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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)It was interesting to hear the hon. Member for Weald of Kent setting out her argument articulately, and it was good to hear her say that she recognises that the last Government…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman could just assume that we are familiar with those two cases by now and either not bother citing them or think of some new examples to support…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Looking at the proposals set out in this new clause, how exactly is the hon. Gentleman proposing to calculate the £38,700? Is software available in the Home Office or in His…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Would the hon. Gentleman at least accept that the Albania returns were largely due to large numbers of foreign national offenders, who are a completely different category of…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I think that the hon. Gentleman is somewhat overstating the impact of the Albania policy. After the initial agreement was signed, we saw a massive spike in numbers coming from…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I wonder whether there have been any new scientific discoveries in the last seven months for identifying someone’s age that the Home Office would not have been aware of over the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. Madeleine Albright, the former US Secretary of State, was first a refugee in the UK, and she said that, in Britain,…18 Mar 2025HANSARDArm’s-Length Bodies (Review) BillThe hon. Gentleman is talking about Natural England and NHS England, which obviously operate only in England. Is he aware that in another part of the UK, Scotland, we have seen an…14 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dame Siobhain. I have listened with interest to the points made by the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire. We need to go back…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)On the timing of this measure, does our experience not show us that it is better to do these things in advance rather than later, when migrants come out of the woodwork having…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman agree that what is causing that huge bill is not the fact that people cannot work, but that they are waiting for a decision? They are stuck in backlog, but…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman accept that it is the same dynamic as the Rwanda programme? If we are offering only 1% of people safe routes, it is the same as saying to 1% of people that…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Because the Bill is about border policy and asylum policy, which have very little to do with visas, migration and the running of the immigration system. I do not think this…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I admire the hon. Gentleman’s forthrightness in putting forward his argument. I have thought about this issue for a long time. Two cantankerous Scotsmen talking about their…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I do not think it is the state of the Scottish health service that is attracting people to Scotland. Other Members are seeing what it is like dealing with the Scottish nationalist…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)Like the Safety of Rwanda Act clause, this clause is an inevitability, because it was clear from the outset that these sections of the Illegal Migration Act were never going to…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Stuart, especially after we have had such an interesting debate with some very thoughtful contributions. I will respond to some…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)Does the hon. Lady accept that there is a fifth option? Just because someone does not have the right to be in the UK, it does not mean that they do not have the right to go to any…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)But they could.11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)Is my hon. Friend also aware that under the previous Government, the Home Office tried to secure additional detention estate for asylum seekers but catastrophically failed to do…11 Mar 2025