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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for those important points. In fact, the Bibby Stockholm was moored just off a place near my constituency in Dorset. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)I want to reflect on where we have got up to. We have moved through the clauses at quite a pace, and that is very pleasing to see. The Bill responds to the requests of…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Stuart, and I promise that I will be briefer. Does the hon. Member agree that the overwhelming trend under the last…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I thought I would to and find a moment of humour in the dispiriting debate on this topic. The Conservatives may progress to blaming successful legal and judicial challenges to the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)I thank the hon. Member for his patience. Does he agree that he is moving the goalposts slightly to manufacture a political argument that, as he knows, would not be supported by…11 Mar 2025HANSARDProtection of Children (Digital Safety and Data Protection) BillThe hon. Member is making a powerful point about the debate and how it has dwelled in part on the importance of evidence and research. Does he agree that the reason we have so…07 Mar 2025HANSARD Political Finance RulesThe hon. Member is making a case. Does he agree that foreign money has no role in our democracy, and that one of the strongest ways in which we can clean up our politics and…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I was going to allow that statement to go by, because lunch is near and I am quite hungry, but I am hungrier still for the truth. Does the hon. Gentleman not accept the validity…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)Just before the hon. Gentleman does so, there was a question about why the proposed sentence length of 14 years was hit on. I wonder whether he might wish to illuminate us.06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)Let me just finish my point. We heard in oral testimony last Thursday how the extraction of the UK from the Dublin system, under those chaotic circumstances, has created a pull…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her question, but I have another compelling statistic for her. Implicit in much of what the Conservatives say is the idea that the UK alone is carrying…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)It is an honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham and Rainham, who made a very persuasive case. She has stolen much of what I was going to say, which is actually…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)Thank you for your patience, Mr Stuart. I will progress to my more substantive points. I welcome the introduction of the new offence of endangering another life during perilous…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I will take only one intervention.06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for his point; I agree with him. I want to continue to dwell on the question of children’s social care. It is this Government who have been backing…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I am sure that if we cast our minds back to 2019, we will all remember the awful case where 39 Vietnamese migrants died in the back of a trailer in Essex. Reading reports of what…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I note that clause 34(3) sets out the requirement for an authorised person only to take biometric information from a child under the age of 16 “in the presence of a person aged 18…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)It is an honour to serve under your chairpersonship today, Mr Stuart. Does the hon. Gentleman agree that on average we are seeing the number of people per boat increasing each…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)I draw attention to what Sarah Dineley, the head of international at the Crown Prosecution Service, said in her testimony: “I will start with how we rebuild relations with key…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve under your chairpersonship, Mr Stuart, as I should have said earlier. Is the hon. Gentleman saying that the proposed sentence for the facilitation of…04 Mar 2025