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HANSARDBorders and AsylumI welcome the campaigning the hon. Lady has done to support students in Gaza, because the situation we are seeing there is horrendous. The Foreign Secretary will shortly make a…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend makes an important point. We have increased illegal working arrests and raids by 50% and significantly increased the fines for employers engaged in illegal working.…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThe right hon. Member will know that there are different identity checks as part of the asylum system. Those are tested through the courts. One of the reasons asylum claims can be…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumAs my hon. Friend says, we made clear in our manifesto that we will end asylum hotel use. We need to put an end to asylum hotel use right across the country, and to do so in an…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumWe have set out that this is a pilot, and that we want to build and grow it. There is no cap on the overall numbers to go as part of the pilot, and we need to build it as we go.…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI welcome the points my hon. Friend makes about legal advice on migration issues. Immigration is not a devolved issue, and we need to ensure high standards of legal advice right…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI know that the hon. Member will be as concerned as I am about the lives at risk in small boat crossings, and we have to do everything we can to prevent those dangerous boat…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend makes a really important point. Ours is a country that has been strengthened through many generations by people coming to our shores from all over the world to…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThere is a big problem with the small boats, as we have seen the criminal gangs change their tactics, particularly to exploit the French rules meaning that, up until now, France…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThat is not my understanding of what those on the Opposition Front Bench were arguing for; that was about the Human Rights Act risking there being more issues with the domestic…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI recognise the important points that my hon. Friend makes and the work that Lord Dubs has done over many years, particularly in championing unaccompanied child refugees. We have…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI know that this is an issue in which the hon. Member has taken a very strong interest over a long period of time. Since he and I first started discussing this issue many years…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMany of those disruptions are exactly about pursuing gangs, and there are more than 40 high-profile and high-value disruptions that the National Crime Agency itself has said are…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumAs my hon. Friend will know, many student visas do not allow students to bring dependants to the United Kingdom. There will be exceptional circumstances, such as those involving…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right. We need to end asylum hotels across the board, and that means ensuring that we can clear the appeals backlogs through major appeals reform, because that…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumObviously, we do not want asylum accommodation in inappropriate places. We must reduce the overall size of the asylum system, while ensuring that we can move people, when…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThe French pilot scheme involves allowing people who apply lawfully and go through proper security checks to come to the UK on a one-for-one basis, as we return those who have…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThe pilot scheme we have agreed with France involves, for the first time, our being able to detain people on their arrival in Dover—this has not happened before—and return them to…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is right to talk about international law, and the ECHR being part of the reason why we have been able to get international agreements; other countries know that we…01 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy hon. Friend is a former Home Office Minister; she has a lot of experience with immigration case issues, and real concerns about the advice people are given and the way that…01 Sept 2025