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HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningIt is a pleasure to respond to this debate. I congratulate the hon. Member for Windsor (Jack Rankin) on securing it and thank all Members who have contributed. I remind hon.…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. Having sat in the Westminster Hall Chair many a time, I can report that in this Parliament it seems to be much warmer…21 Jan 2025HANSARD Asylum Seeker Hotel Accommodation: ReopeningI will be happy to, but let me finish apologising. I apologised to the hon. Member for Windsor in my response to the letter he sent me. It was not an ideal situation and it is not…21 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsThe Government are committed to reducing hotel use through reform of the asylum system, including through streamlining asylum processing and establishing the Border Security…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsI certainly will. We should also remember the £60 million the Conservative party wasted on RAF Scampton and the £15 million on a derelict, asbestos-ridden former prison in…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsI will take no lessons from the Conservative party, which spent £700 million to send four volunteers to Rwanda and left huge backlogs of more than 90,000 stopped asylum…13 Jan 2025HANSARDFirefighters: Occupational DiseasesMy right hon. Friend the Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention is looking at all fire and rescue issues and considering all possibilities, including potential…13 Jan 2025HANSARDFirefighters: Occupational DiseasesWe engage regularly with the Fire Brigades Union and we take very seriously the health and safety of firefighters, who risk their lives for our communities every day. The Home…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsIt is our intention to close all asylum hotels as soon as possible, once we deal with the backlog that we inherited from the Conservative party.13 Jan 2025HANSARDFirefighters: Occupational DiseasesI agree that this is an important area and that much more work needs to be done to consider effective contaminants and risks from the dangers that firefighters put themselves in…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsBecause of the size of the backlog we inherited from the Conservative party and an asylum system in chaos, with tens of thousands of people in limbo and very little processing…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsWe inherited a system where very few decisions were being made. We have ramped up decision making to over 11,000 decisions a month and we are dealing with the backlog, but…13 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsThey do not.13 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsYes. Foreign nationals who commit offences and are sentenced to 12 months in prison have no right to be here, and I can assure my hon. Friend that we will work tirelessly to…13 Jan 2025HANSARDAsylum HotelsThe fall of the Assad regime was a welcome development, given that he was a tyrant, but 5,500 Syrian asylum seekers are currently in our system, many of whom fled the Assad…13 Jan 2025HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise this issue. What the National Audit Office found in its report was not only an appalling process of decision making by members of the…25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical Questions—and increasing returns.25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsThere will be a huge drop of immigration-related national statistics at the end of the week.25 Nov 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsWe are trying to co-operate much more with local authorities so that we can deal with these issues, but ultimately the way to deal with them is to get the backlog down and get…25 Nov 2024HANSARD Asylum Seekers: Hotel AccommodationMy hon. Friend will be comforted to know that I am thinking of precisely those things.20 Nov 2024