Migration Statistics

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. As I said, the survey relies on full and frank answers from t...

With current technology, there is no reason not to have accurate figures, never mind estimates. C...

My hon. Friend highlights the complexity of moving purely to a counting in and counting out syste...

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I give way to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs.

I am sorry that I missed the opening remarks of the hon. Gentleman’s very important speech. May I...

I do share that concern, but if the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will deal with that i...

Order. I say to the official who just approached the Minister: please do not do that again. This ...

That, perhaps, is one of the shortcomings of Westminster Hall, Mr Walker.

The question is h...

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this debate, Mr Walker. The Public Administration ...

The e-Borders scheme is a particular concern of the Home Affairs Committee. Does the hon. Gentlem...

That is absolutely right, and I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for pointing it out.

Is my hon. Friend aware that the normal price for a visa is £83, but for people staying a year or...

We should be able to collect the data rapidly, as we all recognise. I agree entirely with my hon....

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship of this important debate, Mr Walker. I did not ...

That is an interesting observation. The task of checking people’s luggage and what liquids they a...

Absolutely. I agree with the hon. Gentleman: of course it can be done. It is an easy win for this...

Can I clarify what is being suggested here? I think that my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich an...

I say to the hon. Gentleman, who is an assiduous member of the Home Affairs Committee, that we sh...

Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that one of the reasons why many parties to contracts provide f...

The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. This is about the public knowing—it is public money...

Thank you for calling me to speak, Chairman Walker—if that does not sound too much like Chairman ...

I agree with everything that the hon. Gentleman has just said. There are too many myths about imm...

That is absolutely right. Clear, accurate and granular information, data and statistics will enab...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the £2 million, which my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and No...

The Home Office is doing difficult work in difficult circumstances of coalition. I agree with my ...

Is the hon. Gentleman telling the House that, because of the problem with statistics, the Governm...

A very apposite question. No, I am saying that we do not have any idea about whether these target...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship today, Mr Walker. In fact, it is such a pleasur...

The right hon. Gentleman is making one or two political points, but will he clarify whether the L...

I anticipated that question and looked at the matter prior to today’s debate. The Library of the ...

Does the shadow Minister share my concern that an implication of contracts providing for arbitrat...

I take two points from major computing contracts. First, there is a lack of public scrutiny and t...

Just as an aside, if the implementation is no good, that means that the policy was no good, becau...

I will give the hon. Gentleman a simple answer: yes. It is extremely important that we can make s...

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Walker.

I thank my hon. Friend the Me...

In my remarks, I raised the question of the 2011 study conducted by the Home Office into the expa...

My hon. Friend did mention that specific aspect. The current discussions with the ONS indicate th...

I appreciate some of the assurances the Minister is giving. General key concerns are whether the ...

I will come to exit checks. The way in which advance passenger information data can be used to su...

The point I was making about the ESTA system was that—unlike, potentially, our visa system—the Am...

The right hon. Gentleman draws me on to the e-Borders system and its programme. We hear the point...

Will the Minister say what the position is on non-scheduled traffic—in particular, private flight...

The right hon. Gentleman will be aware that Border Force, which is led by Sir Charles Montgomery,...

Thank you, Mr Brady, for taking the Chair. I thank all the right hon. and hon. Members who contri...