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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I want to put something on the record before we vote. There is a specific meaning in law for the phrase “accommodation centres” under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)But they do not exist.18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)The new clause talks about accommodation centres, which do not exist. What does the hon. Gentleman mean by accommodation centres?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)New clause 36 seeks to provide a right of access upon request for Home Office teams working within immigration enforcement to asylum accommodation centres in order to visit those…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)New clauses 34 and 42 reprise some of our debate on the last group of new clauses, but they also introduce the idea of the visa penalty that, as the hon. Member for Weald of Kent…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)On that point we agree, so why was his Government so tardy at actually deporting foreign national offenders when they were in office?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I would respectfully say that the hon. Gentleman’s party had many, many years to think of a solution, and most of the cases that Opposition Members have raised today had their…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am not sure how much of the debate we could have heard, Dr Murrison, had you made that observation at the beginning of it. I do not think this Government wish to join Belarus…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Did the hon. Gentleman really mean “swarm” in that context? That is quite emotive language.18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I do not know what the hon. Gentleman had for lunch, but perhaps we should find out and get some of it ourselves. We can then all compete with the poet laureate and the virtuoso…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)The hon. Gentleman is being a bit mischievous. We are in the middle of an assessment of whether scientific age assessments work and at what level of capacity and detail we can…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)We are making a scientific assessment of how accurate and effective the methods are that could be used to make age assessments, and I hope to have some results from that work…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will deal with some of the broader points in my response, but we do age assessments. We do not simply accept—just as his Government did not—asylum seekers’ claims about their…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I have to compliment the hon. Member for Stockton West on his tie, since he raised it, and the hon. Member for Weald of Kent seems to have good taste in the colour of her jackets.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)Not that many!18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Dr Murrison—I suspect that you will be bookending our proceedings, if we make reasonable progress today. Does the shadow Minister…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I think everybody in this Committee—I am being very generous—thinks that it is important to protect the victims of modern slavery, and we have legislation in our country to try to…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)The new clause—the hon. Member for Woking spoke about it, although I am not sure whether he tabled it—would introduce a new service standard to ensure that the majority of initial…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)New clause 11, tabled by the hon. Member for Woking, is about giving asylum seekers permission to work in the UK. The hon. Gentleman said that that would cut welfare bills, but he…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I hope you, too, enjoyed a long and languid lunch, Dame Siobhain, after the way in which we overshot this morning’s sitting. This group of new clauses introduces requirements, in…13 Mar 2025