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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)I welcome the opportunity to speak to amendment 19 and new clause 23. I thank the hon. Member for Hornsey and Wood Green (Catherine West), who tabled the amendment, and the hon.…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the future system is intended to be introduced from 2021 and of my commitment to achieving a deal with the EU that is supported by…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank hon. Members for raising important issues linked to Irish citizens. It is important to recognise that British and Irish citizens have enjoyed a particular status and…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)I absolutely will, Mr Stringer. I wanted to make the point, as the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston said herself, that employment is an important route to integration. She…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)Notwithstanding the brief contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for Chatham and Aylesford, the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston invites me to delve into the detail,…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)As I said in response to the amendments tabled by the hon. Members for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East and for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, the clause will protect…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)My hon. Friend is right to point out that the new clauses relate only to the EEA. Our future immigration system, which will undoubtedly be the subject of much debate, will have to…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)Through the EU settled status scheme, we have provided people with the mechanism via which to demonstrate that. I have confidence in the mechanism. I recognise the challenges,…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I disagree. If we look back to the Immigration Act 1971—I have become quite familiar with that Act over the past year in this job—it put the right of the people of the Windrush…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. If we have learned one thing from Windrush—and I sincerely hope we have learned many—it is that a declaratory system that does not…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)A good number of useful and interesting points were raised by hon. Members. I just want to start by correcting one point made by the hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton who said it…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)This is an opportunity for Members to express their views about the future immigration system. Far from giving the game away, the White Paper is an opportunity, and we have said…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Gentleman will be aware that he just lost a Division on that matter, but I am sure we will return to it on Report. He may consider his drafting to be better than that of…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)My hon. Friend is right to emphasise that point, and that is absolutely the case in Northern Ireland. We take the provisions of the Belfast agreement very seriously indeed. This…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank hon. Members for raising important issues linked to Irish citizens. It is important to recognise that British and Irish citizens have enjoyed a particular status and…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)Opposition Members never, I think, let me get away with anything without proper scrutiny. The hon. Lady knows that I want to see the withdrawal agreement Bill passed. That is an…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)There is a terrible phrase, which I really dislike using: “statutory excuse”. If an employer has seen evidence—an EU passport or ID card—that indicates that somebody has the right…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I think I responded to that point a few moments ago. We do not consider there to be a risk that the power could be used to change immigration legislation for non-EU nationals in…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)Clause 3 is minor and technical in nature, but it is important for the implementation of the Bill and to ensure that we have a fully functioning statute book. Subsection (1)…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for Stretford and Urmston for providing the Committee with the opportunity to discuss the amendment, which concerns personal care assistants and…26 Feb 2019