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HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI am loath to interrupt the hon. Gentleman’s short seminar on economics, but let me add my thoughts. Everyone has an economic value and an economic cost, and some people who…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionThe hon. Member is right that, if we did not get the unemployed people who could work into work, the circumstances would be as he describes them. We need to get those people into…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionWill the hon. Lady give way?10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionMy hon. Friend is giving a compelling summation of both the debate and the problem. She will know that Trevor Phillips, the Labour politician and columnist, first deconstructed…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI would like to think that the hon. Gentleman, who is my constituency neighbour, spends more time in Lincolnshire than Clapham. I am sure he does. Perhaps, though, we could have…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI give way to the hon. Gentleman, although he looks like a bespectacled economist, so I am slightly nervous.10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI will deal with those points in order. On the question of population, the ONS is clear that net migration is likely to fuel a rise in the UK population to 72.5 million by 2032.…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionNow that I have been half-kind to the hon. Gentleman, I will give way.10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way a second time; it is very generous of him. I have some figures that I hope will help him. He asked how much it is costing. What…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionThe key difference is the type and number of students. The hon. Gentleman and I rarely disagree, and we certainly do not disagree on this subject very much. If someone is studying…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionThe hon. Gentleman is making a measured speech, unlike the hon. Member for Bristol Central (Carla Denyer), but will he chart what he has mentioned in practical terms? Last year,…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionThis is in anticipation of our trip to Clapham, perhaps. Another economic point that has not been made so far in the debate is that if we allow for the kind of incoming…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionI am extremely grateful for being allowed to contribute to the debate, Dr Huq. I congratulate the hon. Member for Lichfield (Dave Robertson) not only on bringing the subject to…10 Mar 2025HANSARD Business of the HouseI assume that the Leader of the House shares my constituents’ alarm that a court found that a convicted drug dealer who was here illegally could not be deported because he was too…06 Mar 2025HANSARD Palestinian Rights: Government SupportThe shadow Minister and the Liberal Democrat spokesman have agreed to have slightly shorter times. I will try to get two more people in for one minute each.04 Mar 2025HANSARD Palestinian Rights: Government SupportI see a lot of Members are standing. I will not impose a formal time limit, but if people stick to about three minutes, everyone will get in. I discourage interventions.04 Mar 2025HANSARD Palestinian Rights: Government SupportOrder. I remind Members that they need to bob in order to be called—although, by the look of it, they do not need reminding.04 Mar 2025HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsMy remarks about brevity were neither targeted at nor limited to Mr Farron. I call the shadow Minister, Robbie Moore.04 Mar 2025HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsThen I am going to call the Front-Bench spokespeople. That is not an invitation to speak at inordinate length. We are delighted to hear from Tim Farron.04 Mar 2025HANSARD Bathing Water RegulationsWell done for getting your mum in Hansard . I call Gideon Amos to say a few words to sum up.04 Mar 2025