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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Twelfth sitting)That is also a helpful clarification, because the hon. Gentleman’s concern is with the judiciary and its behaviours. Can I clarify what he has just said, exactly as I heard it:…18 Mar 2025HANSARD Children’s Wellbeing and Schools BillThe hon. Lady is making a powerful point about the importance of accessing coherent and organised records. However, does she agree that one of the reasons for those records being…17 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman reflect on the statistics that show that around 90% of people crossing the channel are men, and on the fact that men in Ukraine are typically committed to…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman acknowledge that there is not a binary choice between, on the one hand, safe and legal routes to the UK, and on the other, getting into a death machine…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Is it not the case that the Government do not think that primary legislation is the way to secure international negotiation about safe and legal routes? Actually, those…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I wonder whether the SNP and the Liberal Democrats are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, and I mean that in two senses. First, they query whether this Government are…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I want to comment briefly on the speech by the hon. Member for Perth and Kinross-shire. I understand the importance of being sensitive to possible infringements and abuses of…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)I refer the Committee back to the oral evidence that we heard at the very start of our work. Experts were asked whether they felt that the available immigration data, which could…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Tenth sitting)I was listening carefully and had a lightbulb moment. Perhaps the Conservatives figured out what a deterrent was—it was crashing the economy and putting our country into such…13 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Ninth sitting)Does the hon. Gentleman agree that it is important, as my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh was just saying, that we listen to the refugee voice and think…13 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillIn 2023, BH Live, a company based in my constituency, was named as not paying 130 workers—130 of the lowest-paid workers in my constituency—the national minimum wage. Ultimately,…12 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)May I start by saying that it is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Stuart? I am particularly enjoying the opportunity to have these debates in a free-flowing…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that important reminder that when the Labour Government took office after our historic win, we inherited an awful mess in our prison system, which was…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I was trying to count the number of times the hon. Member used the word “deterrent”, and I ran out of fingers. Could he please define what a deterrent is?11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I apologise, Mr Stuart.11 Mar 2025HANSARD Employment Rights BillDoes the hon. Member agree, as I do, that it is right that 1.3 million low earners who find themselves ill should receive statutory sick pay for the first time? Like her, I…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I ask the hon. Member to desist from referring to that report. In oral evidence, I asked two experts whether they thought it was possible to make such assessments on the basis of…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Dame Siobhain. I want to dwell briefly on clause 43 because it embodies a significant theme in the Bill: preparing our…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh, who, in an outstanding speech, set out the major challenges with the Illegal Migration Act,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)The Illegal Migration Act, which we are discussing under this clause, was put on the statute book by the previous Government, but they did not commence much of it at all. Can the…11 Mar 2025