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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am happy to have given the hon. Member the chance to mention Liz Truss and attack the Conservative economic record. I take the point. If Government Members like the spirit of…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. This is a minor new clause that would require the publication of a report on the impact of implementing the carers minimum…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am happy to take the Minister up on that suggestion. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 15 A three-month service standard for…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move, That the cause be read a Second time. I highlighted this proposed new clause in a previous speech. The clause would ensure a three-month service standard for asylum…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)An Opposition Member and a Minister are not normally meant to agree this much, but I think we do. We probably will not vote the same way, but we generally agree. Last year, there…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. I am happy to introduce new clause 16, which involves an exemption for NHS workers from the immigration skills charge. This…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I will start with what I describe as the brass neck of the Conservatives for breaking the NHS, the immigration system and the social care system, and then criticising my proposal…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Clause, by leave, withdrawn. New Clause 20 Humanitarian travel permit “(1) On an application by a person (‘P’) to the appropriate…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. This is a comprehensive new clause, and I am tempted to be brief in my introduction to it. My Liberal Democrat colleagues…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)The hon. Member for Stockton West highlighted that the scheme proposed by the new clause is not dissimilar to ones that the previous Government introduced for Ukrainians and…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I acknowledge that those schemes try to do that, but I do not think they are working—the exhibit for that is the number of small boats that we see and the number of people fleeing…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I am surprised to be raising this issue and that I do not immediately know the answer. The Minister has raised issues with Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man, but that poses the…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I am happy to support new clause 1—in fact, I enthusiastically support it. The challenge of speaking after the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire is that most of the things…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I have some sympathy for what the hon. Member says. We talked about listening to the refugee charities. One of the notes that I made of our evidence session is that they…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I would really like to hear the Minister confirm that the Government are going to work with international partners to encourage a co-ordinated programme on safe and legal routes.…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Dame Siobhain. I would like the Minister to define electronic monitoring for us, if she can. I do not believe that there is such…11 Mar 2025HANSARDSyriaLike the Minister, I was appalled by the events in Syria this weekend. The killings show that the international community needs to be more involved in Syria. Please will the…10 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I am pleased that the Minister talked about the length of the sentence, which we have not talked about very much in the debate so far. Fourteen years is the maximum sentence for…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clauses 19 to 23 contain very wide powers. Often, police constables have those powers only when they are authorised and monitored by their superiors, but the powers in the Bill…06 Mar 2025HANSARD Palestinian Rights: Government SupportIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir John. I thank the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) not just for securing the debate but for the manner…04 Mar 2025