New Clause 44 - Duty to deport in accordance with the Refugee Convention

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

It is at this occasion, traditionally, that those who have shouldered the burdens under your expert guidance of the Committee, Dr Murrison, thank all the officials—both the House officials...

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New Clause 44 - Duty to deport in accordance with the Refugee Convention

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I compliment the Father of the House on his ingenious approach to the slightly different signals, as the hon. Lady set out, that the international conventions, with their judge-made law, have...

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New Clause 41 - Asylum or refugee claims

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

New clause 41 would require the revocation of protection status or leave, or discontinuation of asylum claims, where an applicant returns to their country of origin. The Government are in...

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New Clause 37 - Asylum support repayment scheme

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Lady will have noticed that I have not dismissed the idea completely, but I do not think the idea is anywhere near a position where one could talk about how it might be practicable, and...

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New Clause 37 - Asylum support repayment scheme

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We inherited a system that was very siloed, where work was not really cross-departmental at all. One example that occurs to me is that the system dealing with all the legacy applications, which...

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New Clause 37 - Asylum support repayment scheme

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

New clause 37 would give the Secretary of State regulation-making powers to set out arrangements for asylum seekers to receive loans towards their maintenance and accommodation—but, as we...

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New Clause 36 - Access to accommodation centres: Immigration Enforcement

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the hon. Gentleman for that. I was trying to help the shadow Minister, because I thought he might be trying to talk about accommodation generally. If that is the case, we already have the...

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New Clause 36 - Access to accommodation centres: Immigration Enforcement

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I want to put something on the record before we vote. There is a specific meaning in law for the phrase “accommodation centres” under the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002....

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New Clause 36 - Access to accommodation centres: Immigration Enforcement

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

But they do not exist.

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New Clause 36 - Access to accommodation centres: Immigration Enforcement

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The new clause talks about accommodation centres, which do not exist. What does the hon. Gentleman mean by accommodation centres?

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New Clause 36 - Access to accommodation centres: Immigration Enforcement

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

New clause 36 seeks to provide a right of access upon request for Home Office teams working within immigration enforcement to asylum accommodation centres in order to visit those centres and...

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New Clause 34 - Offences and deportation

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

New clauses 34 and 42 reprise some of our debate on the last group of new clauses, but they also introduce the idea of the visa penalty that, as the hon. Member for Weald of Kent has just...

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New Clause 34 - Offences and deportation

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

On that point we agree, so why was his Government so tardy at actually deporting foreign national offenders when they were in office?

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New Clause 33 - Borders legislation: Human Rights Act

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I would respectfully say that the hon. Gentleman’s party had many, many years to think of a solution, and most of the cases that Opposition Members have raised today had their genesis in...

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New Clause 33 - Borders legislation: Human Rights Act

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am not sure how much of the debate we could have heard, Dr Murrison, had you made that observation at the beginning of it. I do not think this Government wish to join Belarus and Russia among...

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New Clause 27 - Repeal of certain provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I do not know what the hon. Gentleman had for lunch, but perhaps we should find out and get some of it ourselves. We can then all compete with the poet laureate and the virtuoso performance that...

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New Clause 27 - Repeal of certain provisions of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Did the hon. Gentleman really mean “swarm” in that context? That is quite emotive language.

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New Clause 26 - Age assessments: use of scientific methods

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The hon. Gentleman is being a bit mischievous. We are in the middle of an assessment of whether scientific age assessments work and at what level of capacity and detail we can trust them. I...

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New Clause 26 - Age assessments: use of scientific methods

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We are making a scientific assessment of how accurate and effective the methods are that could be used to make age assessments, and I hope to have some results from that work soon. What I do not...

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New Clause 26 - Age assessments: use of scientific methods

18 Mar 2025

Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill

Angela Eagle made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I start by endorsing what my hon. Friend the Member for Bournemouth East said about Dolores, Thomas Roberts’s mum, whom I met last night. She has gone through a searingly awful life...

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