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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)This is my last intervention on this matter. I take the hon. Lady’s point entirely, but will she not acknowledge that the modelling has deep, fundamental flaws? Although it may be…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am happy to accept that clarification. If that is correct, I look forward to seeing more information about the particular policy, what financial costs would be involved and what…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will speak briefly. I welcome the hon. Member for Weald of Kent’s clarification of the Conservative party’s position on the amendment, but that clarification also raises further…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)In which case, I will close by saying that the Home Office data shows there is not that drop-off of people—people do not leave the country because they have to wait longer for…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)The very last point I will make is that I understand what the hon. Lady is saying, but that is not what my point was about. This would not be a deterrent or an incentive for…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am reading from the Home Office website, which says: “Comparisons of arrivals between the same months in different years may also be affected by differences in conditions. As a…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)With regard to migrants’ diet before they come to the UK, can the hon. Member tell us whether he expects them to have or to lack normal calcium?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)The rest of Europe is doing free trade, but the shadow Minister does not want to do that. We should reflect on Europe and what we want to import into our country. On the bone age…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I appreciate the hon. Gentleman’s desire for our frontline staff to have all the tools they need. The Bill will expand the number of tools, but those are the tools that frontline…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eleventh sitting)I thank the hon. Member for Weald of Kent for raising the absolutely horrific and awful circumstances involving Thomas Roberts, who would have been my constituent and whose…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)We are witnessing some particularly theatrical prose, perhaps for the first time. Has Boris Johnson got a new job as the hon. Gentleman’s speechwriter?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)It was remiss of me not to say earlier that I admire the hon. Gentleman’s tie—it is very nice. On the point he raises, I have said consistently that that particular report by the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Briefly, prompted by the Opposition, we are inching towards a more interesting debate, on how to assess the financial benefits and costs of migration, while grounding that in…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Is the hon. Gentleman concerned more about the Human Rights Act or its application by judges?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I did not understand what the hon. Gentleman said. Is he concerned more about the judges’ application of the Human Rights Act or the Act itself?18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)I am still not very clear—I apologise, maybe I ate too much at lunch. Does the hon. Gentleman have issues with the Human Rights Act such that he believes that we ought not to be…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)That was a helpful clarification to my earlier question about whether what the hon. Gentleman is citing represents a snapshot or the totality—he says that they are three of the…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman recognise that the Hongkonger population would be very disheartened to hear what he is saying? Does he think it is right for him to stick to what he is…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)To clarify, if a lady goes back to Hong Kong and is willing to entertain the risk in order to briefly grieve with her family and to bury her mother or father, she would lose her…18 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)What would happen in a scenario in which somebody from Hong Kong went back in order to attend the funeral of their mother or father?18 Mar 2025