Nationality and Borders Bill

I rise to speak to new clause 3, which would put into law a specific offence for trafficking for ...

I am very interested in what the right hon. Lady is saying. If we are to stop modern slavery, we ...

I thank the right hon. Lady for that intervention and pay tribute to her for, as Home Secretary, ...

I am grateful to be called so early in the debate. Mr Speaker. I will speak to my new clause 47, ...

On that point about convictions and the police, does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the poli...

I agree, in principle, that if we are to get more prosecutions it is vital that those who are pur...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a very strong point. Is it not one of the problems that victim...

Order. All I can say is that I have the greatest respect for the right hon. Gentleman, and if he ...

I am grateful to you for clarifying, Mr Speaker.

I will just say to the right hon. Gentlema...

The right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn) makes a pertinent point, but is not Jus...

I thank my hon. Friend for signing the new clause, and he is absolutely right. Justice and Care h...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a very good point, which illustrates the importance of the ava...

You would call me out straightaway, Mr Speaker, if I went so far as to enter into another debate....

I call the shadow Minister, Holly Lynch.

Thank you, Mr Speaker.

It is a genuine pleasure to follow the powerful contribution from th...

The hon. Lady is talking about an exceptionally important issue, the trafficking of children. Whi...

As the Minister will recall, we pushed for that time and again in Committee. The Bill makes no di...

I rise to speak to new clause 39, standing in my name and the names of the Chairs of the Procedur...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

With great modesty, I shall.

Can I just reassure my hon. Friend that, by the very fact that he is speaking to this new clause,...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. One other aspect of this is that it has given me the oppor...

I am sure that the House will be on tenterhooks to know, so I can put it out of its misery and te...

I am very pleased to be off those tenterhooks, although I am never very sure what tenterhooks are...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate and to follow the hon. Member for North East Bedford...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent humanitarian case against aspects of the Bill. Does he agre...

I fully endorse what my hon. Friend says. We will continue to make the case against this Bill, al...

It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East ...

While we are talking about Tatiana—she has been phenomenal in bringing cases forward and I pay tr...

I can give the House an update: birth has not yet occurred and she is watching today’s proceeding...

Numerous constituents have written to me with their concerns about the Bill. They fear that it wi...

I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few remarks about the amendments and new clause table...

I rise to support the amendments in the name of my colleagues. I also speak in my capacity as cha...

Is this provision not of huge concern to constituents in Glasgow South West and Glasgow Central—w...

Indeed; they may take a long time, and may not have the language, to disclose that very traumatic...

I am grateful to my constituency neighbour for giving way. She is absolutely right, as is my hon....

Yes. I am sure that like me my hon. Friend has read through the transcripts of people’s substanti...

I call Jeremy Corbyn, although just before the right hon. Gentleman rises, let me say that I know...

Sharpness is the order of the day; I will be very brief and very sharp.

This Bill is appall...

For clarification, we argued for the period as a de minimis, to give greater scope and time for t...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that explanation. Clearly his amendment is better than no am...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn). I remarked ...

It is an absolute pleasure to follow my hon. Friend, and neighbour, the Member for Glasgow East (...

The hon. Lady seems to be welcoming what Governments have done against slavery, and she says that...

I support any attempts to help people who are victims of modern slavery, of course I do. Some goo...

It is at the hon. Lady’s discretion, but I think everyone wants the Minister to answer the questi...

I will take your advice on that, Madam Deputy Speaker, although I am little unsure whether we wil...

We have had an excellent debate. Despite some of the comments I have just heard from the previous...

Will the Minister give way?

If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I have a huge amount to put on the record. I may take inte...

I am grateful that my hon. Friend has given the commitment to 12 months, but there are other elem...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his words. We will of course watch the progress of the Bill thro...

Order. Would the Serjeant at Arms please investigate the delay in the Aye Lobby? This is not acce...

Order. There is an unacceptable delay in the Aye Lobby. It is simply wrong if people are taking t...

This Division will be conducted in a timely fashion. I will not have it obstructed deliberately.<...

I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate, once again, the delay in the Lobbies. This is an anti-...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Is it about the Division?

It is.

Then I can accept the right hon. Gentleman’s point of order.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In view of the anti-democratic nature of the obstruction, is it ...

The right hon. Gentleman asks a perfectly reasonable question. I am considering the answer. At pr...

New clause 47 has been selected for a separate decision. I call Sir Iain Duncan Smith to move the...

Not moved.

Will the Serjeant at Arms please go and clear the Lobby?

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Does the hon. Gentleman’s point of order relate to the Division?

It does, Madam Deputy Speaker. Given that it is taking quite a lot of time to get through the vot...

If the hon. Gentleman had been behaving properly, I might have taken his point of order seriously...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker—

I am not taking your point of order. Sit down—[Interruption.] Sit down! I am not taking any point...

rose—

Sit down! I am not taking a point of order. It would have to be about the Division that we have j...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

Madam Deputy Speaker, may I echo y...

On a point of order—

Order. No points of order!

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. May I echo your remarks—[Interruption.]

Order. If the hon. Gentleman rises again, I will require him to leave the Chamber.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. It is appalling that we have seen these delaying tactics today.<...

I am sure my right hon. Friend will agree that this is the most important piece of legislation to...

Hear, hear!

Order. We will now hear the Home Secretary and the shadow Home Secretary.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will not give way further, so that the right hon. Member for N...

Will the Minister give way?

No I will not, because I want to give the right hon. Lady a chance to speak in the debate and qui...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way, because I want to leave some time for the right hon. Member for Normanton, P...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

Order. Sit down. The Home Secretary does not have time to take interventions, neither will the sh...

They do not like hearing the fact that this Government will seek to rapidly remove those with no ...

Unfortunately, what we have just had is a lot of rhetoric and slogans, not solutions, on such a s...