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HANSARDDraft Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023I do not have those figures. Having done this job for more than a year now, I have never come across any instances—20 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023If that is the case, the hon. Member should provide them, but I have never been provided with any data or indeed anecdote of a child deliberately posing as an adult. All the data…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023I will come to that in my wider remarks, but the first thing to say is that what we are proposing is not instead of the existing Merton process but in addition to it. That is an…20 Nov 2023HANSARDIllegal ImmigrationFewer than 30,000.15 Nov 2023HANSARDBorder Security: Minimum Service LevelsOn 6 November, the Government published their response to a recent public consultation on establishing minimum service levels on strike days in the border security sector. The…08 Nov 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationWe want the UK to be a strategic partner of choice for all countries—whether in Europe or further upstream, such as in north Africa—that share our determination to tackle this…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationThe hon. Gentleman is not correct in his presentation that the UK is less generous than other European countries. Statistics are hard to compare, because we are a destination…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationMy hon. Friend makes an important point. It is undoubtedly true that communities with fewer hotels have fewer public services. It is harder for people to get around because public…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationI share my hon. Friend’s sentiment and conviction. Of course we should be a decent, generous and compassionate country to those coming here from places of peril, but we also have…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationI thank my hon. Friend for her good work representing her constituents on this issue in her characteristically sensible and calm manner. I am pleased that we have come to a good…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationI am delighted that the hotel to which my hon. Friend refers is in the first tranche. He and I visited it with his colleagues from Stoke, and it was clearly a classic case of why…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationIt will be an interesting conversation with the leader of Glasgow City Council, because as I recall the council does not want to take any more of our refugees. It put out a…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationI am grateful for my hon. Friend’s kind words and for the leadership she has shown in arguing on behalf of her constituents for that migrant hotel to close. Her argument was…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationWe take seriously our obligations to treat anyone in our care with dignity and compassion, and when we or our providers fall below that standard, it is right that we take action…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationThe two hotels; my right hon. Friend corrects me. I would obviously like them to be closed at the earliest opportunity, but today we are setting out the beginning of a phased…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationAs we make more progress on stopping the boats, so we will make more progress on closing the hotels. I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his work. His constituents have…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal Migrationindicated dissent .24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationThat is of concern to me and the Home Secretary. We are aware of abuse in some of our communities, and we work closely with immigration enforcement and other agencies to try to…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationFirst the hon. Lady wanted us to clear the backlog; now she does not want us to do that because of the consequences of clearing it. Perhaps it would be better if she just…24 Oct 2023HANSARDIllegal MigrationI am pleased that some of the hotels in my hon. Friend’s constituency will now be closed. He has seen just how challenging illegal migration can be, not least in the protests in…24 Oct 2023