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HANSARD Illegal Migration BillLast Tuesday, this House voted 18 times —more times than on any other day on any other piece of legislation—and 18 times it voted to support this Bill.17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI am grateful for those points. Social workers will clearly be at the heart of all this work, as they are today. Every setting in which young people are housed by the Home Office,…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillThe existing arrangement that we have secured with Albania—incidentally, Albania is a signatory to the European convention against trafficking— enables us to safely return…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI hope that that is not borne out. It is worth remembering that we will not remove anyone to a country in which they would be endangered. We would be removing that person either…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI understand the point that my right hon. Friend makes, but I am not sure that that is necessary, because the Detention Centre Rules 2001 are very explicit in the high standards…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI am not sure exactly what the hon. Lady’s question was. If it was about access to safe and legal routes, let me be clear, as I have in numerous debates on this topic, that since…17 Jul 2023HANSARDStatement of Changes in Immigration RulesMy right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is today laying before the House a statement of changes in Immigration Rules. Changes to the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) and EUSS Family…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI beg to move, That this House disagrees with Lords amendments 1B, 7B and 90D.17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way, because this is an important point that all Members of the House should appreciate. The No. 1 reason why we are struggling to…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillDoes the hon. Gentleman know how many asylum seekers are housed in his constituency, or would he like me to tell him? It is none. There are no asylum seekers accommodated in…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI understand my right hon. Friend’s position, and it is right that he is vocalising it, but we do not believe that what he says is likely. The provision that we have made in the…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI completely agree. Anyone who feels that this country has sufficient resource to welcome significant further numbers of individuals at the present time, should look at the inbox…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillFirst, the Lords amendment on modern slavery goes further by making the scheme, as we see it, much more difficult to establish. There are a number of reasons but, in particular,…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration Billindicated dissent .17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillMy right hon. Friend makes a number of important points. The guidance is very detailed, but I am sure that it would benefit from updating. Therefore, the points that she has made…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI strongly endorse my hon. Friend’s comments. This is an issue of the highest importance to the people we serve in this place. Of course there is a legitimate role for the other…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI read the remarks of the noble Lord Clarke, and I entirely agree with his point, which is that, having listened to the totality of the debate in the House of Lords, he had not…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillThe hon. Member is right that I misspoke when citing those statistics on an earlier occasion, but in fact the statistics were worse than I said to the House. What I said was that,…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillWith the leave of the House, let me say a few words to close this short debate. As I said at the outset, when we met and voted 18 times last week, we supported the Bill time and…17 Jul 2023HANSARD Illegal Migration BillI will not—we have heard from the hon. Gentleman a number of times. The other place is ultimately a revising Chamber, and it is now time for it to support the Bill. Today’s debate…17 Jul 2023