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HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationMy hon. Friend is right that this is a practical issue. To disrupt the criminal gangs operating along the French coast, we need to disrupt their supply chains and to be able to go…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationMy hon. Friend is right that the previous record year was 2022 and that in the first half of this year, when the previous Government were still in office, the arrivals were higher…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationWe need to clear the backlog and the chaos in the asylum system that we have inherited. There is already a detention system as part of both the immigration and asylum systems.…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationMy hon. Friend is right. We inherited a situation where the Conservatives let the entire system get way out of control. They let criminal gangs take hold along the channel and…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe hon. Gentleman raises an important issue. As he will know, we do not routinely comment on either proscription or de-proscription, or on any of those processes, but I make it…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationWe are obviously reviewing the situation as swiftly as possible. We have withdrawn the previous Syria country guidance, because it would not have been appropriate to take…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe right hon. Member will know that the Home Office has the power to deny entry to those who are not conducive to the public good. Those are important powers that we continue to…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe right hon. Gentleman makes a really important point about the work upstream. We did include interior Ministers from north Africa as part of the G7 discussions in Italy in…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationPeople clearly want to see practical changes on the ground, which is why the partnership working we have been taking forward—not just with France but with Belgium, the…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe hon. Gentleman makes an important point about the continuing instability. There is a lot that we simply do not know about how events will play out in Syria. Those who have…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationWe have been clear that we need to reduce both legal and illegal migration because we have seen significant increases in both over the past five years. That is why we are setting…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationMy hon. Friend asks an important question. The criminal gangs operate across borders and, frankly, they have been able to get away with it because of lack of co-ordination between…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe hon. Member will be aware that we have long had a common travel area across the UK and Ireland, which of course has meant close security co-operation and information-sharing…11 Dec 2024HANSARDBorder Security: CollaborationThe hon. Member raised asylum claims from Syria. This is something we discussed in the Calais group, and all five countries are taking the same approach of recognising that we…11 Dec 2024HANSARDCalais GroupToday I, jointly with German Interior Minister Faeser, convened Calais Group partners Belgium, France and the Netherlands in London, in the presence of the European Commission and…10 Dec 2024HANSARDIrregular Migration: UK-Germany Joint Action PlanOrganised immigration crime is an international problem that requires international solutions. That is why we are substantially scaling up collaboration with international…10 Dec 2024HANSARDMigration and Border SecurityMy hon. Friend is right. The former Immigration Minister and now shadow Justice Secretary also said that the net migration figures were “a day of shame for the Conservative…02 Dec 2024HANSARDMigration and Border SecurityIf anyone had believed that flights were going to go off to Rwanda this summer, the Conservatives would not have called the general election when they did. They would have hung on…02 Dec 2024HANSARDMigration and Border SecurityMy hon. Friend is right. If we go back just six years, there were barely any boat crossings. This criminal infrastructure was not in place along our borders, but we have seen it…02 Dec 2024HANSARDMigration and Border SecurityI welcome many of the points that the hon. Member has made. She is right to point to the lack of trust and confidence in the system as a result of the chaos of the last few years,…02 Dec 2024