UK-Rwanda Partnership

I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of the statement.

There is total chaos in the ...

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The calls for more from the right hon. Lady’s own Back Benchers are well placed. I was hoping tha...

Can people please focus on asking a question and not making statements, and please can we hear th...

I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement. Clearly, he is becoming incredibly familiar with ...

The UK takes its international obligations incredibly seriously. The Human Rights Act is, in part...

When the permanent secretary came before the Home Affairs Select Committee last week, he was unab...

Let me make it absolutely clear: we remain committed to our promise to publish the costs of the s...

The Prime Minister said that he would not allow a foreign court to block his Rwanda plans—meaning...

Throughout this plan, we have made it clear that we will remain in conformity with international ...

Humpty Dumpty said, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor l...

It is a shame that the hon. Lady’s comments are clearly based on what I can only assume is a curs...

The new Home Secretary will be aware and welcome the fact that he will be gauged, indeed judged, ...

The right is for Ministers to decide on our response to a rule 39 application. That is in the Bil...

The United States Department of State’s annual country report on Rwanda says that among its human...

The Supreme Court, when it handed down its decision, focused on two elements of the situation in ...

It is long overdue that we got to grips with the current levels of both legal and illegal immigra...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. We do not do this because it is easy, or because it is ...

I am sure, Mr Deputy Speaker, you will soon be updating us on when the next personal statement mi...

This legislation does not change our relationship with the ECHR.

Some in this House take the view that our proposals are not the way to treat asylum seekers. Does...

This country has always been, and remains, incredibly generous to people who are fleeing persecut...

Government briefings suggest that the Government wanted to go further with the Bill but the Rwand...

That speculation is not accurate. Within the whole of this negotiation, we have always made it cl...

Over the past few years, we have taken over half a million refugees from different parts of the w...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is so important for us to break the trade in human misery ...

I want to know how much this shambles has cost the British taxpayer so far and how much it will c...

Again, I find this rather strange. As the House knows, I have already answered that in saying tha...

The UK-Rwanda partnership is a long-standing one. I first went to the country 15 years ago and ha...

My hon. Friend asks an incredibly important question. I have recently returned from Rwanda. I hav...

I am afraid that I have heard nothing from the Home Secretary today that persuades me that the Rw...

Obviously, my plan is to make this work.

My right hon. Friend is to be congratulated on his commendable efforts to address a problem that ...

I can give my right hon. Friend the reassurance that we do not envisage that this will frustrate ...

Can the Home Secretary confirm that he went to Rwanda intending to get a treaty that went much fu...

The hon. Member’s question started with an error, and got worse from that point onwards. The simp...

I thank the Home Secretary for his efforts to tackle a problem that is of great concern to my con...

The provision for individual claims is nothing to do with the safety of Rwanda, and that is the i...

The ECHR is fundamental to the operation of our Senedd in Wales. Has the Home Secretary taken ful...

We have no intention of leaving the ECHR, so the hon. Member’s concerns are unwarranted.

The Home Secretary has delivered his deal with his typical efficiency and transparency, and that ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right that this is part of a plan that has a number of elements. The...

The Home Secretary has twice refused to answer the question of whether the Immigration Minister h...

The hon. Gentleman always has an amusing turn of phrase, but his question is not one for me. If h...

I echo the Home Secretary’s praise of the patience shown by Rwanda, whose integrity has been seve...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point, which proves that, when the UK makes our case...

The reality is that the Government are making a mockery of international law and playing with peo...

We are not breaking international law.

Clearly, the most important thing about this proposal is to deter desperate people from leaving a...

My intention, and the intention of the Government, is to ensure that this is operationalised as q...

The Home Secretary has continuously said that this Bill complies with international law. How does...

Because what the statement on the front of the Bill says is clear—the words are unambiguous —but ...

As I know all too well, it is easy to throw rocks and criticise from the sidelines on immigration...

As my hon. Friend will understand, I do not want to go into too much detail about all the operati...

Four days before International Human Rights Day, it is shameful that we are seeking to disapply p...

As the hon. Lady will know, the advice of the Attorney General—who is not in her place any more—i...

Will the legislation mean that it is the British Government, elected by the British people, who d...

The point is that it is the job of this Government to make decisions about immigration policy. I ...

The Home Office safeguarding Minister, the hon. Member for Newbury (Laura Farris), has confirmed ...

That has been confirmed. I regularly speak to Ministers in the Department but, ultimately, these ...

If the Immigration Minister, who is a good man, has resigned over this Bill, that is deeply worry...

The point is that all legal and judicial processes have an appeal process. By extension of my rig...

Order. I remind the Home Secretary to face forward, so that his voice is picked up more easily an...

The Home Secretary and the Government will be aware that there has been some surprise at the reci...

The hon. Gentleman asks a very important question. This part of the treaty reflects the previous ...

Does my right hon. Friend agree that all these human rights laws were simply not designed for the...

These frameworks, of which we were a founding nation, were designed to deal with some of the issu...

If Rwanda is a safe jurisdiction, as the Home Secretary is trying to legislate to say that it is,...

The Supreme Court judgment to which we are responding highlighted two particular areas, and the t...

Like the Home Secretary, my constituents want to welcome genuine asylum seekers such as the Ukrai...

The Bill will go through the House, and although we are seeking to do this at pace, it will go th...

Does the Home Secretary agree that our constituents would expect that, before we vote on any meas...

The Government have committed to releasing the figures on an annual basis—[Interruption.] The poi...

Will my right hon. Friend pay tribute to the Immigration Minister, who has apparently just resign...

I have said from this Dispatch Box and in a number of other locations how much I value the work o...

From the point of view of those of us who believe in the rule of law, the separation of powers an...

What I am absolutely proud of is the fact that we are seeking to break the business model of the ...

I have been listening carefully to the questions from Opposition Members, and there have been a g...

My right hon. Friend has made a fundamental point. Every story I read of people who have drowned ...

The deputy chair of the Conservative Party has said that the Government should just ignore the la...

We absolutely abide by international law.

Immigration, by any admission, is a complex, long-standing and developing challenge. I have liste...

The timing of the passage of any Bill is in the hands of the two Chambers of this Parliament. We ...

I am opposed to the entirety of the Bill on policy grounds, but, as a Northern Ireland MP, I have...

We are absolutely committed to maintaining peace in Northern Ireland. It is something that many p...

Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Biruta has said tonight:

“Without lawful behaviour by the ...

No.

The Home Secretary wants us to take great comfort from the fact that the treaty with Rwanda will ...

We will absolutely remain in compliance with international law.

The Home Secretary has used some choice language in this place, and in recent times he associated...

I am not quite sure what the point of that question was, Mr Deputy Speaker. If the hon. Gentleman...

In her personal statement this afternoon, the former Home Secretary, the right hon. and learned M...

Again, I am not at all sure how that question has anything to do with the proposals that we have ...

It is clear to the country that the Government are riven with division and chaos on this issue. S...

Order. Did the hon. Member just swear?

No, he quoted the Home Secretary!

Order. Please use other words.

Okay. In an earlier answer, the Home Secretary said that the Immigration Minister would be attend...

It will be the Immigration Minister.

Thank you very much for your statement, Home Secretary, and for answering questions for well over...

On a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. Accuracy is incredibly important in this House, and I wou...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. A number of countries are exploring third-coun...

So it is not true.

I’m sorry?

“Exploring” is not “copying”.

A number of countries are exploring third-country asylum processing. The example that springs mos...

Further to that point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. On a point of accuracy, those who are being mo...

We will now move on.