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HANSARDAsylum AccommodationI can assure my hon. Friend that we keep all these issues under close monitoring, and we are doing our best to ensure that individual areas take their fair share of the burden…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationBy March this year, 15% fewer people were in hotel accommodation than at the end of 2024. We are saving money on the chaos that we inherited from the Conservatives, and we have…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationThe Home Office is not buying hotels. As for the hon. Gentleman’s constituency, there are currently 61 service users housed in his area, which is less than 15% of the quota, and…07 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum AccommodationAt the peak under the previous Government, there were 400 hotels in use across the country, at a cost of £9 million a day. Thousands of asylum seekers were left in limbo in those…07 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal WorkingWe are shortening the time that it takes to process asylum claims by getting the system that we inherited from the Conservatives working again. That is why there has been a 63%…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsImmigration centres are not used for indefinite detention. We can only keep anyone in detention in an immigration centre if there is a reasonable prospect of their removal. If…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsWhen people arrive and claim to be children, there are tests at the border to check whether we think they are children. If they are accepted as children, they are put into local…02 Jun 2025HANSARDIllegal WorkingClamping down on illegal working is a crucial element of our strategy to tackle immigration crime. Since coming to office, this Government have increased raids, arrests and civil…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsTo tackle illegal migration, we must work across borders in co-operation with other jurisdictions. Were we to leave the European convention on human rights, we could not work with…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere is an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that extends the requirement to check illegal working to the gig economy, the zero-hours economy and all…02 Jun 2025HANSARDIllegal WorkingEnforcement of the law is the best way to deal with this issue, which is why there has been a 40% increase in visits to check whether illegal working is going on, and a 42%…02 Jun 2025HANSARDIllegal WorkingI am reeling at the New Labour point that the Father of the House has made. E-visas basically give us the capacity to do a similar thing, and they are easily checked, which is…02 Jun 2025HANSARDIllegal WorkingWe are tackling illegal working by significantly increasing enforcement. That is why we have had a 40% increase in visits and a 42% increase in the number of arrests for illegal…02 Jun 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsAnyone who is in a hotel is someone who has claimed asylum, and whose asylum claim is pending. They are not necessarily illegal immigrants at all, and the hon. Lady should make…02 Jun 2025HANSARD ImmigrationWould the right hon. Member take a moment just to reflect on and remember the woman and small child who lost their lives today in an incident in French territorial waters?21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationDoes my hon. Friend agree that when we came into government, there were more than 18,000 foreign national offenders living in our communities who should have been deported and had…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationNo. Turning to legal migration, through the plans in our immigration White Paper, we will deliver a system that supports our efforts to reduce net migration and backs British…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationThe National Crime Agency has not said that about the Bill. In fact, if the right hon. Gentleman had listened to the evidence sessions at the beginning of our consideration of the…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI agree. Of course, the Conservative party also oppose all of the Bill, despite— [ Interruption. ] Well, Conservative Members say it is not true, but they voted against it. I do…21 May 2025HANSARD ImmigrationI give way to my hon. Friend.21 May 2025