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HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresWhile the issue at Manston is indisputably concerning, I do not want us to create alarm unnecessarily. I therefore gently urge the hon. Member not to use inflammatory language. We…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI am committed to delivering the Rwanda plan, which took a huge amount of work and commitment by my right hon. Friend the Member for Witham (Priti Patel) and the former Prime…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI set out those details in the letter today and I have made it clear that there were no issues about national security being compromised.31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresPart of our plan for tackling this issue is about increasing our resources and manpower in order to detect and intercept the organised criminal gangs upstream. That is what part…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresWe take removals seriously. Actually, part of the plan to solve the problem is about trying to accelerate the turnaround and processing of people arriving illegally. We have…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresWe are currently accommodating unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in hotels with a maximum occupancy of 353, and additional available accommodation is coming on stream. I would…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresMy right hon. Friend speaks a lot of sense, as always, and he is right; the British people have had enough of an out-of-control borders system. It is incumbent upon this…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI dispute the right hon. Gentleman’s version of events, with respect. Since 2015, the UK has offered a place to over 380,000 men, women and children seeking safety, including from…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresMy hon. Friend is right to mention the returns agreement, and we want to maximise the deployment of the terms of that agreement. That is a brilliant starting point for trying to…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresIt is not often that I say this, but I agree with a lot of what the right hon. Lady has just said. She is right; when I arrived at the Home Office in September, I was dismayed to…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresMy hon. Friend again raises a very important feature that has emerged over the last six to nine months about the prominence of Albanian migrants arriving on our shores, and he is…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI read with interest the session that the right hon. Lady conducted last week at her Select Committee, and I just want to put on record my immense thanks to the officials. The…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI thank my hon. Friend for her indefatigable campaigning on the issue. I have been grateful for her direct input on it. This is incredibly difficult; I do not want to sugar-coat…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI refer the hon. Gentleman to the letter that I sent today to the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson). I…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI thank my right hon. Friend for his commitment to safeguarding the people who are at Manston and for representing his local constituents in the area. I was very pleased to meet…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresLet them try. I know that I speak for the decent, law-abiding, patriotic majority of British people from every background who want safe and secure borders. Labour is running…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI apologised for the error, I took responsibility, and I resigned for the error, but let us be clear about what is really going on here. The British people deserve to know which…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI will pick up on some of the right hon. Lady’s points, but I will not comment on any details relating to the case in question or to the individual under consideration. There has…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresI pushed officials to identify accommodation options that would be more cost-effective and delivered swiftly while meeting our legal obligation to migrants. I have held regular…31 Oct 2022HANSARDWestern Jet Foil and Manston Asylum Processing CentresThank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. With permission, I would like to make a statement about asylum processing at Manston and the incident in Dover yesterday. At around 11.20 am on…31 Oct 2022