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HANSARD 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) 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) BillWell, that is an interesting one; I did not have talking about the sub-postmasters scandal on my bingo card today. Parliament is free to legislate in any way it wishes, but it has…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) BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is quite remarkable that a party that used to pride itself on being the party of fiscal rectitude is throwing £400 million of taxpayers’…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe co-operation with France is to be welcomed. The problem is that it is too far downstream. We need far better co-operation upstream, which is about sharing data and fixing the…16 Jan 2024HANSARDAsylum Application BacklogThank you, Mr Speaker.15 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Immigration Act 2014 (Residential Accommodation) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2023
Draft Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2023I thank my right hon. Friend for that excellent intervention. The debate around identity cards has been raging, one could say, for a very long time. It is something that needs to…15 Jan 2024HANSARDAsylum Application BacklogThe shambolic incompetence of this Government across every aspect of its disgraceful mismanagement of our country’s asylum system knows no bounds, but today I will highlight a…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Immigration Act 2014 (Residential Accommodation) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2023
Draft Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Dowd. I will first respond to the Minister’s comments on the illegal working penalties and then address the draft order that…15 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Immigration (Health Charge) (amendment) Order 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Pritchard. The immigration health surcharge, or IHS, was introduced in April 2015, at which point it was set at £200 per year.…10 Jan 2024HANSARDDraft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Ms Bardell. As the Minister has explained, these regulations mark another step toward implementation of the few parts of the…10 Jan 2024HANSARD Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum SystemI pay tribute to all colleagues who have taken the time to speak today, particularly the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, my right hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon…09 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI rise to join the shadow Home Secretary, my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford (Yvette Cooper), in supporting the reasoned amendment in the…12 Dec 2023HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank my hon. Friend for his kind words. He is right to suggest that the vast majority of people fleeing war and persecution end up in neighbouring countries in the region in…12 Dec 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration: Small BoatsSince the previous Home Secretary was removed from her post, I think it is fair to say that the Immigration Minister has become a law unto himself. First, he briefed the media…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Strikes (Minimum Service Levels: Border Security) Regulations 2023As always, it is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms Elliott. The ink is barely dry on the primary legislation under which these regulations are being made, yet the…27 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Mr Hosie. The Government’s plans to use scientific methods in verifying the age of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have been…20 Nov 2023HANSARDDraft Immigration (Age Assessments) Regulations 2023We will certainly keep these measures under review, as would be the duty of any sensible Government. Policy making should be based on evidence, on facts and on the law, and Labour…20 Nov 2023HANSARDEconomic GrowthIt is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Burnley (Antony Higginbotham). Even by the standards of this shambolic Government, this King’s Speech is a wafer-thin effort. That…14 Nov 2023