Illegal Migration Bill

I voted for the Bill on Second Reading because it was most emphatically going in the right direct...

I agree with my hon. Friend. In fact, that was demonstrated when we had the case of prisoner vote...

I could not agree more with my right hon. Friend. In that context, “takes into account” is what t...

The hon. Gentleman is, of course, expounding a very Anglocentric view of sovereignty, but I will ...

As I just said, I believe it is very important properly to protect genuine refugees. The problem ...

Unfortunately for the hon. Gentleman, the facts simply do not support what he is saying, because ...

That is certainly the case, but it is equally the case that we have 160,000 unresolved asylum cas...

I hope that colleagues will bear in mind the fact that I cannot put time limits on speeches durin...

I start by reiterating the point that I made in closing the debate on Second Reading: we on the L...

Is the hon. Gentleman implying that Labour Members will not oppose the Bill any further on these ...

I think I was crystal clear that we oppose the Bill. It will be entirely counterproductive and ma...

We have already come to agreements with international partners and we are signing more all the ti...

It may have escaped the hon. Gentleman’s notice that when the botched Brexit negotiations took pl...

Out of interest, the Labour party talks about safe and legal routes, so does it support a cap on ...

Yes, we do support a capped scheme for safe and legal routes, and it has to be based on prioritis...

The hon. Gentleman is talking about making more safe and legal routes available and has suggested...

I do not know how many negotiations the hon. Lady has been in, but people do not generally go int...

Does the shadow Minister agree that, when it comes to honouring statements that we have made, we ...

The hon. Member is absolutely right. The performance on the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme h...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Opposition amendment to which he has referred gives the lie to...

That is one of the many myths that the Conservatives peddle—my right hon. Friend is absolutely ri...

The hon. Gentleman must give up on his ridiculous argument that this Government have not taken sa...

Of course, the Ukraine scheme, the British national overseas scheme and the Afghan scheme—when it...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely scathing about the Bill, but he will be aware that, as recently ...

As I have just said, we support clause 51; I do not know whether the hon. Lady was listening. We ...

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I am going to make some progress.

A range of proposals have been put forward, including by ...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that so far the Bill comes with no children’s rights impact ...

My hon. Friend makes an absolutely valid point about the lack of an impact assessment for childre...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for the points he is making. I want to return to the point about ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. She points to a broader failing, and to a clear indication of...

Forgive me: I should have reminded Members at the beginning of the debate that when we are in Com...

Thank you very much, Dame Rosie. I rise to speak to six amendments that stand in my name and thos...

Do the French authorities know who the people coming over here to seek asylum are, or are they ju...

The reality, as the Home Affairs Committee found when we were last in Calais in January, is that ...

Is it appropriate, in the hon. Gentleman’s view, that former RAF camps are now being used and pla...

None of this is ideal, but when people arrive in their hundreds—one day last summer it was more t...

This is not just about illegal migration. The population of this country is growing in net terms,...

I think I have made the point that whatever migration system we run needs to be effective, effici...

I very much support what the hon. Gentleman says. Indeed, I support the need for such amendments ...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. I have drawn up new clause 13 and the accompanying amendments in ...

As ever, my hon. Friend is making an incredibly interesting and important speech. There have been...

Those four existing routes are country-specific for certain emergency situations that arose—for o...

Apologies if I was not making myself clear. Out of those 10 schemes in the last decade, four are ...

I think I have given my hon. Friend two examples. The family reunion scheme, certainly in the ter...

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I will give way to my hon. Friend and then I will finish my comments.

My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument for additional safe and legal routes, but the Bill i...

We are not going to eradicate people coming in boats across the channel totally, unless the Frenc...

Will my hon. Friend indulge me?

I will be very indulgent, but I know many other people want to speak.

I am very grateful. My hon. Friend makes the most important point in this debate. Judges and trib...

I am grateful for that intervention from my right hon. and learned Friend, with his huge legal ex...

I call the SNP spokesperson.

Do we support international human rights protections or do we not? Are we steadfast in our adhere...

The Minister has taken a careful note.

I notice the Minister is listening very carefully indeed.

Why is there a “compelling eviden...

I rise to speak to amendment 132, which appears in my name. Together with amendments 131, 133 and...

My right hon. Friend makes a fantastic point about this nation being hospitable and generous, par...

I certainly believe that, vitally, we will only have democratic consent for legal migration if it...

First, I add my voice to the concerns already raised by a number of Members about the lack of an ...

The right hon. Lady has rightly called for a number of assessments, but is the real test of the B...

Unfortunately, there seems to be a great deal of confusion in the House about the small boats iss...

I rise to speak to amendment 131, which stands in my name and in the name of colleagues. I am gra...

What the hon. Gentleman has just described is the process of getting an interim injunction in Eng...

The difference is that our domestic legal systems should not be subject to the findings of a fore...

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Let me explain myself more clearly. There are two things profoundly wrong with what happened last...

The United Kingdom has signed up to many international treaties. Why do we sign up to treaties if...

The hon. Lady is absolutely right that this is a treaty to which we have signed up. Under a treat...

One of the reasons why Winston Churchill helped to set up the European Court of Human Rights was ...

The hon. Lady mentions Winston Churchill, who of course had no intention for the UK to sign up to...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Devizes (Danny Kruger), with whom I agree about th...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I am delighted to give way.

And I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has given way. Does he not realise that we are in this...

I thank the hon. Lady for articulating the case so clearly. When all is said and done, we should ...

We in the Home Affairs Committee heard from Dan O’Mahoney, the clandestine channel threat command...

In which case, the hon. Lady would propose a Bill that aimed to stop the boats and undermine—

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I am trying to respond to the hon. Lady’s first point. [Interruption.]

Order.

If the hon. Lady really wanted to deal with the issue that she has just articulated, she would do...

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I am happy to take another intervention.

The hon. Gentleman is challenging the Government to pass legislation that requires the arrivals t...

I appreciate the hon. Lady’s intervention, but if she really wanted to achieve that, she would su...

The hon. Gentleman is making an important point, but we also need a system that is timely and doe...

Exactly. It is very easy to make the case that the Government are making when these are all facel...

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I will take one more intervention.

Is not an obvious sign of the Government’s failure the fact that only 22 Afghanistan citizens hav...

I thank the hon. Lady for making that important and powerful point.

Let us deal with anothe...

The hon. Gentleman is making an excellent case. On the question of figures, is this not part of t...

Yes. There are arguments for stricter or less strict measures for dealing with migration and asyl...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way again, sorry. I have taken loads of interventions and I am testing everyone’s...

It is conventional in this place to say that it is a delight and a joy to follow the preceding sp...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will happily give way to the hon. Lady, who is deeply confused about the difference between tre...

I draw the right hon. Gentleman’s mind to the 1970s when, in this country, a Conservative Governm...

Order. I think the hon. Lady means the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings, not ...

Is the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) really telling me th...

I never knowingly defend the Heath Government, so I will not accept any connection with their mea...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I give way to my hon. Friend, who is an authority on all matters of this kind.

When I arrived in this country as an immigrant in October 1978, I was bowled over by the hospital...

My hon. Friend is right, of course. In a sense, his comments reflect the remarks of the hon. Memb...

I fear the right hon. Gentleman may have misread the statistics, because it was Afghans who made ...

The hon. Lady informs many of her arguments in this place with anecdotes, sometimes with undue su...

It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dame Eleanor. It is convention to say that it is a plea...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

No, I will not at this stage; I want to develop my point. I have been a lawyer for many years, an...

Will the hon. and learned Lady give way?

I want to develop my point. I will take interventions in a moment. I do not want to take up too m...

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I will give way in a moment. I just want to develop my point and then I will give way to the hon....

I wish to reply to the hon. and learned Lady by saying that the sovereignty of the United Kingdom...

The Union between Scotland and England was freely entered into. I know that some people are under...

It is genuinely a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna...

Before my hon. Friend moves on, many countries have a cap per se on immigration. In Australia, Pa...

It is certainly true that the promise inherent in the refugee convention—an offer to the world at...

Will the hon. Member give way?

I am just going to make a tiny bit of progress, because I have not really started and there is no...

I went on to say that in the case of Paladi v. Moldova, the Grand Chamber said that a failure to ...

I take the hon. and learned Lady’s point. We are obviously adhering to that, but as a rule of the...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will in a moment; I am going to make my points.

On the first element of amendment 132, wh...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I am sorry; I will come to my hon. Friend in a moment.

My right hon. Friend the Member for ...

Is my hon. Friend going to give way?

I will give way.

I just wanted to point out, in case other Members of the House do not know, that Professor Ekins ...

No disrespect is intended, but it is clear that they are not frequently in court arguing these ca...

The hon. Lady and I do not agree about a lot of things, but I believe she has expertise in this a...

Yes.

The hon. Lady has expertise and has practised in this area, so I suggest to her hon. Friends that...

On the Government side of the House, I am probably the Member who has most recently been in the i...

This is a fascinating description of the three ways in which we can deal with this matter. One wa...

Order. I remind the hon. Lady that she should sit down when allowing an intervention.

I am sorry, Dame Eleanor.

To respond to my right hon. Friend’s intervention, it is dangerou...

To add to the list of our right hon. Friend the Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir Jo...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, which brings me to my final argument.

Wrenchin...

I wish to reassure the Committee that I will speak only to the amendments that have been selected...

My hon. Friend is making a really important point, which is not pertinent only to the small boats...

I agree. Some of us are still dealing with people from Afghanistan—people who put their lives on ...

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If the Minister will take the casework, I will take the intervention. That family need to be here...

The hon. Lady cannot trade in anecdote rather than facts. The facts of the matter are that the sc...

The Minister knows that that is not how the scheme has worked; he knows that only 22 people have ...

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Of course I give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I am looking forward to hearing what he has to ...

When we tackle illegal immigration, we are doing several things. We are attacking it at source by...

I look forward to having a debate with the right hon. Gentleman tomorrow about my amendment 293, ...

There is.

The Minister says there is. I am in touch with people right now, brave defenders of democracy, wh...

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I happily give way. Tell me where I can put them.

Since 2015, the UK has taken more than 6,000 Iranians directly for asylum purposes. What the hon....

The Minister needs to be clear about how those people have been identified. There are people toni...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will, if the hon. Gentleman will let me finish my sentence; I am sure he wishes to hear what I ...

I will attempt to answer on behalf of my colleague, the hon. Member for Devizes (Danny Kruger), w...

I hope that the hon. Member for Devizes is at dinner, because after having made that speech, I am...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will happily give way, and then I do want to come to a conclusion.

Is it not an unassailable truth that the fundamental principles that drove Churchill, the Conserv...

I think we have all expounded quite clearly on how that the interpretation that the hon. Member f...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I will happily give way, but then I really must bring my remarks to an end.

The thing I am having difficulty understanding is this. We signed the European convention on huma...

My colleague sets out the other, more pragmatic point that I would like to put on the record, whi...

Order. There are 14 people trying to catch my eye. The last two speakers spoke for 22 minutes and...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Walthamstow (Stella Creasy). I have heard your strictu...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I direct the House to my entry in the Register of Membe...

I am pleased to contribute further to the debate on this vital Bill, which promises tangible acti...

My hon. Friend is doing an excellent job of standing up for the people of Stoke-on-Trent and nort...

I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. I entirely agree. The people of Stoke-on-Trent abso...

That was a much shorter contribution, so things are looking brighter to get everybody in.

Bills of major constitutional significance are usually treated on the Floor of the House in a Com...

I rise to speak to amendments 131 to 134, which seek to strengthen the Illegal Migration Bill by ...

I rise to speak against the Government clauses before the Committee today and in favour of severa...

I have waited for a very long time to speak on the Bill. On Second Reading, I think I waited for ...

I rise to speak in support of new clause 10, tabled in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for ...

I rise to support the more than 50 amendments in my name and the names of my hon. Friends. We do ...

It is for Parliament.

As the Minister well knows, it is to be set in regulations, which this Parliament cannot amend, s...

I wish that I could say that it is a pleasure to speak in this debate, as I normally do, but I am...

Order. The hon. Lady needs to be quite careful with her language when she says “your Government” ...

Thank you for reminding me, Dame Rosie.

The Conservative Government have had control for th...

Order. I call Wera Hobhouse.

May I finish, Dame Rosie?

Yes, but the hon. Lady needs to stop referring to “you”, which means me.

I am sorry, Dame Rosie.

Many Members have spoken about various safe routes. Many suggestion...

I rise to speak to the Liberal Democrat new clauses 3, 4 and 6. I struggle to put into words my d...

It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I thank the Secretary of State for being here at the be...

Let be me clear: this Bill is inhumane. It is not an illegal migration Bill: it is an anti-refuge...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

No, I am not going to give way at this point; I have waited since 5.30 pm. Sorry, Bob.

Anti...

This has been an excellent debate covering the provisions of the Bill relating to legal proceedin...

I thank the Minister very much for giving way. He will recall that, at the beginning of the debat...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for looking out for me. It is understandable that there would...

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No, I am not going to give way again. The hon. Member has had his moment. I am pleased to say tha...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way to the hon. Lady.

I do not want to detain the Committee for too long, s...

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I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.

Let me speak briefly about the point raised by a...

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I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman—[Interruption.] Well, I will give way, because at one p...

The right hon. Gentleman is making good points about local authority consultation. Will he theref...

The hon. Gentleman should read the Bill. We have been debating it for the past five and a half ho...

Thank you for allowing me to speak again, Mr Evans.

What we have had today is an absolute d...

Order. I am anticipating four Divisions and I will try to assist the House as to when they are li...

In the light of the firm and clear assurance given by my right hon. Friend the Minister in relati...