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HANSARD No Recourse to Public Funds: HomelessnessIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. Let me start by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Hallam (Olivia Blake) on securing this debate…16 Dec 2025HANSARD No Recourse to Public Funds: HomelessnessThat quite rightly falls under any additional safeguarding issues and circumstances that apply to migrants, which can and will be taken into consideration. As I have set out, the…16 Dec 2025HANSARD Illegal Migrants: Unknown WhereaboutsI thank the hon. Member for Great Yarmouth (Rupert Lowe) for securing this debate, and I am grateful to him and all other hon. Members who have participated. As we have heard,…09 Dec 2025HANSARDChanges in Immigration Rules: NauruMy right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a statement of changes in immigration rules. Introduction of a visit visa requirement for Nauru We are…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Illegal Migrants: Unknown WhereaboutsIn public life, it is important to ensure that we are not sensationalising, or raising the temperature on such an important and divisive issue. That is precisely why the Home…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Illegal Migrants: Unknown WhereaboutsI thank the hon. and learned Member for his question. We do not comment on unverified leaks. After internal reviews, my officials have acknowledged that the interpretation of an…09 Dec 2025HANSARD Illegal Migrants: Unknown WhereaboutsI thank the right hon. Member for his two questions. On the first, I completely agree that the vast majority of those who come to this country are decent people. The sweeping…09 Dec 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI apologise, but I did not actually hear most of that. May I have that intervention again?25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI thank the hon. Member for his question, and I apologise for not hearing him the first time. Yes, this is a consideration for the safe and legal routes, and I fully agree that…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI will come on to that detail shortly. To warn the hon. Lady in advance, however, we are in the consultation period. Retaining a five-year settlement period for BNO visa holders…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI thank my hon. Friend for his important question. Claiming asylum is not illegal in itself; it is on the person to claim asylum in the first safe country that they travel into.…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI thank my hon. Friend for a very good question. Within the 12-week consultation, we will consider vulnerable groups. I reassure hon. Members that more detail is coming on the…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Edward. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Rushcliffe (James Naish) for securing this important debate, and I thank all…25 Nov 2025HANSARDImmigration Reforms: Humanitarian Visa RoutesI thank the hon. Member for that good point. Safe and legal routes are part of the solution. We are not making these changes to the immigration system to please any part of the…25 Nov 2025HANSARD Injury in Service AwardMy apologies. My hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft (Jess Asato) mentioned Sue Mitchell, who in November 1984 was also subject to ramming by car. She actually managed to commit…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Injury in Service AwardI do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman. We are having the debate in this House today, but the point stands that the decision is not a political one. We know that for a great…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Injury in Service AwardI cannot give a timescale right here and now, but I will meet the Policing Minister in the next week and we will come back to you with an answer on that.20 Nov 2025HANSARD Injury in Service AwardI begin by adding my voice to what I consider to be the prevailing sentiment emerging from today’s discussion, which is that our police officers, firefighters, paramedics and…20 Nov 2025HANSARD Injury in Service AwardI thank the right hon. Gentleman for the spirit of his question. I reassure the House and those in the Gallery that the Policing Minister is a Minister who has authority. We saw…20 Nov 2025HANSARDSettlement: British National Overseas RouteWe take extremely this seriously in the Home Office, but it is out of control after the previous Government left us with a broken system. That is why in just over a year and a…17 Nov 2025