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HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI am grateful to my hon. Friend for that and I will be speaking to her friend and neighbour, my right hon. Friend the Member for North Thanet (Sir Roger Gale). I know that the…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityMy hon. Friend raises an extremely important point, which gets to the nub of the question. These individuals are leaving a safe country, and they are leaving France, of all safe…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThe Home Secretary and her predecessors have been putting in place a number of measures over the course of the summer, including hiring more individuals to process the claims at…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI suspect that she would do a great deal more than the SNP if they were in government.27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThat is a very important question and one to which I will be giving a lot of thought in the coming days. As I said earlier, around a quarter of those individuals who have crossed…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI intend to have the most constructive approach possible with our friends in France to try to address the issue together. Our progress will always be limited if we cannot have a…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI agree with everything my hon. Friend says. It is quite wrong that the British taxpayer is paying for hotels to such a degree. We need to reduce our reliance on those hotels as…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityIt certainly is. We want the UK to be a home for those in genuine need of refuge. I am proud of the work we have done in recent years: the scheme for Hong Kong nationals to come…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her kind words about my appointment. I was honoured to be appointed by the Prime Minister 48 hours ago to help my right hon. Friend the…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThe continued rise in dangerous small boat crossings is placing an unprecedented strain on our asylum system. The Manston processing centre is a single, secure environment that is…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityMy hon. Friend is absolutely right that these individuals have chosen to make an extremely dangerous and perilous crossing. We have greeted them, and we are ensuring that they are…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI am the Minister for Immigration.27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityAbsolutely. Fundamentally, the Opposition parties want to see uncontrolled immigration. We disagree with that and it is entirely out of step with the British public. We want to…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThe number of people crossing the channel remains unacceptably high, and that is why it needs to be a priority for me and my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary.27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityThe real issue we have faced in the past two years is that because of the scale of illegal immigration, including through small boats, we have not been able to provide the kind of…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityWe do not want these individuals to make the channel crossing in the first place. They are coming from a safe country and most have travelled through multiple safe countries…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI share my hon. Friend’s concern. It is disgraceful that this country is spending hundreds of millions of pounds on accommodating people in hotels, and we need to resolve that. To…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI am grateful to the right hon. Lady for welcoming me to my position and for her questions. I do not detect any plan from the Labour party for how it would tackle this issue. We…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityI am grateful to my hon. Friend for the question and for his long-standing interest in this issue. He is absolutely right that part of a fair and robust asylum system is that…27 Oct 2022HANSARD Cross-Channel Migrants: Manston FacilityA small number of children are held at the facility. As I said in answer to an earlier question, we do prioritise families, so that families are, as swiftly as possible, allowed…27 Oct 2022