Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

New clause 1 stands in my name and in the names of the hon. Members listed on the Order Paper. It...

First, I declare my interests in the register. Secondly, it is getting rather difficult to talk t...

A ten-minute rule Bill would have been good. In respect of new clause 29, which my hon. Friend is...

I have not actually come on to new clause 29 yet, and other people will speak to that point, but ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will—to whoever that was.

I am at the far end of the Chamber, but I thoroughly agree with the hon. Gentleman; I am very clo...

The hon. Gentleman is right. Actually, the Government have said all along that that is their inte...

It is a pleasure to return to the Chamber for the Report stage of this important Bill and to foll...

My hon. Friend is right. “No recourse to public funds” is one reason for what is happening in Lei...

My right hon. Friend, alongside the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, has done an awful lot of...

In addition to the imposition and the hardship that comes from “no recourse to public funds”, the...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. We spoke in favour of the “Lift the Ban...

Does my hon. Friend recognise that social care workers and NHS porters and cleaners—those who do ...

I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. In her capacity as Chair of the Home Affairs Committe...

I will speak to new clauses 7 to 10, but before I do, may I add my support to new clauses 2 and 2...

I completely agree with what my right hon. Friend is saying. Not only is his point correct, but I...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, to which I will return in a moment because it impinges o...

The right hon. Gentleman will be unsurprised to hear that I fully agree with everything that he h...

The hon. Gentleman is right: any stay is damaging. If someone was psychologically damaged before ...

My right hon. Friend is making an extremely compelling case, and I am proud to have signed his ne...

My hon. Friend pre-empts the point that I am about to come to. A few are villains, and I would be...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (Mr Davis). I am in t...

The point I make is that these are some of the most serious offenders, and, as I said, my constit...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

I will not give way any further.

I praise my hon. Friends for their commitment to protectin...

This Bill defines the type of country that Britain will be for decades to come and, more importan...

How would the hon. Gentleman react to the news that I had from my constituency that a professiona...

I question whether the hon. Lady’s constituents are leaving because of this Bill, but I welcome e...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I have given way already, so I am not going to do so again. I will make some progress first.

I tried once, and I will try again with another Conservative colleague on this very question. We ...

I am glad for that intervention. I am not here to say whose job it is, but one thing I can say is...

Order. The time limit is now five minutes and it is likely to be reduced further later on.

That was an interesting contribution from the hon. Member for Rother Valley (Alexander Stafford)....

I call Liz Saville Roberts.

Diolch yn fawr iawn, Mr Dirprwy Lefarydd.

I rise to speak to new clause 11 in the name of m...

I support the Bill, which I believe will make our immigration system better, and fairer. Some hon...

How welcoming was the hostile environment?

I remind the hon. Member that the hostile environment was created by the previous Labour Governme...

Does the hon. Gentleman feel that the Prime Minister should honour the pledge he made during the ...

What the Prime Minister sought to do during the election was to reassure anybody who was here and...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. On his point about encouraging people to apply for ...

If that is indeed the case, it is shameful. They should be doing everything in their power, from ...

The hon. Gentleman may rest assured that the Scottish Government are investing a lot of time and ...

I share the hon. Gentleman’s views on that issue. In fact, I will come to the seasonal agricultur...

I rise to speak against this Bill in general and for any new clause that seeks to end the hostile...

The hon. Lady keeps referring to this hostile environment. Let me just quote for her. In May 2007...

I will not apologise, but I will point out that the Conservative party has been in power for 10 y...

I am pleased to speak on the Bill, not least because immigration is a topic that can invoke the s...

We must not forget that this Bill arrives before us today in the context of the Conservatives’ ho...

Will the hon. Member give way?

I will not be taking any interventions; I need to make progress.

The hostile environment, f...

I am very glad that I sat in on this debate today to learn the origins of the hostile environment...

My hon. Friend gets it absolutely right about the misinformation that has been dispatched this mo...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, particularly in stressing that the issue is not the people bu...

I am afraid that this Bill fails on every conceivable measure of a humane and just immigration po...

Order. I am sorry but we have to move on.

There is clearly much to comment on in this Bill, but I rise specifically to speak in support of ...

As the hon. Gentleman has raised the point about Yarl’s Wood, does that not show that with experi...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. He is absolutely right. It is not simply the ca...

I was pleased to contribute on Second Reading of this Bill, and I am pleased to be able to speak ...

I concur with the point made by the hon. Member for Bracknell (James Sunderland) about armed serv...

Does the hon. Member agree that one of the big challenges for local authorities in making offers ...

Of necessity, the amendments that have been selected apply only to EEA and Swiss nationals. Will ...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely reasonable point. I am sure that the Minister, who will have li...

There are eight people on the call list and we have just over half an hour. If everybody sticks t...

I want primarily to address new clause 12, which appears in my name and the names of other hon. M...

I was pleased to serve on the Bill Committee, which was my first in this place. It was a whole fi...

We have to move on, sorry.

I speak in support of new clause 38, tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh West (Chri...

I was delighted to sit on the Bill Committee with my hon. Friends the Members for Bishop Auckland...

I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Before I start, I would like...

I support the contents of this Bill. It is straightforward and to the point: we are delivering on...

My hon. Friend is right about the balance between migration from outside the EU and from within i...

I agree with my right hon. Friend. Obviously, we want to reduce the numbers on immigration. We we...

Like many others, I have been inundated with briefings and questions regarding the Bill, and I un...

It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon). It is a pleasure ...

I have been listening to the Minister very carefully, and I repeat my earlier praise: he has a to...

I very much welcome my hon. Friend’s comments. Certainly, the Government look forward to working ...

Will the Minister give way?

I will not be able to; I just do not have the time.

Moving to new clause 29, I have listene...

Will the Minister give way?

I am afraid I do not have the time. A negotiated agreement for a state-to-state referral and tran...

Very briefly, I thank all Members who have contributed to the debate. I thank Robert McGeachy of ...

Before I put the Question, I have to remind Members who are proxy voting that they need to email ...

Under Standing Order No. 9(3) and the Order of the House of 18 May, I must now put the Questions ...

Order. In the exceptional circumstances that have just been reported to me about an error made in...