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HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationThis Government are clear that someone’s race or ethnicity should never be a barrier to success. As set out in the King’s Speech last July, we are committed to introducing…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationMy hon. Friend references the race equality engagement group, which we announced yesterday. The group will strengthen the Government’s links with ethnic minority communities,…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationFair and equal treatment at work is a right, not a privilege. Companies like Deloitte, which I visited recently, are reporting voluntarily on their ethnicity pay gaps, and I have…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationI thank my hon. Friend for his question and I completely agree with him. Indeed, I also attended a wonderful interfaith iftar in Hounslow on Friday. Islamophobia is completely…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. There are stark inequalities in maternal health, mental health and a range of other areas, including infant mortality. She is absolutely right…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationThe hon. Lady is absolutely right. It is important that we tackle religious and racial hatred in all its forms.19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationThe hon. Gentleman will agree that antisemitism has no place in our society or in our workplaces. This is an extremely important issue, and he will know that the Home Secretary…19 Mar 2025HANSARDEthnic Minority People: DiscriminationThe shadow Minister knows that Hamas is a proscribed organisation, and we will not tolerate antisemitism at any point, or in any way.19 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison, and to make a few remarks at the end of this interesting debate. I will make a few general comments first and then…18 Mar 2025HANSARDDraft Equality (Race and Disability) Bill: Public ConsultationThis Government are committed to ensuring that equality and opportunity are at the heart of our programme for national renewal. Our plan for change sets out the ambitious—but…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Lady is right. I have raised a number of times during the debate we have had the ways in which we see routes abused; indeed, the way that routes have been designed has…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)Does the shadow Minister also agree that, since we came into government to the end of January, returns were almost 19,000, which is up around a fifth on what they were 12 years…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I thank the hon. Member for that point. I have laid out the argument about needing an immigration system that is subject to rules and that can recognise different circumstances. I…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Member for Mid Dunbartonshire proposes an amendment that seeks to significantly change the current refugee family reunion policy, and to expand the current eligibility to…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I just mention that we have the upcoming immigration White Paper, in which we will set out our approach to the immigration system and how to support it to be better controlled and…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I will—I expect the hon. Lady to make the point she made earlier.18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)My hon. Friend highlights a crucial point about the importance of evidence-based policy and of good data, which was sorely lacking across the whole immigration system when we came…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am pleased to speak about new clause 32, which would mean that people who are settled in the UK had that status automatically revoked in a wide range of circumstances.…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)The hon. Gentleman is right, and the Prime Minister laid out the view that it was the wrong decision. We do need to find a way to tighten up how Parliament understands the rules…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)We have said that we hope to publish the immigration White Paper later in the spring. I have made some remarks in relation to foreign criminals; the Government are clear that they…18 Mar 2025