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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Roger. I am grateful for your refresher course. We are all rusty and I ask for your forgiveness for the mistakes that I…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I wish to echo everything the shadow Minister said in outlining why we passionately oppose the clause. As I said in earlier speeches, and has been illustrated by many hon.…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The explanatory note just says that there have been cases. This is a very serious change. Can the Minister give us examples of analysis that has been done and the types of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)There is an absolutely fundamental distinction between naturalisation and registration. We are talking about people who would have had an automatic right to citizenship, which is…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Ms McDonagh. I will speak in support of amendments 13, 14, 30 and 31. I also support amendments 34 and 35. Amendment 35 in…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I will have to give some further thought to what the Minister has just said. I take the point about people who would have had to register—therefore, there is still an element of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful, but that is an argument that the Home Office makes every time we have this debate. We have had Westminster Hall debates and so forth, and it is an awful point. This…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to all Members for taking part and the Minister for his response. There have been two separate issues. First, on the new registration provision in the Bill, he has…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)I have a quick question on the fee waiver. Why is registration for citizenship just about the only thing where there is no fee waiver scheme at all? There is a fee waiver…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)My understanding, from the briefing I was given at the weekend, is that in July the Home Office sent a letter to nationality experts stating that the intention was not to charge a…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)To echo the point made by the hon. Member for Bermondsey and Old Southwark, no big profits are made on passports. Of course, people still have British citizenship even without a…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to pick up on one thing the shadow Minister mentioned in his speech. He is right that the most profound implications of the clause relate to the correction of wrongs that…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)The figures that I gave in terms of the cost to the Home Office came from, I think, freedom of information requests, so they have been carefully calculated. It is beyond doubt—I…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)The fundamental point is that a kid’s British citizenship is not a service; it is a right. I am happy to have a discussion about the wording of the new clause, but I understand…19 Oct 2021HANSARDTopical QuestionsHaving expressed our condolences, can we also express our thanks both to you, Mr Speaker, and the Home Secretary for the work that is already ongoing to review and improve our…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI and my colleagues, from the bottom of our hearts, send our deepest condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of both Sir David Amess and James Brokenshire. It is fair to…18 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Something to be aware of, then. On disclosure, you have both expressed concern about the traffic information notices, particularly in relation to children. More generally, how…23 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Dame Sara, have you anything to add? Dame Sara Thornton: Briefly. Siobhán has explained the issue of trauma, what we know about its impact on the brain, the way it affects…23 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Third sitting)Q But when was the last time anyone was sent to an offshore processing centre? Is it not years ago? George Brandis: Let me get that information for you—I cannot give you a date.…23 Sept 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Third sitting)Q We all want to see that happen, but we have different views about how we can do it and the other implications of various policies. Madeline Gleeson, for example, and others…23 Sept 2021