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HANSARD Human Rights in Hong KongThe hon. Lady is leaping ahead. If she will exercise a little patience, I will come to endorse entirely that point, and beef it up a bit. In response to those being named in the…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Human Rights in Hong KongI beg to move, That this House has considered the future of human rights in Hong Kong. It is a great pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Twigg. It is another week, and…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Human Rights in Hong KongWithout being as parochial as to mention every one of the 191,000 applications for the BNO visa route so far, this is a subject that has been raised. It was also raised in the…23 Jan 2024HANSARD Human Rights in Hong KongI would never let a minute go to waste, Mr Twigg. I thank everybody for taking part in the debate. There has been a great degree of cross-party consensus, because we all recognise…23 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOn the point about declaring a country safe, France, Germany and other EU countries have decided they will not entertain any asylum applications from Albania because it is a safe…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI know it happens already. That is what I have been saying, and the hon. Lady at least credits me with being consistent. We have three problems with the immigration system in this…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAs the author of the safe and legal routes amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill, I will shed a little light on this matter. My hon. Friend is right that we have generous safe…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe hon. Gentleman has just made a discretionary judgment on the safeness of Albania, having said that nobody can determine whether a country should be deemed safe or not. There…17 Jan 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI will be slightly unfashionable and talk to the amendment, rather than regurgitating some of the Second Reading speeches we have had. I do so with some trepidation because…17 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThat is an interesting point, but how does the hon. Lady explain the fact that France receives more asylum applications than we do but rejects twice as many? What are we doing…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAs the hon. Lady knows, I agree with her that we need to extend safe and legal routes—that is why I tabled my amendment previously, which I hope the Government will honour—but…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIt is a little disingenuous to liken this process to the Ukrainian scheme. The only criteria for the Ukrainian scheme were that a person had to be Ukrainian and come from Ukraine.…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Billrose—16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAmendment 45, as the hon. Lady has just said, would permanently designate Rwanda an unsafe country. She has just complained about decision makers having to designate it the other…16 Jan 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy right hon. Friend makes a good case for deterrents but, I fear, a bad case for his amendments. As the Home Affairs Committee found out, when the Rwanda scheme was announced, a…16 Jan 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsLast week, the Home Secretary produced a report on safe and legal routes to comply with section 61 of the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and the amendment I tabled last year. It is…15 Jan 2024HANSARD Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill Hold on!15 Jan 2024HANSARDDefending the UK and AlliesAs co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for Yemen with my hon. Friend the Member for Meon Valley (Mrs Drummond), we have seen at first hand how this brutal, misogynistic,…15 Jan 2024HANSARD Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill I am grateful to the Minister—15 Jan 2024HANSARD Animal Welfare (Livestock Exports) Bill Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker. Given the hugely impressive list that the Minister has just read out, putting the United Kingdom in the vanguard of animal welfare…15 Jan 2024