Illegal Migration Bill

On behalf of the Home Office, I pay tribute to those Border Force officers who nobly volunteered ...

Is the Minister really asking the House to believe that such an amendment would act as a pull fac...

It is a pull factor to the UK that individuals can work in our grey economy, which is a cause of ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way at the moment.

The vast majority of people arriving on small boats come...

Let me make some progress, and I will return to those Members who want to intervene.

It is ...

We know that, in 2021, 71% of asylum claims were successful, and that a further 47% were successf...

There are a number of points there. There is a legitimate point of view, as I have said on a numb...

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Let me make my remarks on this and then I will come to the hon. Gentleman. That issue is clearly ...

The Prime Minister could not answer this earlier, so perhaps the Immigration Minister can: what s...

I am happy to answer that question. We have consistently said that those seeking sanctuary should...

The Minister is in danger of taking the UNHCR’s name in vain, because it has issued a statement t...

No. The hon. Lady may not—

That is what it has said in response—

With all due respect to the hon. Lady, I met the assistant commissioner of the UNHCR and had this...

I wonder if I might assist my right hon. Friend on this issue of the UNHCR, because I too have se...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right on that. Of course, how we structure any safe and legal ...

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I give way to the right hon. Gentleman.

I am not right honourable, but I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. Let me take him back...

So far, we have been calling individuals and families forward in order of priority; those in Suda...

I wish to draw the House’s attention to another safe and legal route that exists at the moment, t...

I do, and I commend that arrangement wholeheartedly. I took part in what is, in one sense, a succ...

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If I may, I will make some more progress, but I would be pleased to revert to the hon. Member for...

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Let me make some progress.

I am also acutely concerned that we balance that with the very r...

The Minister has raised the awful case of Thomas Roberts. I have asked him repeatedly why it was ...

As I said in answer to an Adjournment debate on this issue, I have commissioned a review of all o...

Let me make some progress if I may.

We have been clear that the power to remove unaccompani...

On the face of it, I, too, welcome Government amendment 174 on the limitations to the removal of ...

What we do know is that this situation is fast moving and that the people smugglers are individua...

Nobody in this House would disagree that we need to stop the people smugglers, but I worry that t...

On the broader point, let me reassure the hon. Member that, as a parent, I, the Home Secretary an...

On the question of children, I think everyone agrees with the compassionate view that the Ministe...

The key element at the heart of the Bill is deterrence. We want to deter individuals, families or...

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I will give way to the hon. Lady, and then I should make more progress.

Does the Minister agree that it is deeply harrowing to learn of pregnant women arriving in the UK...

I do not want to see pregnant women placed in a difficult or compromising position. The scheme is...

As the Minister says, amendments 134 and 136 bring in the opportunity to introduce regulations fo...

I am not able to give that assurance today, but I will give it careful consideration and come bac...

The Minister has rightly singled out two of my colleagues with flattery to try to help him—but he...

Order. I call the Minister.

I apologise to my hon. Friend for not praising his long-standing interest in this issue and the v...

I will speak to my amendment shortly, I am sure, as will my right hon. Friend the Member for Maid...

That provision ensures that where an individual has presented to the authorities and the police m...

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Will my right hon. Friend give way on that point?

I am not going to give way to the hon. and learned Lady. I will give way one last time to my righ...

A Minister always has the ability to ignore an indication under rule 39, because there is no obli...

My right hon. and learned Friend is correct in saying that rule 39 indications are just that, and...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way; I will draw my remarks to a close.

I will not detain the House by deta...

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If Members do not mind, I will give way to my right hon. Friend.

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way. I wonder whether he can comment on a matter...

It is difficult for me to comment on remarks that are read out that I have had no sight of; frank...

I am going to draw my remarks to a close now, because all Members want others to have an opportun...

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I am not giving way, because time is very limited.

I have summarised the other Government a...

I call the shadow Minister.

On the Rwanda scheme, apart from paying £150 million to deport maybe 200 people, under the agreem...

My hon. Friend makes a very important point, which I will use as a prompt to also talk about the ...

This is an issue that the hon. Gentleman has raised before. As I said during the Bill’s earlier s...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but I am not sure I follow the logic of it. He s...

My hon. Friend mentioned detention, and a number of amendments have been tabled today on that top...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. She is absolutely right to highligh...

I understand why the Minister did not want to give way on this issue, despite saying that he woul...

I thank my hon. Friend for that powerful intervention. She is absolutely right. We are talking ab...

I intervened on the shadow Minister in Committee, and I found out that apparently the Labour part...

The cap has to be determined in consultation with local authorities and Parliament—that is absolu...

I would like the hon. Gentleman to reflect on the fact that when President Macron made his assert...

My argument is about a negotiation. We clearly have to do a returns deal; it is an important part...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because this is just nonsense. In the last ye...

I find the hon. Gentleman’s response bizarre, because there are some simple facts, which are that...

If the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May) does not mind me mentioning her, I remember tha...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We know from our long period of being in the European Union t...

I am sorry to interrupt the shadow Minister’s flow, and I wholeheartedly support him, as we have ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. Absolutely, the proposal is that there are a ...

If this quiet diplomacy was not as successful as the shadow Minister hopes and a lot of these ret...

As I have just pointed out, we are proposing, for example, a fast track for people from safe coun...

Order. We have had some very long opening speeches, and I have over 20 people wishing to contribu...

I rise to speak to amendment 4, in my name and those of my right hon. and hon. Friends. It is ess...

Despite the right hon. Gentleman’s best efforts, and he is a model of clarity on this, it is stil...

I will speak to the amendments that stand in my name and those of my hon. Friends. It is interest...

The hon. Member makes an interesting point, but the fact is that the medical professionals just d...

Is the right hon. Member going to disagree with the British Dental Association?

The British Dental Association, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, and Unison’s e...

indicated dissent.

No, the Minister did not do that. What he has done is push this on to those at the UNHCR, who say...

I am listening closely to what the hon. Lady is saying. When I was the Children’s Minister, every...

The right hon. Lady may not be as well-informed as she hopes she is. Every single local authority...

I will concentrate my remarks on amendment 4, in the name of my right hon. Friend the Member for ...

My right hon. Friend is making a good speech. The reality is that amendment 95 poses a threat. St...

My right hon. Friend makes an important point. I hope that this is an unintended consequence of t...

Order. I will now announce the result of the ballot held today for the election of the Chair of t...

It is a great pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Maidenhead (Mrs May). I thank her for ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the amendments she has tabled and the work she does with t...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Reputation is important in this area, and the approach ta...

Order. Hon. Members will have noticed that we are endeavouring first to call those who have table...

I rise to speak to amendment 184, which was tabled in my name and supported by my right hon. Frie...

Let us be very clear: demonising refugees will not tackle the cost of living crisis in this count...

indicated dissent.

The Minister has not explained why he has put forward that statutory instrument. People will stil...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

With the greatest respect, I have listened at length to the hon. Member for Stone and have yet to...

It is difficult to know in five minutes how to address the five amendments with my name at the to...

I very much agree with the points that my hon. Friend makes in support of children. Does he also ...

That is absolutely right. It is notable that three former Children’s Ministers are behind the mea...

What the former Attorney General said—I thought it an extraordinarily contradictory contribution ...

There are times when we want to disagree with a Court ruling. The Labour Government certainly did...

Edmund Burke said:

“Justice is itself the greatest standing policy of civil society; and an...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will happily give way to my hon. Friend, who I hope does believe in the integrity of our border...

I do. I listened to what my right hon. Friend was just saying about the problem of European judge...

I gave the example of a case that was not about immigration but about something as vivid as the i...

On that point, will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not because time does not allow.

The amendment I tabled in Committee, which has now ...

I am interested to know whether I am part of the liberal establishment. As a working-class girl f...

Is my hon. Friend as dismayed as I am by the Minister’s comment earlier today about cannibalism, ...

I agree wholeheartedly. I sometimes worry, on many levels, about the language used in this place ...

As I said on Second Reading, I support the premise of the Bill. Too many people’s lives are put a...

New clause 1, which stands in my name, would give those detained under measures in the Bill the r...

The right hon. Lady is making an excellent point. In fact, the Government should take this on boa...

Indeed it is.

We know that our economy is suffering from chronic labour shortages, and that...

I spent considerable time in the last debate addressing the European convention on human rights, ...

Before I begin, I direct the House to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, w...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point. Does she agree that part of this dog-whistle politic...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. It is worth reflecting on the fact that in this week alone the...

Order. Sorry—time’s up. I call Patrick Grady.

I am not sure I fully completed my hon. Member for Stone bingo card there, but we certainly got m...

I am very pleased to have listened to this interesting and useful debate. I rise to speak to new ...

I thank and commend right hon. and hon. Members from all parties for what has been a measured and...

I rise simply to say that the engagement we have had with my right hon. Friend and his Department...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend and return the compliment. It is important that we in the G...

Is the Minister aware of the fact that other SNP Members had put their names in for this debate b...

I find that rather unconvincing, given that so many were able to turn up earlier. It does rather ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not give way to the hon. Lady.

The fourth serious issue that was raised, principally...

Will the Minister give way?

I will give way to the right hon. Gentleman—sorry, he corrected me earlier: the hon. Gentleman.