Foreign National Offenders (Removal)

When people come to Britain, they should abide by the law, and the whole House wants to see forei...

I have to say to the right hon. Lady that that is a staggering response from the representative o...

Is it not common sense that a foreign national should not be released from prison until they can ...

My hon. Friend is always willing to come forward with practical proposals on this matter. Steps h...

The Home Secretary is right that successive Governments have failed to get a grip of this complex...

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his points. The Home Affairs Committee has consider...

The Home Secretary is completely right in saying that there are inherent problems in the law, and...

My hon. Friend makes a point that he has made on a number of occasions on the Charter of Fundamen...

May I remind the Home Secretary that, although it is true for certain that we did introduce the H...

I have acknowledged that we need to do more in this area, but one cannot look at what has happene...

I am sure that my right hon. Friend will not be surprised to discover that many of my constituent...

My hon. Friend raises an important issue and I know that it affects not only her constituents but...

According to the report, the Government have spent £167,000 on each and every foreign criminal th...

Of course we need to ensure that taxpayers’ money is being spent effectively, but the taxpayers’ ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the National Audit Office report highlights a number of diff...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his comments. He is absolutely right: I believe the ...

Home Secretary, when I go into a restaurant for a steak, it is known where the animal was born, w...

Of course I understand people’s frustration on the issue. It is this Government who have put in p...

Paragraph 3.19 of the NAO report talks about the benefits of the EU prisoner transfer agreement. ...

The prisoner transfer agreements are an important element of dealing with the issue. As my hon. F...

My constituent Elsie Giudici’s son was murdered in the most brutal way by a foreign national in h...

Absolutely. That was a serious and terrible case and our thoughts are with the hon. Gentleman’s c...

The report highlights the case of a sex offender convicted in 2000 as an overstayer who, far from...

We obviously want a process in which it is possible to deport such people quickly, and that is pa...

Will the Home Secretary amplify her response to my right hon. Friend the Member for Normanton, Po...

The number of people whom it has not been possible to remove in any particular year is the result...

Is it not right that on this, as on so many other matters, we are clearing up Labour’s mess? Afte...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We have had to deal with the system we inherited. We have mad...

Does the Home Secretary not realise that the report states that more than one in three of the fai...

The hon. Gentleman might like to note that the report states that over the past two years removal...

It is interesting to note the lack of interest from Labour Members in their own urgent question. ...

My hon. Friend puts his finger on one of the key points: the number of appeals that have led to d...

When a foreign national approaches the immigration desk at a point of entry into our country, if ...

When certain information about an individual is available, the systems in place at the border ena...

Can the Home Secretary confirm that approximately 400 of the missing foreign criminals arrived in...

It is certainly true that a number of cases still in the system predate this Government’s coming ...

My constituents cannot understand why someone who comes to this country and commits an offence th...

One of the changes we have made in the Immigration Act is to give us the power to deport people b...

Some of the higher profile cases in my constituency, particularly in Goole, relate to people who ...

I will make two points in response to my hon. Friend. First, in relation to dealing with those fr...

The Home Secretary is being incredibly generous to the Opposition. May I ask her to take herself ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is exactly the point I was making earlier. Labour has so...