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HANSARDImmigration and Nationality Application FeesIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr McCabe. I thank the hon. Member for Hackney South and Shoreditch (Meg Hillier) for securing this debate on immigration and…25 Mar 2021HANSARDAsylum Accommodation: Northern IrelandHome Office officials meet weekly with the Northern Ireland Strategic Migration Partnership to discuss intake, accommodation and other operational matters relating to asylum…22 Mar 2021HANSARDAsylum Accommodation: Northern IrelandIt is disappointing to hear the tone of the hon. Lady’s question, given that the Belfast City Council area is the only part of Northern Ireland to act as a dispersal area.…22 Mar 2021HANSARDContingency Asylum AccommodationDuring the pandemic, the number of accommodated asylum seekers has increased, because we have not been able to move people on from accommodation and continuing claims. That means…22 Mar 2021HANSARDImmigration: Hong KongOn 31 January, we launched a bespoke immigration route for British national overseas status-holders and their households, allowing them to come to the UK to live, work and study…22 Mar 2021HANSARDImmigration: Hong KongWe appreciate my hon. Friend’s warm endorsement of the work done to create this route, which will give many millions the opportunity to make their home here in our United Kingdom,…22 Mar 2021HANSARDContingency Asylum AccommodationWe expect the highest standards from our providers and have instructed them to make improvements following the interim report from the independent chief inspector. In future, a…22 Mar 2021HANSARDContingency Asylum AccommodationWe can see from the contribution Glasgow makes that a range of support is already available. As I say, we want to end the use of contingency accommodation. It is just…22 Mar 2021HANSARDContingency Asylum AccommodationI note the hon. Member’s points, but I have already outlined that we expect the highest standards from providers and have instructed them to make improvements. A core part of…22 Mar 2021HANSARDContingency Asylum AccommodationAs I have already outlined, we have instructed our providers to make improvements, and we want to reduce the use of contingency accommodation through fixing our broken asylum…22 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Extradition Act 2003 (Codes of Practice and Transit Code of Practice) Order 2021I thank the shadow Minister for the overall constructive tone of the comments that he has just made, and for the general support that he provides as shadow Minister to work in…17 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Extradition Act 2003 (Codes of Practice and Transit Code of Practice) Order 2021We are not proposing to do a trade deal with one or two countries, that is for sure. To reassure the Committee, we would not allow transit if, for example, the death penalty may…17 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Extradition Act 2003 (Codes of Practice and Transit Code of Practice) Order 2021I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the draft Extradition Act 2003 (Codes of Practice and Transit Code of Practice) Order 2021. It is a pleasure to serve under your…17 Mar 2021HANSARDRelease under Investigation: Metropolitan PoliceThe Bill will reform the pre-charge bail process and remove some of the disincentives against it that we now believe are inappropriate, or have created unintended consequences.…16 Mar 2021HANSARDRelease under Investigation: Metropolitan PoliceIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Southend West (Sir David Amess) for securing the debate. It is always a…16 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021First, one of the most common ways of creating identities at the moment is to forge outdated paper certificates, hence why we are keen to move away from paper certificates, which…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021I will not now, but I will cover in writing the points about the baby loss review and about coroners and stillbirth—that is perhaps a more appropriate way to update my hon.…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021I will give way once more, and then I will make some more progress.10 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021The hon. Member will know that one reason we are moving to a digital system, away from paper, is that paper is far easier to forge or produce copies of, particularly in the modern…10 Mar 2021HANSARDDraft Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021Once we get beyond 4 May, the paper registers will close. Effectively, certificate books will then need to be returned to the GRO to register the final weddings that have taken…10 Mar 2021