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HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Seventh sitting)I am always perplexed by the facing-two-ways approach that the Government sometimes take on this. On the one hand, they say that they are totally against any sort of…28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Seventh sitting)I am hugely disappointed by the response from both Front-Bench spokespeople, and their degree of engagement on this will be a disappointment to their party colleagues in the…28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Seventh sitting)I am pleased to be back on the same side as the hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton; I need not say much more than he did. The amendments would address the problems that will arise…28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Seventh sitting)That is acceptable if there is a deal, so I do not understand why it is completely unacceptable if there is no deal.28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Eighth sitting)I will speak to amendments 38 and 39, tabled in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, which are essentially subsections of the broader…28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Eighth sitting)I will speak to new clause 36, but I also fully support everything that the hon. Member for Torfaen has said about amendment 21. I can be very brief, given what he has said. As…28 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Eighth sitting)It is fair to say that MPs can provide some basic help, but they are not immigration lawyers. All hon. Members have to be cautious to ensure that they do not hand out legal…28 Feb 2019HANSARDDraft Law Enforcement and Security (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir David. I will be very brief, because the shadow Minister has said pretty much everything that I would have said. I simply…27 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Sixth sitting)The Minister has made the point a couple of times that the Government will not expect people to be tied to a particular employer. I welcome that, because tying people to employers…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 4, in clause 4, page 2, line 34, leave out “appropriate” and insert “necessary”. This amendment would ensure that the Secretary of State may only make…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)It was a little while after my first election in 2015 that I first heard the term “Henry VIII clause,” but I have become very familiar with it since then. The clauses in the…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Coordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for her detailed response; she said she would go into the detail and she certainly did not disappoint. The one defence that does not really fly with…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for giving way so early. She has asserted a couple of times that the new system will provide a level playing field for everybody, but the White Paper…26 Feb 2019HANSARD Former British Child Migrants: Payment SchemeThanks very much, Mr Hollobone, for calling me to speak. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, and I genuinely thank you for offering me the opportunity to speak very…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stringer. I thank the Clerks for working their way through a mountain of amendments and making them presentable in the last…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)A new argument appeared for the first time yesterday at Home Office questions, saying the problem was caused because Windrush was what Ministers describe as a declaratory system.…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 29, in clause 2, page 1, line 11, at end insert— “(1A) After section 2A insert— ‘ 2B Family members of Irish citizens Nothing in the Immigration Rules…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I am grateful to the Minister for her detailed response. As I have accepted, amendment 29 is not perfect. I also accept her general reassurances about the treatment of Irish…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)This is the crux of the matter—the Minister is confirming an approach that appears to be different from the one set out in the clause. Why not just include the Government’s…26 Feb 2019HANSARDImmigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Fifth sitting)I beg to move amendment 4, in clause 4, page 2, line 34, leave out “appropriate” and insert “necessary”. This amendment would ensure that the Secretary of State may only make…26 Feb 2019