Refugee Family Reunion

That is fantastic, and Sheffield can be very proud. Becoming the first city of sanctuary is one o...

Does the hon. Gentleman agree that organisations such as Bath Welcomes Refugees in my constituenc...

Yes, and the more we are aware of and we see the big tide of support for refugees, the quieter th...

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Of course there are possible solutions to that, and one of them might come now.

I thank the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil) for giving way, in part ...

The hon. Lady’s pronunciation of my constituency was excellent. Some Members might feel they are ...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on his speech. He is right to draw attention to children’s righ...

That is absolutely correct; I could not have put it better myself. I thank the hon. Lady, who is ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, and I am sure everybody in the Chamber thinks what has bee...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for missing his lunch to be here. He makes a fantastic point about the...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil), and ...

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman mentions the delays in getting a decision. A group of refugees ...

I thank the hon. Lady for her intervention. I have heard that argument, which is an intriguing on...

I support everything that has just been said. However, there is a real problem with identifying p...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. It is extremely difficult and no one should downplay or min...

I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on the way he is making the argument for learning the English l...

The hon. Gentleman might say he makes a minor point, but it is an entirely fair one. I have been ...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that there is a live debate on these issues, which it why ...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention and I am sure Ministers will have heard his...

It truly is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Harborough (Neil O'Brien), who makes an exce...

I want, again, to put on the record the fact that we had Members from five political parties comi...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. It seems to me that, as he said, this argument ...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech, because she is talking about some of the practical ...

I thank my hon. Friend for making those excellent points. He is absolutely right to say that ther...

I am grateful to be called to speak in this hugely important debate. I am delighted to follow the...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right and highlights the importance of having this debate and ge...

The right hon. Gentleman makes a crucial point: this phenomenon of migration and the political un...

I thank my very good friend for allowing me to intervene on him. He cites migrants in Libya. I ha...

My hon. Friend—my very good friend—is absolutely right, and that shows how complicated and varieg...

The hon. Gentleman makes an interesting case. On a wider point of information, I think it was the...

That is a legitimate point, but this trafficking has not come from British policy. I do not think...

I am in broad agreement with much of what the hon. Gentleman says, but there is another aspect on...

The right hon. Gentleman is right that, clearly, criminals are not, in the first instance, drivin...

I ask my very good friend to forgive me for intervening a second time. I have had to deal with th...

The situation in Libya is very particular, and I do not want it to monopolise the closing moments...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Spelthorne (Kwasi Kwarteng) who made a very eloquent, ...

I want to ask the hon. Gentleman about a point I made in my speech. We cannot pretend that there ...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to flag up the trafficking and criminality. The UK, and th...

My hon. Friend makes a very good point, and one I can back up anecdotally. In the debate on 16 Ma...

That is a perfect example that illustrates the argument very strongly.

If we take the appro...

The hon. Gentleman is making some really important points, and I do not necessarily disagree with...

The hon. Gentleman makes a perfectly fair point, and we can have this debate when the Bill, I hop...

Having visited Libya and having been to Italy and seen migrant camps in Sicily and other parts of...

I am not absolutely sure what the hon. Gentleman is getting at. My view is that there is no evide...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuar...

My hon. Friend’s point goes squarely to the important question asked by the hon. Member for Cumbe...

My hon. Friend is clearly right. We have seen with the migration from the middle east and Africa—...

Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the BBC’s brilliant series “Exodus”, which gave ...

I thank my hon. Friend for raising that point. I am afraid that I have not seen that series, but ...

This is the 65th anniversary of the signing of the European convention on human rights. One of th...

Does my hon. Friend share my concern that, when the Prime Minister says “Brexit means Brexit”, th...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. He is right that, given the uncertainty about what will ...

A few weeks ago, I spent a few days in Djibouti in Africa, and I saw wave after wave of young peo...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He is right about refugee camps needing more sup...

I congratulate those who have brought forward this debate, particularly my hon. Friend the Member...

I did.

Well, you’re much better than Donald Trump.

Yes—credit where credit is due. That said, there is a lot more that we could do to help refugees ...

The hon. and learned Lady and I have had this exchange before. I recommend that she goes to the c...

That is as may be, but there is no proper, forensic evidence to support the argument that the Bil...

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I am going to make some progress, because I am conscious of the time. We will return to these iss...

I congratulate the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil) on securing the d...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent point—refugees are indeed to be valued. While they are flee...

I thank my hon. Friend for his contribution and wholeheartedly agree—[Interruption.]

Order. There seems to be a bit of concern—every Member who is here was here when I came into the ...

Will the Minister halt the Government’s current approach, which seems to be to make the lives of ...

Let me first congratulate the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Brendan MacNeil) on sec...

The Minister knows the issue.

I think it might have been the second time it had cropped up for me this afternoon. However, some...

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I apologise for not giving way; the hon. Lady has not been in her place for the entire debate, an...

I thank all the Members who have taken part in today’s debate, which, as the Immigration Minister...