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HANSARDPalestine Action Protests: ArrestsI do not think I can be any clearer to the House. The proscription order was passed by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons and in this House, and it is very clear.…23 Jul 2025HANSARDPalestine Action Protests: ArrestsAs I have said to the House, both at the time of the proscription order going through this House but also now, peaceful protest around the issue of Palestine is entirely…23 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityThe key to that objective, which I share, is speeding up the asylum claims process. Therefore, the Government have invested in roughly 1,000 further individuals who are helping to…23 Jul 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal ActivityI am grateful to the noble Lord for his question. I hope that I can help him. Essex Police have issued a statement: “There are claims on social media that Essex Police officers…23 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsWe collect biometric data. I have said many times in this House that, when I was last a Home Office Minister, in 2009-10, we had identity cards and we planned to expand them…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsI cannot give the noble Lord chapter and verse on all that detail in the half a minute that I have to answer his question, but I can say that 35,000 failed asylum seekers who came…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsThe noble Lord is absolutely right that we need to reduce the anxiety and toxicity around this issue. I reassure him that, first and foremost, the Government are committed to…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsThe noble Lord is absolutely right. In April and May this year, the Government were involved, along with 50 nations across the European Union and elsewhere, in examining the drive…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsI am grateful to my noble friend for his comments. Through the agreement with France we are trying to ensure that those who reach the United Kingdom illegally by crossing the…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsI cannot commit to that, I am afraid, simply because the Home Office currently undertakes significant research on those very factors. Self-evidently, the English language is a…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsI am grateful to my noble friend. She raises a sector where there are employment shortages. One of the tasks of the Government in the employment and immigration White Paper is to…22 Jul 2025HANSARDIllegal Migration: Pull FactorsThe Government are committed to tackling illegal migration and the criminal networks behind it. We have launched campaigns directed at misinformation on pull factors and are…22 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationThe noble Baroness raises a very important point on some of the pull factors and the illegal grey market and black market in employment. She will know that we spent a lot of time…17 Jul 2025HANSARDOnline Communication Offence ArrestsMy Lords, I welcome this debate. As of this week, I have been in your Lordships’ House just over a year and today is the first opportunity I have had to exchange views with the…17 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationThe noble Baroness is absolutely right. It is extremely important that we reach out to our European partners—they are still partners, although we are not members of the…17 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationI am grateful, as ever, to the noble Lord for his questions. I reassure him that the taxpayer is at the forefront of this Government’s thinking about the costs of this illegal…17 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationThe noble Lord raises a number of key points. As a Government, we are committed to our international obligations. The noble Lord mentioned the 1951 convention. As he knows, a…17 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationI am grateful to the noble Lord. Let me put him at ease. I am not having a bit of fun with the previous Government; I am imploring the House to understand what the pressures were…17 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationMy Lords, I am grateful for the welcome, in broad terms, from the Liberal Democrat Benches and for the cautious, guarded welcome from His Majesty’s loyal Opposition—who, it must…17 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBefore I let the noble Lord, Lord Jackson in, let me answer the noble Lord, Lord Horam, who asked how I know. I know because four people volunteered to go on the scheme. The…10 Jul 2025