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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)We have had an extensive and wide-ranging debate covering a host of areas. I thank hon. Members for their contributions. I turn to amendments 16, 17, 98 to 104, 130 and 160.…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)There have been references during the debate to detention. As I set out in an intervention previously, the accommodation centres are not detention. It is very important to…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that I have not been in post for long—for just over a month—and the accommodation element of the Government’s work on immigration does not fall…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)As I have said repeatedly now, my understanding is that people are under no obligation to remain within the accommodation facilities if they do not wish to do so. Of course, one…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)There has been a very clear undertaking in Committee to establish those advisory groups, which is welcome. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that various transparency and…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Seventh sitting)I will give way, but I have made this point, and I am very clear about it.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)We will no doubt debate this in great detail in due course. As I say, we are putting in place an improved access to justice offer more generally through the Bill.19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I want to pick up the points that have been raised by the hon. Members for Bermondsey and for Old Southwark and for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East. Clearly, the…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question and I will visit that in my later remarks, if I may. He is right to say that I think it is right that Parliament took back…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The point that I would make is that we keep evolving circumstances and individual cases under review. It is right that we consider cases individually and properly take account of…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Member for prompting me on this. I have a fairly lengthy speech on this clause. I will come to those points, and will illustrate them with some specific…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)Picking up on the earlier question that the shadow Minister asked, I should say that my understanding when it comes to this amendment is that the clause will affect only a small…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I was referring in passing to new clause 12, Ms McDonagh. British overseas citizenship, or BOC, was created by the 1981 Act. It was created for people connected with former…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I think it is fair to say that, with all the Blair and Brown documentaries on television at the moment, it is perfect to be thinking about clause IV, for members of the Opposition.19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)That is me told. Clause 7 applies to three routes to British nationality: naturalisation as a British citizen, naturalisation as a British overseas territories citizen and…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The hon. Member for Glasgow North East speaks for the whole House in saying that immigration has made an enormously positive contribution to this country over decades. As elected…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The clause amends the provision for registering a child as a British citizen or British overseas territories citizen when the child was born in the UK or a territory and has been…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)Let me talk through the case studies in the first instance, because I think it is useful to set this in context. Child X was born in the UK, which their Indian parents had entered…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The direct answer to the hon. Gentleman’s question is that we can provide details of the number of applications, but we cannot confirm the specific number of cases in the way he…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)As I have said, we are aware that this is happening. We think it is right to take steps through the Bill, so that those going through the process are not disadvantaged relative to…19 Oct 2021