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Illegal Migration Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 13 March 2023, in the House of Commons, led by Suella Braverman. The answering member was Yvette Cooper.
Second reading. Reasoned amendment negatived on division (249 to 312). Main question agreed to on division (312 to 250). Programme motion agreed to on division (312 to 248). Money resolution agreed to on division (310 to 246). King's recommendation signified.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
729 cc573-661 
Session
2022-23
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Illegal Migration Bill 2022-23
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Nigel Evans | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

The reasoned amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition has been selected.

As Me...

Suella Braverman | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

rose—


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Clive Lewis | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On the first page of the Bill, the Home Secretary has mad...

Nigel Evans | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the point of order. This is not something on which the Chair can adjudicate, bu...

Suella Braverman | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

The British public know that border...

Stuart C McDonald | 729 c573 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Home Secretary think that the British public want to see children and

Suella Braverman | 729 c574 (Link to this contribution)

This is what the British people want to see: they want to stop people dying in the channel. That ...

Catherine West | 729 c574 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Home Secretary for giving way so early in her speech. Is she personally satisfied tha...

Suella Braverman | 729 c574 (Link to this contribution)

I will go into this in detail, but yes, vulnerable people will be receiving appropriate safeguard...

Mark Jenkinson | 729 c574 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Home Secretary agree that when 70 Labour MPs, including the Leader of the Opposition, si...

Suella Braverman | 729 c574 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend puts it very well. What we have here is naive do-gooders who would rather campaign...

Suella Braverman | 729 cc574-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am going to make some progress.

The reality is that the system is simply unfair. It is un...

Andrea Leadsom | 729 c575 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend agree that in the last couple of years, when we have seen exponential g...

Suella Braverman | 729 c575 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend puts it very well. We now have a sophisticated, well resourced, multibillion...

Suella Braverman | 729 c575 (Link to this contribution)

I am going to make progress.

Despite the reasonable concerns that we have raised on several...

George Howarth | 729 c575 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am sure you will agree with the Home Secretary that we ...

Nigel Evans | 729 c575 (Link to this contribution)

I think in this particular case it is a matter for the individual person making the speech. I wil...

Suella Braverman | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate your instruction to all our colleagues, Mr Deputy Speaker.

The way to stop the...

Jim Shannon | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

As the Secretary of State probably knows, I chair the all-party parliamentary group on internatio...

Suella Braverman | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

We have a proud and extensive tradition of offering refuge to hundreds of thousands of people who...

John Redwood | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

Is the Home Secretary also worried that the criminal gangs that are exploiting people in this dre...

Suella Braverman | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that my right hon. Friend raises a very worrying fact about what we are seeing. When ...

Joanna Cherry | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

People who are same-sex attracted and trans people are not covered by anti-discrimination laws in...

Suella Braverman | 729 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure the hon. and learned Lady has read the High Court judgment, which is an exhaustive and ...

Suella Braverman | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

I have to make some progress. I have taken quite a lot of interventions, I am afraid.

Richard Graham | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. and learned Friend give way?

Suella Braverman | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

I will take one last intervention.

Richard Graham | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful to the Home Secretary. I find it odd that so many Opposition Members are tryin...

Nigel Evans | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I want not just temperate language but temperate behaviour.

Kirsten Oswald | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Can you advise on how we might correct the record? The pe...

Richard Graham | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. No one in this House wishes to cause any offen...

Nigel Evans | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I have a couple of points before we resume. Interventions are now eating into the time all...

Suella Braverman | 729 c577 (Link to this contribution)

I agree wholeheartedly with my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Richard Graham). He is abso...

Suella Braverman | 729 c578 (Link to this contribution)

I am going to make some progress. A lot of Members want to contribute to this debate.

The U...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c578 (Link to this contribution)

The former Home Secretary, the right hon. Member for Witham (Priti Patel), said:

“Anyone wh...

Suella Braverman | 729 c579 (Link to this contribution)

I have to correct the right hon. Lady on the fallacy under which she is operating. We are returni...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 729 c579 (Link to this contribution)

I wonder if my right hon. and learned Friend would make a point of clarification. She has implied...

Suella Braverman | 729 c579 (Link to this contribution)

We have an extensive system of screening for everyone who arrives in the UK via a small boat. Tha...

Suella Braverman | 729 c579 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry, but I am going to have to make some progress. When our world-leading Modern Slavery A...

Jess Phillips | 729 c579 (Link to this contribution)

Can the Home Secretary tell this House how many of that 17,000 increase was made up of British pe...

Suella Braverman | 729 cc580-1 (Link to this contribution)

What we have seen is that a large and growing proportion of modern slavery claims have been made ...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c581 (Link to this contribution)

The Home Secretary has just admitted that Rwanda does not have thousands of places. She will know...

Suella Braverman | 729 cc581-2 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Member should read our agreement with Rwanda before she makes a comment such as th...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c582 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“t...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the hon. Member if he will now support our proposals for a cross-border police...

Tom Hunt | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

I actually have another question. Would the right hon. Member explain why the Leader of the Oppos...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

Immigration law is important, but the problem is that, at the moment, a huge amount of immigratio...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. I am also grateful for the kind comments tha...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

The former Prime Minister and former Home Secretary is experienced enough to know that that is no...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the former Prime Minister; she and I have asked each other questions for so ma...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady, but does she not accept that, between the late 1990s and th...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c583 (Link to this contribution)

The important point that the former Prime Minister addresses is that in the late ’90s there was a...

Bell Ribeiro-Addy | 729 c584 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend, like me, get really annoyed when she hears Government Members talk abo...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c584 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right that the Conservatives have to take responsibility for 13 years in govern...

Alex Sobel | 729 c584 (Link to this contribution)

The UK was one of the instigators of the 1951 refugee convention, because before the war the UK G...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c585 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. Those are damning words that we have heard from the Board of Deputies an...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c585 (Link to this contribution)

The Immigration Minister shakes his head, but he said in a statement in December in this House th...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c585 (Link to this contribution)

I give way first to my hon. Friend.

Andrew Gwynne | 729 c585 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased with the moderate way in which my right hon. Friend is putting forward a very sound ...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c585 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes an important point. In order to have co-operation on return agreements, on a...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c586 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way to the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Caroline Lucas) and then to the hon. M...

Caroline Lucas | 729 c586 (Link to this contribution)

Does the right hon. Lady share my deep concern about the placeholder clause 49, which seeks to le...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c586 (Link to this contribution)

I think it adds to the chaos within this piece of legislation that the Government have not worked...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c586 (Link to this contribution)

I give way to the hon. Member for Eastleigh, who has been patient. I will then make some progress...

Paul Holmes | 729 c586 (Link to this contribution)

As is her right, the shadow Home Secretary is outlining her objection to this piece of legislatio...

Yvette Cooper | 729 cc586-7 (Link to this contribution)

Indeed, I am very happy to. I hope the hon. Member will support our proposal for a cross-border p...

Jonathan Gullis | 729 c587 (Link to this contribution)

My focus goes back to clause 49, which looks specifically at interim measures of the Strasbourg c...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c587 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should have put that question to the Home Secretary, because he appear...

Edward Leigh | 729 c587 (Link to this contribution)

A responsible Opposition must have a plan. We all agree that we have to stop these boats, but the...

Yvette Cooper | 729 cc588-9 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. Member is just kidding himself if he thinks that any of the Government’s plan is a...

Shailesh Vara | 729 c589 (Link to this contribution)

I am most grateful to the right hon. Lady for giving way. Which parts of France are such that peo...

Yvette Cooper | 729 cc589-590 (Link to this contribution)

As the hon. Member knows, the majority of people who are seeking asylum and arrive in France stay...

Wayne David | 729 c590 (Link to this contribution)

Does the shadow Home Secretary share my concern that there was not pre-legislative consultation w...

Yvette Cooper | 729 cc590-1 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right, and the Children’s Commissioner is appalled by some of the measures in t...

Simon Hoare | 729 c591 (Link to this contribution)

Will the right hon. Lady accept that many on the Government side of the House—me included—will vo...

Yvette Cooper | 729 c591 (Link to this contribution)

I do recognise that there are Members on the Government Benches who are deeply troubled by many o...

Nigel Evans | 729 cc591-2 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Theresa May will get six minutes, then we are on to the Scottish National party spokespers...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 729 cc592-3 (Link to this contribution)

Having been Home Secretary for six years I understand the pressures to deal with illegal migratio...

Robert Buckland | 729 c593 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for mentioning human trafficking. I conducted a Court of Ap...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 729 cc593-4 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his work and his recognition of the differe...

Alison Thewliss | 729 cc594-7 (Link to this contribution)

This refugee ban Bill is nothing but an abhorrent dog whistle, and my colleagues and I on the SNP...

Tim Loughton | 729 c596 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady mentions safe and legal routes. I am very keen that we need greater definition in t...

Alison Thewliss | 729 cc596-8 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman knows that the vast majority of people who come over are accepted as asylum se...

Alison Thewliss | 729 c598 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman would like to give me some experience from his constituents of how difficul...

Scott Benton | 729 c598 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is speaking of safe and legal routes. Given that there are more than 100 million di...

Alison Thewliss | 729 cc598-9 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman knew anything at all, he would know that my Glasgow Central constituency ha...

Gavin Newlands | 729 c599 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is indeed right. The Erskine Bridge hotel is potentially the largest such hotel in...

Alison Thewliss | 729 cc599-600 (Link to this contribution)

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend’s sentiments. We should all be very worried about the rise...

Nigel Evans | 729 c600 (Link to this contribution)

Order. There is a six-minute limit on the next two speakers, and then the limit will be three min...

Robert Buckland | 729 cc600-1 (Link to this contribution)

As I listen to this debate I, frankly, get more and more depressed. What we hear is an artificial...

Stephen Hammond | 729 c601 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that, if the Government were to look at proposed new ...

Robert Buckland | 729 cc601-2 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right. It is going to be vital that there is clear guidance. We have been here ...

Diana Johnson | 729 cc602-4 (Link to this contribution)

To follow up on that point about the issue of tone, despite the strong views held about this Bill...

John Hayes | 729 c604 (Link to this contribution)

Countries mean more than their borders. National character, shared heritage and the institutions ...

George Howarth | 729 cc604-5 (Link to this contribution)

I have to say that the right hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Sir John Hayes) make...

Matt Warman | 729 cc605-6 (Link to this contribution)

Many in this House want to say that the Government are inciting people’s worst instincts on immig...

Khalid Mahmood | 729 c606 (Link to this contribution)

The words of the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt Warman) must have some meaning for him...

Khalid Mahmood | 729 c606 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister shakes his head. If he tried getting out of Afghanistan, he would see what the issue...

Robert Neill | 729 cc606-7 (Link to this contribution)

I echo the words of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buc...

Stephen Hammond | 729 c607 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend accept that a number of Conservative Members support the Bill tonight on the ...

Robert Neill | 729 cc607-8 (Link to this contribution)

I have great faith in the legal input of the Attorney General and the advice of senior Treasury c...

Apsana Begum | 729 c608 (Link to this contribution)

Just when I think that I cannot be shocked any further by this Government’s inhumanity, they try ...

Tom Randall | 729 cc608-9 (Link to this contribution)

We are a rich country—the world’s fifth largest economy. We have international obligations, and i...

Alistair Carmichael | 729 cc609-610 (Link to this contribution)

Listening to the hon. Member for Gedling (Tom Randall), it is difficult to avoid the conclusion t...

Iain Duncan Smith | 729 cc610-1 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to make a simple point, because in the time available that is all we can do. I will draw a...

Clive Efford | 729 cc611-2 (Link to this contribution)

We need to tone down the debate. Let us be clear: no one on the Opposition Benches wants the smal...

Vicky Ford | 729 cc612-3 (Link to this contribution)

We are very lucky to live in a country people want to escape to, not a country people want to esc...

Joanna Cherry | 729 c613 (Link to this contribution)

As Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I will focus on aspects of the Bill that potenti...

William Cash | 729 cc613-4 (Link to this contribution)

I fundamentally disagree with almost everything that the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh So...

Ian Byrne | 729 cc614-5 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Mr Speaker—it is an unexpected pleasure.

I will be voting against the Bill today...

Scott Benton | 729 cc615-6 (Link to this contribution)

Both the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary have made it clear that tackling illegal immigrati...

Nadia Whittome | 729 cc616-7 (Link to this contribution)

Let me remind the hon. Member for Blackpool South (Scott Benton) that the reason our public servi...

Sara Britcliffe | 729 c617 (Link to this contribution)

This country, including the people in my constituency of Hyndburn and Haslingden, is amazingly ki...

Claudia Webbe | 729 cc617-8 (Link to this contribution)

It is frankly frightening that we are at the second stage of a Bill that begins with an effective...

Lindsay Hoyle | 729 c618 (Link to this contribution)

Order. In fairness, I want to get everybody in, so please help each other and help me.

8.32...

Sally-Ann Hart | 729 cc618-9 (Link to this contribution)

Sovereign states have a duty to protect their borders from the illegal movement of drugs, contrab...

Andrew Gwynne | 729 cc619-620 (Link to this contribution)

I despair at the tone of this debate and the dog whistle, the false argument—we have just heard i...

Kieran Mullan | 729 cc620-1 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to support this policy because I believe it is fair, sensible and in keeping with the UK r...

Stuart C McDonald | 729 cc621-2 (Link to this contribution)

This dehumanising Bill will not stop boats, but it is no exaggeration to say that it will destroy...

Robert Syms | 729 c622 (Link to this contribution)

All western countries have immigration controls. They have rules and a system that people have to...

Bell Ribeiro-Addy | 729 cc622-3 (Link to this contribution)

The Government and their immediate predecessor have not tried to formulate workable policy on thi...

Edward Leigh | 729 cc623-4 (Link to this contribution)

I have been trying for two years to get a young girl, Maira Shahbaz, into this country. Aged 14, ...

Gavin Robinson | 729 cc624-5 (Link to this contribution)

Back in 2019, the company that provides accommodation for asylum seekers in Northern Ireland hous...

Marco Longhi | 729 cc625-6 (Link to this contribution)

I entered politics in 1999 and, since then, having become a Member of this place in 2019, I have ...

Paul Blomfield | 729 cc626-7 (Link to this contribution)

I served on the Nationality and Borders Bill Committee, where we were told time and again that th...

Ben Spencer | 729 c627 (Link to this contribution)

Our immigration and asylum system must be fair and able to support people fleeing violence and pe...

Caroline Lucas | 729 cc627-8 (Link to this contribution)

This immoral, deeply cruel and divisive Bill breaks international law, rides roughshod over human...

Gareth Bacon | 729 cc628-9 (Link to this contribution)

I will support the Bill this evening. The whole point of the Bill—its overriding objective—is to ...

Sam Tarry | 729 cc629-630 (Link to this contribution)

My constituency is the most diverse in the entire country; 80% of our community has heritage from...

Sam Tarry | 729 c630 (Link to this contribution)

Madam Deputy Speaker, I will finish simply by saying that if the desire is to prevent children fr...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 729 c630 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member knows that you do not address directly other hon. Members.

9.12 pm

James Daly | 729 cc630-1 (Link to this contribution)

After that extraordinary contribution, which mirrored a number of contributions we have heard, le...

Tommy Sheppard | 729 cc631-2 (Link to this contribution)

Gary Lineker and others are right to caution about the use of language in this debate, but I thin...

Jane Stevenson | 729 cc632-3 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for the chance to say a few words in this debate. This is an issue that has be...

Ian Lavery | 729 c633 (Link to this contribution)

I wonder what our international partners across the globe are thinking about this Bill and this d...

Siobhan Baillie | 729 cc633-4 (Link to this contribution)

The public expect action on small boats and illegal migration. The main issues raised with me are...

Andy McDonald | 729 cc634-5 (Link to this contribution)

We can agree or disagree with Gary Lineker on his choice of words, but he was perfectly entitled ...

Jack Brereton | 729 cc635-6 (Link to this contribution)

For my constituents, the Bill is long awaited. They want us to crack down on the horrific people ...

Sarah Owen | 729 c636 (Link to this contribution)

We have heard a shamefully grim level of debate from some Government Members. The debate has lack...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 729 c637 (Link to this contribution)

Order. It is obvious that not everyone will get in. The final speakers—they know who they are—hav...

David Simmonds | 729 c637 (Link to this contribution)

Away from the noise and heat, there are a number of elements of the Bill that are to be welcomed ...

Zarah Sultana | 729 cc637-8 (Link to this contribution)

Last year, child poverty nearly doubled, workers’ wages fell at the fastest rate in decades and t...

Brendan Clarke-Smith | 729 c638 (Link to this contribution)

I will continue the trend of highlights without commentary. Of the 45,000 people who crossed the ...

Paula Barker | 729 cc638-9 (Link to this contribution)

The Government have failed to build a system that takes on the refugee and migrant-related challe...

Stephen Kinnock | 729 cc639-641 (Link to this contribution)

Because this has been such an incredibly well-subscribed debate, in the time available to me I wi...

Robert Jenrick | 729 cc641-2 (Link to this contribution)

This has been a passionate debate characterised by many excellent speeches, and I commend among o...

Robert Jenrick | 729 cc642-3 (Link to this contribution)

No, I will not.

Nor could the shadow Home Secretary explain what these migrants, the overwh...

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