Nationality and Borders Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Government amendments (a) and (b)...

Mr Speaker, may I begin by joining in, on behalf of the Home Office, your tribute to PC Keith Pal...

This is, I think, at least one small point of agreement, but can the Minister explain why the ame...

The direct answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question is that we judged that the amendment tabled in...

I thank the Minister for taking the time to meet me and other colleagues with large ethnic minori...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for raising that point and for the engagement I have had with him...

I entirely support what the Minister is saying. Does he agree that citizenship of this country no...

I agree with my hon. Friend’s assessment that citizenship of this country comes with rights and r...

For the record, just so that we are all absolutely clear, we on the Government Benches, as elsewh...

My hon. Friend puts it better than I could. He has stated with crystal clarity the nature of the ...

The Minister will be aware that there is a massive range of legal opinion and that the opinion of...

We do not see a need to augment the Bill in the way that the hon. Gentleman suggests. A plethora ...

History suggests that the day will come when the hon. Gentleman’s party is not in government, and...

Any Government in such circumstances could amend the primary legislation to remove that requireme...

Does the Minister agree that amendment 6 is a huge slap in the face for all those people who play...

My hon. Friend and I have had many conversations about this topic over recent months and he makes...

The Minister may be aware that at present Opposition Members, especially Labour Members, are stru...

I certainly think that my hon. Friend’s constituents and mine, and people across the country, fee...

It seems that amendment 7 goes to the heart of what we are talking about today. Does the Minister...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend, who is a passionate advocate of taking action to addr...

Will the Minister explain to me how the United Kingdom can ever be the first safe country of arri...

We have many resettlement routes whereby people can come to this country. I have said this severa...

Will the Minister give way?

I am conscious that I need to make some progress, so I will continue for now. I have been quite g...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He talked about unaccompanied asylum-seeking childr...

I am not going to get drawn into listing all other possible exemptions to removal in that way, bu...

Coming back to amendment 10, which the Minister is grouping together, he just said that we alread...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. This is an area that he is very passionate ...

Will the Minister give way?

I have given way to my hon. Friend already and I am keen to make some progress, because I am cons...

May I clarify a point on the two-tier system to which the Minister is asking the House to agree? ...

Let me be very clear: there is absolutely no reason why any Ukrainian should pay an evil people s...

Will the Minister give way?

I have given way to the hon. Gentleman a few times and I want to conclude my remarks.

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way to the shadow Minister.

The Minister is being very generous. He gave detailed numbers on how many visas had been granted ...

I am afraid that I do not have those figures to hand, but we hope to be able to say more on that ...

To clarify the Minister’s point, is he saying that the opposition to Lords amendment 12 is on an ...

I do not accept the hon. Member’s characterisation of those remarks for a minute. My primary conc...

Will the Minister give way?

I have already taken one intervention from the hon. Gentleman and I want to conclude my speech qu...

May I associate myself with the Minister’s comments about PC Keith Palmer, who died in the line o...

I have spoken to asylum seekers who have told me about how children come to this country: it is o...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are many dreadful aspects to the whole story, but the i...

I completely agree that the situation with boats coming across the channel is wholly unsatisfacto...

I guess what matters is results and outcomes. The Government’s attempts to engage have clearly fa...

My hon. Friend is making very good points. Is it not the case that the only way to apply for asyl...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The whole thing smacks of a kind of bureaucratic trickery whe...

Appositely to the remarks of the hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown (Lloyd Russell-Moyle) about w...

I think that the right hon. Gentleman is referring to offshoring, but as we have seen, offshoring...

I am getting rather confused. The Labour party seems to be saying that we should not remove pull ...

What is required is a properly resourced and competent processing system, so that when people com...

Would the hon. Gentleman like to tell the House what safe and legal routes the then Labour Govern...

The safe and legal routes are not working properly, and they need to be made to work more effecti...

May I make it clear, for the benefit of the House, that the suggestion about Ascension Island is ...

I thank the Minister for that intervention.

Offshoring in Australia costs roughly $1 billio...

The shadow Minister has said that only 300 people have been linked to the offshoring. That is par...

I do not think we are in control of which messages get out and which do not. This is about result...

Only after outrage over pushback have the Government been forced to concede on some of the most c...

I congratulate and pay tribute to my hon. Friend and other colleagues who have led a passionate a...

At the start of the hon. Gentleman’s speech, I asked him what practical solutions his party had p...

We are supporting every one of these amendments, almost all of which contain practical suggestion...

I rise to support Lords amendment 11, but I want to start by thanking Ministers for their flexibi...

The right hon. Gentleman is making a good point. I wanted to highlight the difficulty for Syrian ...

I find myself in rare, perhaps unique agreement with the hon. Gentleman on that point. I am sure ...

It seems to me that the Homes for Ukraine scheme offers a model that could be used for all sorts ...

I do; my hon. Friend makes an extremely profound point. We are facing a crisis of a type we have ...

Does my right hon. Friend recall that, following the 2003 Hillingdon judgment that clarified the ...

My hon. Friend, a former leader of Hillingdon Council, will be more expert on this matter than I ...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green), with whom I agree en...

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that when this was introduced in Australia the number of individuals ...

I take into account all the evidence we heard on this matter in the Bill Committee—all the writte...

We both served on the Bill Committee but we seem to have a very different recollection. George Br...

Conservative Members can continue to try to upset local authorities in Scotland and achieve absol...

It is fact—[Interruption.]

The hon. Gentleman has made his intervention, so I am going to try to—

Order. Members should not make interventions when they are sitting down—end of story.

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Let me answer the intervention the hon. Gentleman made while he ...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way after mentioning Stoke-on-Trent. The leader of...

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is among a group of councils that has taken the Home Office to court,...

Just to help and to keep this short, I can tell the hon. Gentleman that our intention is to opera...

It is useful to hear that said from the Dispatch Box, so I thank the Minister.

Lastly, the ...

Order. As the House can see, a great many people wish to speak. I will try to manage without a fo...

I will be as quick as I can, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Unlike the Opposition, I take the view t...

It is right that I point out that Australia may not be using Papua New Guinea but it still uses a...

The one that I was citing was Nauru, not Papua New Guinea, which turned it down itself and refuse...

When people look back on this debate, I think it will be in the same way that we look back on deb...

As my constituency neighbour, my right hon. Friend will be aware of the number of asylum seekers ...

More recently, a calculation was made of the sort of financial contribution that would be made to...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making such a moving and significant speech about the plight of ...

I do not want to go over this too much, because other people want to come in on this debate, but ...

Order. My plea for Members to limit themselves to four-minute speeches simply has not worked. I p...

I am grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Disraeli observed:

“How much easier it is to be...

I think this is the worst bit of legislation that I have seen in 17 years—and there is some compe...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale (Tim Farron), even...

I am grateful for the constructive way my right hon. and learned Friend is making his case. If he...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that offer, which I accept with alacrity. I would like to bri...

I refer the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I have help from t...

My hon. Friend is making a very interesting speech. Does she agree that the UN refugee convention...

I agree—it is fundamentally wrong. That is why we should ensure that clause 11 is not included in...

I rise to thank the Government sincerely for amendment 1, the Chagos nationality amendment. I par...

I echo the words of the hon. Member for Crawley (Henry Smith); there is a small amount of consens...

rose—

I will not give way because I am out of time, and this Government are out of ideas and out of com...

I take a rather different view from the hon. Member for Glasgow North (Patrick Grady). I draw the...

Recently, I was sent hundreds of Valentine cards from pupils at St Dunstan’s Primary School in my...

With 20,000 Syrians, 18,000 Afghans, 100,000 Hongkongers and an unlimited number of Ukrainians—pr...

The Bill is anti-refugee to its core. It lacks basic humanity and represents an acceleration of t...

I welcome the Bill, although not without reservation. The ridiculous caricature that we just hear...

I am grateful to be able to speak in this debate. Many amendments were passed in the other place,...

To begin my remarks on a personal note, I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for having taken the ...

I rise to speak in support of Lords amendment 12, put forward by Lord Alton of Liverpool, who for...

I commend the Minister for the moderate and sensible way in which he introduced the Bill and I ur...

I am sorry I have only recently come into the Chamber; I was at the Westminster Bridge event. Wil...

I do not think that that is true. Actually, if we talk about our response to Ugandan refugees, Ho...

The wind-ups will begin at 12 minutes past 4, as the Minister has kindly agreed to truncate his w...

The events in Ukraine in the past month have shown how quickly millions of lives can be thrown in...

It seems to me that many of the criticisms that are levelled at the Bill are more matters of Home...

I rise to support the Lords amendments. The deeply draconian elements of the Bill have been calle...

Will the hon. Member give way?

No, thank you. Sit down.

We have already witnessed mass opposition to the very worst of the...

Let us be very clear. Currently, illegal economic migrants are entering this country across the E...

I call Alison Thewliss, whom I must ask to sit down at 4.12 pm.

I must say to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) that Glasgow is far more...

With the leave of the House, Mr Deputy Speaker. Let me begin by thanking Members for their contri...

I beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 22.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Lords amendment 24, and Governmen...

We now turn to the remaining amendments. Amendment 22 relates to our plans for conducting assessm...

The British Dental Association has highlighted specific concerns, on ethical, health and accuracy...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that suggestion. I know that he has discussed this issue with...

Does the Minister agree that the burden imposed by some of the risks inherent in uncertain age is...

My hon. Friend, who speaks with real experience given his time as a distinguished local authority...

The Minister said that in those cases, there would be an assessment of the risk to public order. ...

I recognise entirely the interest that my hon. Friend shows in these matters. If I may, I will ta...

My hon. Friend will recall that last time we debated these provisions, we had an agreement that t...

My right hon. Friend is passionate in raising the issue and has done so constructively throughout...

The key thing is whether the Minister is prepared to consider tabling an amendment in the other p...

My recollection of the earlier proceedings relates to putting the matter firmly in guidance, but ...

I support the points made by the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Dun...

The right hon. Gentleman definitely gets the tone right in highlighting the severity of the crimi...

First, would the Minister accept that great concern has been expressed by all parties in the Oire...

I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. The Under-Secretary of State for the H...

I understand the thought process behind these amendments, and I do not have any problem with that...

The direct answer to the right hon. Gentleman’s question is that people will still be able to app...

Order. Before I call the shadow Minister, I should say that I will need to impose a time limit, w...

It is a pleasure to be responding for Labour to this second group of Lords amendment to the Bill,...

To maintain the hon. Lady’s record of Conservative interventions that are somewhat supportive, is...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that helpful contribution. As we learn more about county lines gan...

I will not be very long, because what I am going to speak about is quite narrow and I know others...

Order. I think I will have to reduce the time limit to four minutes after the contribution from t...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Dunca...

I intended to speak on the first group of amendments, but I have a lot to say about the second gr...

I will restrict my comments to Lords amendment 40, which I originally tabled in this House with m...

Order. I am afraid that I have to reduce the time limit to three minutes.

I want the UK to be known as a place of refuge and justice as well as a place of opportunity and ...

I shall of necessity be very brief. First, I would like to place on record my appreciation of my ...

I wish to speak briefly in support of the proposal made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Ch...

This Bill is such wide-reaching and deeply flawed legislation that there is so much I could speak...

It is to be welcomed that there will be no north-south border checks on the island of Ireland. Th...

indicated dissent.

The Minister shakes his head and grimaces; I am not entirely sure why, because the idea is eminen...

Briefly, I have three points. First, this Bill is not an acceptable piece of legislation—it is an...

I am grateful to be called to speak again, as I spoke in the earlier debate. I think I have less ...

Again, I am very grateful to Members from across the House for their many and varied contribution...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. In yesterday’s debate on P&O Ferries, the Secretary of...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her point of order and notice of it. I have received no notice...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Yesterday, in the same debate on P&O Ferries, I said t...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order. I am sure the House will be grateful tha...