UK Parliament / Open data

Illegal Migration Bill

Proceeding contribution from Yvette Cooper (Labour) in the House of Commons on Monday, 13 March 2023. It occurred during Debate on bills on Illegal Migration Bill.

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

“Anyone who arrives illegally will be deemed inadmissible and either returned to the country they arrived from or a safe third country.”

As a result, 18,000 people were considered inadmissible to the UK asylum system and just 21 people were returned. That is just 0.1%. What has changed with this Bill, and what percentage of those deemed inadmissible does the Home Secretary expect to be returned?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
729 c578 
Session
2022-23
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Back to top