the basic principle of asylum is that people should claim asylum...

I invite the right hon. Member to read the refugee convention and he will find there what the act...

It is wrong to say that there is no difference between somebody who has broken the law by coming ...

Criminalising people who have come to this country irrespective of what they have left behind mak...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am conscious of time. I have to sit down in three minutes.

The Law Society of England and...

I thank all Members who have spoken in this extremely thorough two-day debate.

The public e...

The Minister talks of what the public expect, but one thing I do not think they would expect is f...

The hon. Gentleman mentions Syrians fleeing war crimes. Our resettlement programme has principall...

rose—

rose—

I will give way in a moment. There is no worse example of that than the small boats crossing the ...

I am delighted that my hon. Friend has brought us this Bill. He deserves great credit for it, alo...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his very timely intervention and I agree with what he says. This...

rose—

I must finish soon. I apologise.

My right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The ...

The Minister has referred to Glasgow’s dispersal area, but there are also individuals who have co...

Where somebody claims to be, or says they are, under 18, if there is any doubt, there is already ...

I am anticipating two votes. Even though we have relaxed the regulations, I still urge Members to...