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HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourI am pleased that those in my hon. Friend’s constituency are starting to draw up plans for the next round of the safer streets fund. He will know what a difference safer streets…20 Mar 2023HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourMy hon. Friend is right to focus on the blight that antisocial behaviour causes to communities. He mentions existing powers that the police have. We are keen to ensure that those…20 Mar 2023HANSARDAntisocial BehaviourWe are committed to tackling antisocial behaviour and to recruiting 20,000 additional police officers, which will take us to our highest number ever. We expanded the safer streets…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: CompatibilityMany people have commented on this. All I will say is that people who resort to such analogies have already lost the argument.20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: CompatibilityMy hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point, and I agree with his sentiment. The historic conventions to which we subscribe are fundamentally challenged by modern travel and…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: CompatibilityI refer the hon. Lady to article 31 of the refugee convention, which makes it clear that there is not an absolute duty on states to offer provision to asylum seekers, particularly…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: CompatibilityI refer the hon. Lady to the statement in my name that appears on the front of the Bill. I would add that I am satisfied that the provisions of the Bill are capable of being…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: CompatibilityI do not think the hon. Lady has quite got the point of the Human Rights Act. Section 19(1)(b) is designed for exactly these purposes. Although the Government believe our…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersThe problem that the hon. Lady is labouring under is that in opposing our plans, she sides with the people-smuggling gangs. She actively encourages, in effect, co-operation with…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersWe take very seriously our duties to everybody who is within our care. Our measures will always, of course, ensure that proper wellbeing and welfare provision is available to…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersThe hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that this is about enabling the Government to properly help the most genuine and vulnerable asylum seekers and refugees who come to this…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersThe only people who have failed here are Labour and Opposition Members who have failed to stand up for the British people and failed to support our measures to stop the boats. All…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersI thank the hon. Gentleman for his approach to entertaining the House today, but let us compare what the Labour party has done over the last 10 days with what the Government have…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersWe keep the list of proscribed organisations under review. We do not routinely comment on security and intelligence matters, but where a group meets a test of being a terrorism…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersWell, I will still say that what Labour MPs have done is outrageous, and I encourage them to apologise.20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersWe must stop the misuse of our asylum system so that we can focus our resources upon those who really need our help, not those who can afford to pay people smugglers to transport…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration Bill: Asylum SeekersWe always place a high priority on the wellbeing of asylum seekers, which is why we are also committing to rolling out safe and legal routes as part of our plan. While I have the…20 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI have to make some progress. I have taken quite a lot of interventions, I am afraid.13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will take one last intervention.13 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He is absolutely right about Scotland where, until recently, only Glasgow was taking asylum…13 Mar 2023