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HANSARD Illegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend makes an important point. I hope that this is an unintended consequence of the Government’s amendment, but I fear, given that they tabled it, that they knew…26 Apr 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend has been generous in giving way, and I must apologise to the Home Secretary, because I think I referred to the Immigration Minister as Secretary of State…26 Apr 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will focus on an aspect of this Bill that the hon. Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) touched on in her references to trafficking and modern slavery, covered in…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will refer to that issue myself later on, because the Government have not thought through the implications for the numbers of…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to the hon. Lady for pointing that out, because I had not seen that letter, as it happens, but I am not surprised that those who are working directly in the field…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe hon. Gentleman says that we have spent the past five or six years destroying our relationship with France. Perhaps he might like to reduce that by—I think—two.28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI wonder if my right hon. Friend would clarify one point. He just said that the Government will act to deal with all people who have come here illegally. That is not what the Bill…28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWill my right hon. Friend give way?28 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way and for repeating the figures that have been set out previously. The fact that the number of referrals to the national…28 Mar 2023HANSARDEngagementsrose—22 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI wonder if my right hon. and learned Friend would make a point of clarification. She has implied that people will be unable to claim asylum in the UK and will be removed…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. I am also grateful for the kind comments that she made about me in an interview at the weekend regarding modern slavery work.…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to the right hon. Lady, but does she not accept that, between the late 1990s and the early 2000s, when Labour was in government, the number of asylum cases that were…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillHaving been Home Secretary for six years I understand the pressures to deal with illegal migration. In my day, people were getting into the backs of lorries and the backs of cars…13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his work and his recognition of the difference between people smuggling and human trafficking. It is imperative that we use…13 Mar 2023HANSARD Independent Public AdvocateI thank my right hon. Friend for bringing this statement to the House today and welcome the decision to introduce an independent public advocate, which was of course a commitment…01 Mar 2023HANSARDTributes to Baroness BoothroydIt is with great sadness that all of us will rise today to pay tribute to the late Baroness Boothroyd, and our condolences are with her family and friends. To go from high-kicking…28 Feb 2023HANSARD Northern Ireland ProtocolLet me first associate myself with the remarks made by both my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition about Baroness Boothroyd—an outstanding…27 Feb 2023HANSARDHillsborough Families Report: National Police ResponseThe apology from the police is, of course, welcome, but it would have been far better for them to have done their job properly on that fateful April day, 34 years ago. If they had…01 Feb 2023HANSARD Business of the HouseThe Modern Slavery Act 2015 states that the Secretary of State must appoint an independent anti-slavery commissioner, but the post has been vacant since the excellent Sara…26 Jan 2023