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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right. It used to take 100 days to consider a modern slavery claim. It now takes more than 500 days, because there has been a massive influx of people…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillDeterrence is a core aim of these measures. We need to send the message that, if someone comes here illegally on a boat, paying a people smuggler, they will not have an…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs we saw last year, the fact that the Strasbourg Court issued a rule 39 order pursuant to an opaque process in which the UK was not represented was deeply regrettable. We are…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe package of measures I have brought forward represents a humanitarian set of measures that will, above all, deter people from making a dangerous and sometimes fatal journey in…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend talks about pragmatism and fairness, and ultimately we are seeing a global migration crisis in which more than 100 million people will be displaced throughout the…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe are clear that the measures in the Bill comply with our international law obligations. We are pleased to be proceeding with it and I encourage the hon. Lady to back it.07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe Rwanda partnership has been tested rigorously in the High Court, which is why I welcome the judgment of senior judges, who upheld the partnership as being lawful and compliant…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe hon. Lady’s faux outrage is commendable, but the reality is that that is not borne out by the facts. We have accepted nearly 500,000 people through safe and legal routes for…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillFar from scapegoating the vulnerable, this is about protecting the vulnerable. This is about empowering our authorities properly to support genuine victims of modern slavery. This…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is right, as usual. This is where those on the left just go wrong. They naively believe that everyone on a boat is always fleeing persecution, war and conflict. The…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe community sponsorship scheme is a good scheme that enables the settlement of people who are seeking refuge in this country. My hon. Friend talks about activist lawyers. I will…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThis is about our humanitarian approach, but it is also about fairness. My hon. Friend is right—the British people’s famous sense of fair play and generosity has been tested…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMay I put on the record my thanks to my hon. Friend? As an excellent Home Office Minister, he shepherded through many of the measures in the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 that…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am proud of our track record of welcoming people through humanitarian routes who are fleeing war, persecution and other conflict, whether from Afghanistan, Syria or Hong Kong.…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe have made it clear that there will be a duty on the Home Secretary to make arrangements for a removal, and that removal will be suspended only in the event that the claimant…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe are making good progress in bearing down on the legacy backlog in our asylum system. We have increased the number of decision makers and streamlined the decision-making…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWe struck a new deal with France at the end of last year. That saw an increase in the number of French personnel patrolling the French beaches. It saw a new development, with…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy hon. Friend is absolutely right to alight on the issue of the criminal gangs and people smugglers, and the importance of the pan-European criminal work that is ongoing to break…07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe Bill introduces measures that we consider to be compliant with all our international obligations—in fact, we are certain.07 Mar 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe hon. Lady talks about what people did or did not vote for. The British people did not vote for 45,000 people to come here illegally or for £6 million to be spent every day on…07 Mar 2023