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HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKrose —23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKOn jobs, my hon. Friend will have seen that every steel industry across the G20 and around the planet is going through massive change, but the only place where there is a threat…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Protecting Steel in the UKThe Port Talbot steelworks is the beating heart of our community. Generation after generation have worked in that steelworks. Port Talbot is the steelworks, and the steelworks is…23 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThank you, Dame Rosie. It is against the backdrop of chaos, confusion and “party before country” that we consider the amendments before us today. I wish to start by commenting on…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIf the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will make a little more progress and then come back to him.17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWhat we are seeing is complete shambolic incompetence in the asylum system, and if cases are not made clearly and are open to legal appeal, legal appeals will come and, in some…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOn safe and legal routes, as a priority I would look at things like the Afghan schemes, which are completely and utterly broken. The Afghan relocations and assistance policy has…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAs I said yesterday, there are pragmatic, sensible things the Government have been doing that we support. For example, the Opposition fully support the Albania deal. The fact that…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIt is clear that in order to stop the Tory small boats chaos, we have to smash the criminal smuggler gangs. That will be done through enhanced co-operation with European partners…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWhen we enter Government, as I hope we will, everything we do will be based on a test: is it affordable, is it workable and is it legal? The legal piece has to be based on…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIt is a pleasure to serve under your chairship again, Dame Rosie. Here we go again: it is day two in Committee for the third asylum Bill in less than two years, and day 643 of the…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy hon. Friend makes a very good point. As we have also seen in the letter that Nathalie Loiseau sent to her about the potential risks that there are to the trade and co-operation…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments, but we have made it absolutely clear that the Bill is unaffordable, unworkable and unlawful. The Opposition will never support any…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his powerful intervention. It is difficult to determine the true purpose of the Bill these days, because it has become embroiled in various Tory…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI apologise if I did not fully understand the hon. Gentleman’s point in his question to me when I was making my remarks. It was specifically about the other place. What I would…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe hon. Lady is right. The Afghan schemes are a case in point. The Afghan relocations and assistance policy has more or less collapsed, the Afghan citizens resettlement scheme is…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOf course Parliament is sovereign, and of course we in this place are sent here to make laws, but we must make those laws with restraint; we must make them while respecting the…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe Minister is simply misrepresenting the purpose of new clause 6. Its purpose is to put the monitoring committee on a statutory footing so that it can potentially be subject to…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank the right hon. Member for that intervention. I do not think I could have made it any clearer that we believe in the rule of law and the judicial function, and when the…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThere has been a 30% drop since 2010 in convictions of criminal smuggler gangs, and a 50% drop since 2010 in removals. I would be very happy to write to the hon. Gentleman with…16 Jan 2024