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HANSARDIllegal Migration: English ChannelMy hon. Friend is right to point out that this trade is facilitated by dangerous and ruthless criminals. On activity with the French, we are working with them to prevent…09 Nov 2020HANSARDIllegal Migration: English ChannelMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: we need to do more with our French colleagues to prevent the embarkations. As I say, we are now funding additional gendarmes to prevent…09 Nov 2020HANSARDIllegal Migration: English ChannelArticle 31 of the refugee convention, to which I think the hon. and learned Lady was referring, makes it clear that the prohibition on criminalisation of entry applies only to…09 Nov 2020HANSARDUnaccompanied Child Refugees: EU Transition PeriodThe United Kingdom tabled a full draft agreement to the European Commission back in May, which included provisions for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children family reunion. That…09 Nov 2020HANSARDUnaccompanied Child Refugees: EU Transition PeriodGiven that the problems posed by cross-channel small boat crossings, as we discussed earlier, are unique, serious, dangerous—as we have tragically seen—and facilitated by ruthless…09 Nov 2020HANSARDMagistrates: Mandatory Retirement AgeMy hon. Friend is quite right. We are losing something like 1,000 magistrates a year as they turn 70, often very experienced magistrates who still have a great deal to offer the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDCourts: Three-tier Covid LevelsA huge amount of work has happened over the past six months to risk-assess different courts, working with Public Health England and Public Health Wales, and talking to union…03 Nov 2020HANSARDCourts: Three-tier Covid LevelsI echo the hon. Gentleman’s thanks to HMCTS staff and the judiciary and magistrates who have been keeping our courts running in what have been difficult circumstances. The cases…03 Nov 2020HANSARDCourts: Three-tier Covid LevelsWe have made a very careful assessment of the safety of all our court buildings. I am pleased to say that courts across the country are opening and operating regardless of the…03 Nov 2020HANSARDMagistrates: Mandatory Retirement AgeThe Ministry of Justice has been running a consultation on increasing the retirement age for judges and magistrates. The consultation closed on 16 October. Over 1,000 responses…03 Nov 2020HANSARD Draft Taking Account of Convictions (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2020I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Taking Account of Convictions (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2020. It is a great pleasure to serve under your…21 Oct 2020HANSARD Draft Taking Account of Convictions (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2020I do not propose to detain the Committee a great deal longer. On a time limit, I do not believe that there is one for the provision that we are discussing. On the performance of…21 Oct 2020HANSARD ImmigrationIt is a great pleasure to serve, once again, under your chairmanship, Sir David, which is, as the shadow Minister said, always infallible. I thank the shadow Minister for his…19 Oct 2020HANSARD ImmigrationI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way. He said that migrants are compelled to cross the English channel to claim asylum. I respectfully point out that they are in…19 Oct 2020HANSARD ImmigrationIn France.19 Oct 2020HANSARD ImmigrationLawyers are clearly entitled—indeed, obliged—to represent their clients to the best of their ability, but there have been examples, including what was reported by The Times last…19 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsI do not know the answer to that question, but I will go away and find out because it is a very reasonable question to ask. More generally, people who are subject to NRPF are…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsLet me finish the point and I will give way in a moment. The success rate for those applications is very high. The most recent figures, which I think the hon. Member for Halifax…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsThe hon. Gentleman has made it very clear. I am grateful for that clarification. As he has just alluded to, people who have indefinite leave to remain—people who are here…08 Oct 2020HANSARDNo Recourse to Public FundsI was going to come to that point. It is a very reasonable question to raise. Let me just finish my point, and I will come on to address the point that the hon. Lady has raised,…08 Oct 2020