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HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right that crossings in August were at their lowest for several years even though there was the same level of crossing days as last summer. He will know that a…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI agree with the hon. Member about the importance of patriotism that brings our country together. That is what our flags symbolise and what our values as a country symbolise.…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right to welcome the Foreign Secretary’s introduction of sanctions for criminal smuggler gangs, and this is the first time that has been done. We also have…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI hope the Conservatives will support Gazan students being able to take up their places and scholarships in the UK, just as I hope they will also support the Border Security,…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right that the previous Government, including the shadow Home Secretary when he was Immigration Minister, were responsible for a huge increase in asylum hotels…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumWe are developing alternative approaches to asylum accommodation, including work with local councils that have come forward and with other Departments. We will provide an update…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI welcome my hon. Friend’s point. She is absolutely right to say that any comprehensive and effective approach—internationally, not just here in the UK—must consider the causes…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI, too, welcome the law enforcement work in my hon. Friend’s constituency. We have set up a domestic organised immigration crime taskforce to work across different police forces…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumUnfortunately, the Conservative Front Benchers want us to go back to the position that we inherited from the previous Government. Their freeze on asylum decisions would have left…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThe French Government have been undertaking a maritime review, and the Interior Minister has been strongly pursuing the issue to ensure that there can be intervention in French…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumHaving international law and abiding by it has helped us to get new agreements to return people who arrive by small boats. It is also helping us to work with other European…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI agree with the points made by the right hon. Member. The Prime Minister said last year that border security is a national security issue; he is right about that. He is also…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right that we need reforms, but we also need to recognise that international law can help to underpin international co-operation. The criminal gangs operate…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThe hon. Member refers to the Kindertransport and the important support for children it provided. The UK also took orphaned Jewish children from concentration camps and provided…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is exactly right. The Tories and Reform could start working with us tomorrow to speed up the passage of this crucial legislation, which would give our law…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI point out to the hon. Member that his party was in power during eight years in which criminal gangs were able to take hold along the borders and undermine our border security.…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumWe have been clear that we will end the use of the asylum hotels that were opened by the previous Government; we will close those asylum hotels. I hope that the hon. Gentleman…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI can tell my hon. Friend that we will end the use of asylum hotels. We will close the asylum hotels that the previous Government opened, including in his constituency; it is…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumEveryone has a right to be safe, and to respect. The pursuit of division, hatred and violence is never acceptable, in the immigration and asylum system or more widely across our…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumWe have made it clear that we need to end all asylum hotels, including the hotel in my hon. Friend’s constituency. It is because we believe in the UK’s long history of helping…01 Sept 2025