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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I trust everybody enjoyed the five-course banquet we had in the 20 minutes available to us. I apologise if I seemed to be unnecessarily detaining the Committee and depriving them…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I remember saying on Second Reading that this Government were carrying on in the vein of the Conservatives. Doing something so all-encompassing and denying as this is probably…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am sure the hon. Gentleman and I will have the opportunity to discuss these issues in the future of this Parliament and I very much look forward to that. I did not hear anything…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I wholeheartedly back the hon. Member for Woking’s new clause; I thought about tabling it myself, but he beat me to it. It is sensible and should be supported by the…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)No, I will correct her and then she can come back on that. Scotland hosted 5,086 refugees receiving support from local authorities. That represents 8.3% of total asylum seekers.…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I think the hon. Lady and I will have to trade these statistics privately, because the figure I have is 5,086 receiving support, and that is from the Office for National…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)No, I am not going into this. I know that we are testing Dame Siobhain’s patience, so we will discuss this privately and might come back to it at another date. As well as it being…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)And there’s one of them!13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)Of course, the hon. Gentleman would not expect me to have those statistics at my fingertips, so, as Ministers say, I will write to him to let him know how many people are in work…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I am not entirely sure what point the hon. Gentleman is trying to make. I think jobs being available for ordinary Scots is the general thrust of his argument and debate, but I…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 41 introduces a significant expansion of detention powers, allowing individuals to be detained from the moment a deportation is considered rather than waiting for a formal…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)It is great to see you in the Chair, Dame Siobhain; it makes a pleasant change from what we have had in the past couple of weeks. I say that in the nicest way to Mr Stuart.11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 7, clause 41, page 35, line 32, leave out subsection (17). This amendment would leave out the subsection of this clause that applies subsections (1) to…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)The Minister may have been coming on to the second part of the question asked by the hon. Member for Stockton West, but will she be brave enough to tell the Committee that this…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I must say to the hon. Member for Stockton West that he really does not want to know my views on British citizenship, because they are likely to blow his head—but we will leave…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)I hear the Minister’s justification for the powers and why she feels they are necessary, but I do not hear any compelling reason for why they have to be introduced…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)I will not detain the Committee for long. I do not like clause 41 anyway—I think the extension of deportation powers is overwhelming and I do not believe they are required—but I…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I am glad that the Minister got to that last sentence, because it is quite clear from section 29 that victims of modern slavery only have to be considered a threat to public…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I do not know where the hon. Member gets his figures, but let me give him some in return. Home Office statistics from 2024 revealed that 70% of the individuals disqualified under…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)This is where we start to get back into very uncomfortable and dangerous territory, where it is going to be up to the individual to prove that they are not guilty of such crimes.…11 Mar 2025