Nationality and Borders Bill

You have been in for 11 years!

The British people have had enough of being told that none of these issues matter. They have had ...

Who says that?

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like to either intervene or listen.

The British people hav...

I hope my right hon. Friend will forgive me if I intervene in this way, but she is giving the imp...

I thank my right hon. Friend for making that point, which the Labour party should also recognise....

Will the Home Secretary give way?

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will give way shortly.

Our plan will increase the fairness of our system so that we can b...

One of the big problems at present is the very long time that it takes to determine asylum applic...

I shall go on to refer specifically to the time it takes to process cases, but the right hon. Gen...

Will the Home Secretary explain why the number of initial decisions—not appeals—made by the Home ...

I thank the right hon. Lady for her question. In relation to the initial decision making—this poi...

Will the Secretary of State give way?

I will shortly, but I am going to make a bit of progress. It is important to reflect on the fact ...

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I will give way shortly, but I want to make progress first. The Opposition argue that it is wrong...

The public seem to want a fair, fast and affordable system, so can the Home Secretary tell the pu...

In fact, the taxpayer will be saving money in the long run. We already spend over £1 billion a ye...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will.

I am extremely grateful. Is not the truth of the matter that too often our courts exaggerate the ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his question and for his observation. There are a range of aspec...

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Will the Secretary of State give way?

No, I will not.

For years, people have risked their lives to enter our country, such as tho...

We are receiving emails saying that this Bill is somehow cruel to illegal migrants, but is not th...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are many ways in which we can address this proble...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

No, I am giving way to the hon. Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), who has been waiting patient...

I thank the Home Secretary for giving way. One of the things that greatly concerns me and others ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. I will shortly address some of these wider issues, b...

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I will not give way.

As a nation, we have always stepped up to support refugees in need, an...

Will the right hon. Lady give way?

No, I will not give way.

Since 2015, more than 25,000 refugees have been resettled in the U...

May I gently say to the right hon. Lady that I do not think the issue is whether we are mean spir...

If the hon. Gentleman had followed much of the work undertaken by the Home Office prior to the in...

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I will give way just one more time.

This is a really important point. The vast majority of people who, as the Secretary of State said...

There are a number of points to make on the hon. Gentleman’s intervention. First and foremost, no...

If I may just finish my remarks before I go back to my speech. That is why our focus is on creati...

My right hon. Friend is making a very good speech. As we can see from the Bill, much needs to be ...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. He will know from our discussions that we will continue...

I cannot let the comment from the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) just pass. He made the p...

My hon. Friend is right, and that is where the system becomes conflated and there is no separatio...

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I will not give way. [Interruption.] I have been very generous in taking interventions, and I wou...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

Will the Home Secretary give way?

I will not; I have given way several times now.

Our intention is to address the wider syste...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

No, I will not.

Will the Home Secretary give way?

The hon. Gentleman will have his chance to speak shortly.

There has been an alarming increa...

The Home Secretary is being most generous in giving way. The time in which people are granted lea...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Without going into detail here, I give him the assuranc...

Will the Home Secretary give way?

No, I will not give way. I have taken many interventions.

We are also closing the loophole ...

At the hands of the Conservative party.

By successive Governments, if the hon. Gentleman had read the Wendy Williams report about Windrus...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.

Order. I hesitate to interrupt the Home Secretary, but does the hon. Lady have an actual point of...

As the Home Secretary is very eloquently saying, this is an incredibly important piece of legisla...

Order. That is not a point of order. We are starting a debate, the purpose of which is to allow t...

This is an important Bill, and it is right that we have given the House plenty of time to debate ...

Order. Before I call the shadow Home Secretary—[Interruption.] I would be obliged if the hon. Mem...

I beg to move,

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Nationality and Bor...

Given that there seems to be unanimity that the Bill should be interpreted in the light of the re...

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. In reality, this is a Bill based on an immigration plan t...

If the right hon. Gentleman had listened to the Home Secretary, he would realise we are not on ab...

With the greatest respect, if the hon. Gentleman had listened to me, he would realise they were n...

The right hon. Gentleman says it has imploded under the Conservative Government. I remind him tha...

If the hon. Member wants to hear about statistics, try these: the share of applications that rece...

I note the right hon. Gentleman has made the point about initial decisions. Does he not recognise...

I will come to that point in a moment because I have deep concerns about that. The right hon. Lad...

I do apologise to the right hon. Gentleman and he is very gracious in giving way, but can I just ...

With great respect to the right hon. Lady, she was making the point about late filing of evidence...

I am very grateful to my right hon. Friend for giving way, and I agree with him about this point....

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to raise that. Unfortunately, I have had no such indicat...

Disgusting.

The hon. Gentleman says that that is disgusting, but it is what is in the Bill. I suggest he take...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. This might be me being naive, as I am quite new ...

The Bill is wrong and it will not solve the problem. Let me just continue with the critique. The ...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

No, I have already given way to the hon. Lady.

The Government should seek to rebuild the sy...

What?

I suggest that the hon. Gentleman reads clause 48 of the Bill, because he will discover in it a h...

The shadow Home Secretary talks about the Dubs amendment and those 480 children. I remind the Hou...

Well, we will see how proud their record is in a moment when we go through it. Let me just say to...

Not shadow.

I certainly stand corrected on that. The point is that there were local authorities that were wil...

Torfaen—zero.

Absolute utter nonsense. I have visited the Syrian refugees in Torfaen, so I hope the Minister wi...

indicated dissent.

The Home Secretary shakes her head, but in the 2019 report “Responding to irregular migration: A ...

To reiterate, I am sorry but we have to start with a time limit of four minutes, simply because s...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will try to get in as many points as I can in those four minut...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that the most compassionate thing we can do to help these people,...

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. That is why the work being done—I shall refer to this lat...

Does the right hon. Lady agree that part of the concern is about ensuring that the modern slavery...

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for her intervention, because I am coming on to that point. ...

I am afraid that I regard this as a dreadful Bill, and the Refugee Council was absolutely right t...

What about democratic oversight?

Absolutely, as there is in Canada.

Members from all parties in this House, sitting on the F...

Does my hon. Friend agree that on many occasions, particularly for those seeking asylum on the ba...

My hon. Friend makes a good point. There are all sorts of problems with provisions in the Bill th...

Just like in any other European country.

Well, the dentistry profession and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees say that it ...

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and the ...

I am grateful to be able to follow the right hon. Member for Romsey and Southampton North (Caroli...

It has not halted.

I will give way to the Minister if he wants to tell me how many places will be included in the re...

It never stopped. When we met the 20,000 commitment in February this year, the UK resettlement sc...

Everybody understands the pressures of the coronavirus crisis, but what we need is a commitment t...

When this country voted to take back control, clearly it had immigration in mind. As we all know—...

This Bill on such an important issue to my constituents and to the country is sadly a flawed piec...

I rise to speak in broad support of the Bill, which offers a comprehensive reform of an asylum sy...

Let me start by saying that I categorically reject this Bill and its proposers. The UK has a long...

The United Kingdom has always been a generous, open and welcoming country. We help some of the mo...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak in this debate.

History is go...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), although, i...

Before I call the hon. Member for Cardiff North, I should tell the House that after the right hon...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker.

The Bill is not about improving legislation, but about hat...

I draw the House’s attention to my declaration in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests.