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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an excellent point.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)France takes three times more asylum seekers than the UK, as does Germany. As I mentioned, the UK is 17th by population in the number of asylum seekers it takes. The right hon.…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I will speak to the three amendments that are in my name and the names of others, but I will start by speaking to amendment 104. No one on this Committee can fail to have seen the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)That is deeply concerning and shows that the Government have not learned any lessons from Napier. Before I come to the specifics of the amendment, I will first set out exactly why…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is right about those conditions not being conducive to being able to make a claim with any confidence or certainty. I was talking about asylum-seeking women. As we…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. She is absolutely right: even if rights are only restricted, that is not acceptable.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)My hon. Friend is absolutely right. These are vulnerable people, and they are subject to being exploited if appropriate measures are not taken to prevent that from happening.…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s comments, but it would have been helpful if that information had been provided beforehand, because we are still in the dark about what the accommodation…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)The clause does no such thing. It actually encourages people to make unsafe journeys and to contact criminal gangs, because there are no safe routes. That is the crux of it. If…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. Unless safe routes are developed, all that will happen is that there will be an increase in dangerous crossings, because that will be the…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms McDonagh. Opposition Members will not oppose amendment 59, and I will speak primarily to clause 3 stand part. The clause…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)It is deeply regrettable that British statutory law has long discriminated against children born out of wedlock, preventing British nationality from being derived from a British…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)On amendment 30, we want to make sure that the Secretary of State is required to take all reasonable and necessary steps to ensure that the right to registration under clause 7 is…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 29 in page 2, line 10, leave out “parents been treated equally” and insert “mother been treated equally with P’s father”19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I thank colleagues from across the refugee and asylum sector for their considerate and constructive scrutiny of all…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Citizenship, clarity and consistency in the law are essential, which is why we seek to rectify the position. The provisions of one Act…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I have heard what the Minister has said, but we could avoid going down the path of seeking to clarify the current wording if the same wording that was used in the 1981 Act were…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I will be brief. I entirely support amendment 8 and the associated amendments on fees. The starting point is rectifying the injustice that has been done, and fees should not be a…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I have some remarks, which I will try and keep as brief as possible. As outlined in the Committee, opening clauses 1 to 5 seek to close the important loopholes in British…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 4 also refers to an additional aspect necessary to align British citizenship and British overseas territory citizenship. The clause removes a requirement that applications…19 Oct 2021