Immigration Bill

I thank the Minister for giving way once again. On that point, Citizens UK has identified 157 liv...

We are processing 50 cases, 24 of which we have accepted, but a number of those cases are complic...

I want to challenge the notion that the EU-Turkey deal is a success. I was at the Idomeni camp on...

I attended last week’s Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg and I spoke to the ...

The Minister stands there and says we are playing our absolute part, but he told us two minutes a...

The contribution we are making stands in very positive terms compared with what other European pa...

I thank the Labour Peers and the many Cross Benchers who brought these amendments before the Hous...

Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that, given the emails and anguish-filled letters we receiv...

The number of constituents who have contacted me and other Members—I am sure that this is true ac...

My hon. and learned Friend is exactly right. He has been to the camps in France, and I have been ...

I have been to the camps in Calais and Dunkirk, and, like many other people, I was shocked. I hav...

I have similarly visited Dunkirk, where I was appalled by the inhumane conditions, and no one sho...

As the hon. Gentleman will have seen, the amendment proposes a scheme for taking children, and th...

Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

I will make some progress, if I may, and then I will of course take further interventions.

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Does my hon. and learned Friend agree that the story he has recounted gives the lie to or shows t...

I would put it this way: in this country, we recognise that children cannot access their rights w...

I hesitate to intervene on my hon. and learned Friend’s excellent speech, but does he wonder why ...

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his very powerful intervention, which puts the pull fac...

The hon. and learned Gentleman is being very generous in giving way. On the pull factor, I agree ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very powerful point. I know that he has been very supportive of the ca...

I was particularly moved by yesterday’s article by the former Archbishop, Rowan Williams. He comp...

I speak for Members from across the whole House when I say that history will judge how we respond...

We have talked a lot about pull factors, but it is worth remembering for a moment the push factor...

I am grateful for that intervention. It reminds us that applying the “pull factor” argument in re...

The hon. and learned Gentleman must be aware of the Minister’s statement that we will take more c...

I support the statement that was made last week about up to 3,000 children being taken from the r...

rose—

I will give way, but I am conscious that lots of other people want to get in, and by taking inter...

This is a very sensitive and difficult issue. The hon. and learned Gentleman mentioned vulnerabil...

I am sorry, but I really do not want to go down this path. One of the 10,000 who has disappeared ...

On the absolute ban on the detention of pregnant women, which I support, I am glad that the hon. ...

I hope that I made it clear that I support the Government’s changed position and recognise how fa...

For me, as a parent, the decision on whether to support the amendment made to the Bill in the oth...

I thank hon. Members throughout the House for their generous support as I make a phased return to...

Does the hon. Lady accept that, although the Government’s position sounds tough, the fairest and ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his remarks, but frankly the situation is just not safe. It is onl...

Order. Before I call the next speaker, I remind Members that we have to conclude the debate at 9....

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire), and welcome her bac...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the new national dispersal system announced by the Minister last w...

Yes, I support the Government’s incentives, but I also support the measures that will be a direct...

As a fellow Kent MP, I, too, am well aware of the enormous burden on Kent in trying to look after...

Absolutely. My hon. Friend knows that over the past 12 months we have had significant representat...

I am sure the hon. Lady is aware that the Scottish Government offered to take, at the very least,...

I absolutely accept that young people are coming to this country to be reunited with their famili...

When I was first elected, an Opposition Member told me that there were two divisions in the House...

I am a constituency MP and I represent the people of Rochester and Strood. I have had a lot of re...

In September 2015, Save the Children released a paper called “The extreme vulnerability of unacco...

We have a proud tradition going back centuries of taking in refugees. In particular, before and d...

Absolutely. As we heard earlier, Lord Dubs was one of those who benefited from that very scheme.<...

We have heard some passionate speeches about unimaginably difficult conditions, but we talk as if...

I do not disagree with very much that the hon. Gentleman, my colleague on the Home Affairs Commit...

It is a pleasure to follow the SNP spokesman, the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkin...

I welcome the speech made by the hon. Member for Bedford (Richard Fuller) and pay tribute to the ...

The right hon. Lady makes an important point about the number of refugees and the number of young...

The 3,000 figure was proposed by Save the Children, at a time when it thought that 26,000 childre...

As always, my right hon. Friend is speaking passionately. I was at that meeting, and the eyewitne...

My hon. Friend is exactly right. Let me make my position clear. I think that other countries shou...

The right hon. Lady is making an important point about family reunification. Does she accept that...

The Minister is right to say that we should be supporting family reunion, but, as I said to him i...

This is the last time I shall intervene on the right hon. Lady; I do not want to interrupt her fl...

The Minister knows that I have welcomed many of the things that he has announced at every stage. ...

Order. There is just over half an hour to go and I see probably a dozen people trying to get in t...

I shall endeavour to live up to that, Mr Speaker. Like Save the Children, I believe that every ch...

Does my hon. Friend agree that children are being trafficked younger and younger, and that they f...

I would be keen to look at that in more detail. I am unsure exactly how it might help in this par...

Order. I am sorry, but to help the House there will have to be a formal three-minute limit on Bac...

First, I should refer to my relevant entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests: last ...

If ever a debate showed the need not to have a time limit, this is it, especially given the compl...

Last autumn, I used my first Prime Minister’s questions as party leader to press the Prime Minist...

I wish to speak on the Dubs amendment. May I start by thanking the Minister for Immigration and t...

Order. Alison McGovern.

The speech that I follow was a fine one. There have been many fine speeches on both sides of the ...

I absolutely support much of the Government’s programme on refugees, what they are doing with £2....

We all know that the vast majority of the terrified, friendless and profoundly vulnerable child r...

We are approaching the last moments of the debate, so I will confine my remarks to one amendment ...

Two minutes each would be better.

This evening, we have had lots of passionate speeches about children from Members on both sides o...

There are two minutes to go.

I would have liked to have more of an opportunity to speak, as I was a member of the Immigration ...

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. I would like to declare an interest as a trustee of the Human Tr...

I am extremely grateful to the hon. Lady for her characteristic grace and courtesy in raising tha...