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HANSARDMigrationTwenty-seven lives were lost in the channel a year ago, and a criminal gang profited from sending people to their deaths. Will the Minister tell the House whether anyone has been…16 Nov 2022HANSARD National Security BillFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The reports of the case are very serious and raise some questions about how the Home Office has handled this case. We do not…16 Nov 2022HANSARDIllegal Cross-channel Movements: Discussions with French CounterpartIt is astonishing that the Home Secretary has not made an oral statement on this subject, given the number of people who want to ask questions. She is preventing full scrutiny of…14 Nov 2022HANSARDIllegal Cross-channel Movements: Discussions with French CounterpartThat is a totally nonsense answer. The Home Secretary obviously is not aware that former chief constables have warned that her Nationality and Borders Act 2022 makes it harder to…14 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThis motion provides for redactions if there are any national security concerns about the content of the information requested, and it provides for unredacted information to be…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe right hon. Lady makes an important point, because the standards in our public life and public institutions have depended on people respecting them and on people across public…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMy hon. Friend is right. There has been a real sense over many years now that the respect for standards in public life from the Government and the Conservative party has been…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe Minister is very kind in giving way. He will know that it has been reported in the papers that the Home Secretary, when she was Attorney General, was interviewed as part of…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe important point here is that Ministers have a responsibility for public safety, security and meeting and upholding standards. Part of the reason we are seeking this…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMy hon. Friend is exactly right on that. It is worse, as the Government do believe that standards on ethics and security should be upheld throughout the public sector or across…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe hon. Member is right that there are standards that have to be followed. When the issues are around important Government business, it is a problem when somebody has breached…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe Labour party has set out a whole series of policies, both on what needs to be done to get neighbourhood police back on the beat—I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman’s party has…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMembers will know that, at the time of the Skripal crisis, I disagreed with some of the words used by the right hon. Member for Islington North, and I was very clear about that in…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMy right hon. Friend makes a very important point. I hope the Select Committee will be able to get answers, because if the then Home Secretary, now the Business Secretary, the…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryPerhaps the hon. Gentleman will recall that what happened at Napier was that the Government ended up with a huge outbreak of more than 200 covid cases, at the height of a covid…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe issue is about whether or not the Home Secretary is continuing to breach the ministerial code. We know that on 19 October she had already broken the ministerial code twice,…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThe right hon. Gentleman is rewinding 12 years. We have had 12 years with a Conservative Government in place, and we have been very clear that this is about exceptional…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryThat is the problem. We have these reports in the papers and the allegations that have been made, and we must bear in mind that this is not simply about the security lapses that…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryMy hon. Friend makes a really important point: national security matters for all of us. This is a time when the national security threats that our country faces have changed. We…08 Nov 2022HANSARD Papers Relating to the Home SecretaryI beg to move, That, given the exceptional security concerns raised regarding the Rt Hon Member for Fareham serving as Secretary of State for the Home Department, this House: (1)…08 Nov 2022