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HANSARDTier 1 (Investor) RouteOn Thursday 17 February 2022, I laid before the House a statement of changes in the Immigration Rules, which closed the Tier 1 (Investor) route to new applications with immediate…21 Feb 2022HANSARDUK Terrorism Threat LevelThe Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) has reduced the UK national terrorism threat level from severe to substantial. This means that a terrorist attack in the UK is likely.…09 Feb 2022HANSARDIndependent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Report: “Child Sexual Exploitation by Organised NetworksToday, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse published its investigation report on child sexual exploitation by organised networks. The report relates to the NCSA’s…01 Feb 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. I will come to my statement shortly, when I will talk about that issue in much more detail. There are important issues about protecting our…17 Jan 2022HANSARDForeign Interference: Intelligence and SecurityFirst of all, I take issue with the right hon. Lady’s overall comment: there is no complacency. There is never any complacency at all. On issues of national security, it is…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI welcome the right hon. Lady to her role; I did not get the chance to do that when we last met to debate the Nationality and Borders Bill. With regards to the coronavirus…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsOf course I can. I restate what I have said in the House many times about the hybrid approach we need: no one Department can solve this issue in the channel on its own. Let us be…17 Jan 2022HANSARDForeign Interference: Intelligence and SecurityWith permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on foreign interference in UK politics. I, like all Members across this House, am utterly appalled that an individual…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsIf I may say so to the hon. Lady, I repeat the comments that I made earlier. I appreciate that she may be trying to demonstrate some humour, but the Prime Minister has apologised.…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI always enjoy the hon. Gentleman’s contributions. As we saw on Report and Third Reading of the Nationality and Borders Bill, the Scottish National party choose to deploy…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsPerhaps the right hon. Lady has forgotten that, in this country, the police and courts are independent of the Government, and I will always respect that principle. Rather than…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsThe hon. Gentleman needs to understand global migration challenges and the international exploitation of human lives and human beings that takes place, because clearly he has no…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsThe hon. Lady raises the very important and, frankly, quite pressing issue of spiking and its impact across the night-time economy and, much more widely, across society. We are…17 Jan 2022HANSARDTopical QuestionsI thank my hon. Friend for his question; this is a very important matter. Just prior to questions this afternoon, I had a bilateral call with my homeland security counterpart in…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsWe could rerun the debate on the Nationality and Borders Bill, which I would happily do. This Government are determined not just to reform what is a broken asylum system—we are…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI absolutely disagree with the right hon. Lady’s question. Had she read the new plan for immigration—the policy statement published for the benefit of all Members in March…17 Jan 2022HANSARDKnife CrimeMy hon. Friend will know that all efforts are being made on reducing knife crime. As the Policing Minister has just said, the latest police-recorded crime figures have shown a…17 Jan 2022HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI would like to begin my remarks this afternoon by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Birmingham, Erdington. He was a member of the shadow Home Affairs team, and he sadly…17 Jan 2022HANSARDForeign Interference: Intelligence and SecurityMy hon. Friend raises some tantalising recommendations, it is fair to say, for consideration. It is important that anyone who has been in contact with the individual or who has…17 Jan 2022HANSARDForeign Interference: Intelligence and SecurityMy hon. Friend makes an important and valid point. I would like to speak to him about some of the points that he makes.17 Jan 2022