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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)The amendment remedies a drafting issue. The clause as a whole creates a route to register as a British citizen for people who have registered as a British overseas territories…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)We have been clear that the nationality provisions within the Bill seek to tackle historical unfairness and inequality in British nationality law. As with earlier clauses, this…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)This clause seeks to amend British nationality law to remove historical registration requirements and to reflect recent case law. As we have already heard, before 1983 women were…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I will deal with each of the amendments proposed, and then I will of course pick up on a number of the points, questions and challenges that have been raised throughout the course…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)Let me respond briefly to the point that has understandably and rightly been made. As I said in response to earlier clauses, there is a very constructive working relationship…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the point that he raises. Broadly speaking, there is a view that the discretionary approach to cases is helpful in ensuring that we can…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)I will come back to the point that the hon. Gentleman raises but, as I say, there is a view that taking a discretionary approach to cases is helpful in reaching the correct…19 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. The key point is that through the Bill, we are improving access to justice. Clearly, the improved access to justice…19 Oct 2021HANSARDAgri-food Industry: Labour ShortagesI thank my hon. Friend and neighbour for his question. It will not surprise him to hear that only a couple of weeks ago I received a note from Sir David congratulating me on my…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his question. We are working across Government on these matters. I know that engagement is going on through the Foreign, Commonwealth and…18 Oct 2021HANSARDAgri-food Industry: Labour ShortagesI thank my hon. Friend for his question. As I say, we have been responsive to the needs that have arisen in our economy. We have been engaging with the various sectors that have…18 Oct 2021HANSARDAgri-food Industry: Labour ShortagesWhen we introduced the new skilled worker visa last year, we broadened the skills threshold from the academically focused graduate level under the previous tier 2 visa to…18 Oct 2021HANSARDAgri-food Industry: Labour ShortagesI note that the hon. Lady met the Home Secretary recently to talk about this issue. Events have moved on since; we have flexibility on visas and the issues around cold storage are…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsAs ever, my right hon. Friend gets to the nub of the issue. I make the point again, because it bears repeating, that there is no one single answer to resolve the challenge that we…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsMy right hon. Friend will know that the provisions in the Bill are comprehensive, many and varied. As I said, there is not one single answer to the challenge that we face in…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsMay I, too, associate myself with the tributes that have been paid, and that no doubt will be paid for the rest of the day, to both Sir David and James Brokenshire? They were…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI am grateful to my hon. Friend who has consistently raised these matters. He is right to say that we want to deliver the provisions of the Nationality and Borders Bill as quickly…18 Oct 2021HANSARDSmall Boat Channel CrossingsI would expect nothing less from the hon. Gentleman given that we are beginning line-by-line consideration of the Bill tomorrow in Committee. I have no doubt that he will have…18 Oct 2021HANSARDAgri-food Industry: Labour ShortagesThe hon. Gentleman raises an interesting question. He should know that the Home Office and Ministers in the Home Office are working constructively with DEFRA, which is regularly…18 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Fourth sitting)Q Obviously, the Government are very clear that we want to send an unequivocal message to those responsible for people smuggling that what they do simply will not be tolerated and…23 Sept 2021