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Border Control Scheme

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

535 c699-700 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Yvette Cooper | 535 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) (Urgent Question): To ask for an urgent statement on border control this summer, covering private fl...

Damian Green | 535 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) Let me apologise for the fact that the Home Secretary cannot be here; she is attending an important ...

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Mark Pawsey | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) I have been contacted in the past hour by a constituent who is a photographer, who carried metal box...

Yvette Cooper | 535 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) Last week, the Home Secretary told the House:"““the only incident of which I am aware when passenger...

Damian Green | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) Any overseas flight that arrives in Northern Ireland from outside the common travel area will be tre...

Damian Green | 535 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that point. He said some disobliging things about me in...

Damian Green | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) Because we are working much better than ever before with airports overseas, so we can check who is g...

Damian Green | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) What used to happen under the previous Government was that flights were designated as high, medium o...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) May I push the Minister for a little further clarification on the issue of flight warnings? There ar...

Speaker | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman has put his concerns on the record, but we must stick to the Minister's re...

Meg Hillier | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister please tell the House how many of our border operations he has visited in the past...

Gerald Kaufman | 535 c701 (Link to this contribution) Is it not a fact that what the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister said in this House last Wednesd...

Rob Wilson | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) Has the Labour party passed on all the details that it says it has received from border agency staff...

Bob Blackman | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend the Minister remind the House what lessons have been learned as a result of the ...

Speaker | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are grateful to the hon. Lady for getting her views on the record. Unfortunately for her, ...

Damian Green | 535 c701 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. He makes a good point about the border force. The men and women at ...

Damian Green | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) All the big ones. I have been to all the major airports and all the major UKBA centres, as well as t...

Damian Green | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. I am sorry that the Opposition cannot elevate the tone of the debate....

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) Durham Tees Valley airport is in my constituency. How secure can the people of Teesside and Durham b...

Alex Cunningham | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) Part of Durham Tees Valley airport is in my constituency, and today we are getting conflicting infor...

Damian Green | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right to point out the shambles that was in place before, but as you pointed...

Karl Turner | 535 c707 (Link to this contribution) The question has been asked several times, and I know that the Minister is frustrated, but I wonder ...

Paul Goggins | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Home Secretary's policy was consistent across the country, will the Minister confirm ...

Owen Smith | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) The Minister keeps reassuring us that the system he has put in place is now safer, but UKBA staff ar...

Tony Baldry | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) Could the Minister kindly explain what happened under the previous Government before the change to t...

Kris Hopkins | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that the previous Government's reckless open-door immigration policy resulte...

Claire O'Neill | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) As somebody who has spent their fair share of time with wailing infants in long immigration queues, ...

Damian Green | 535 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) As I have said several times, every private flight is checked against the warnings index. [Interrupt...

Damian Green | 535 c707 (Link to this contribution) I am tempted to revive that old parliamentary chestnut: ““I refer the hon. Gentleman to the answer I...

Damian Green | 535 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) Nothing that I have said this morning is in any way inconsistent with what the Home Secretary said l...

Damian Green | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) I am indeed aware of that, particularly at Stansted and Gatwick, and it is one of the priorities at ...

Tom Brake | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that it is this coalition Government who are going to have to clear up the m...

Damian Green | 535 c702 (Link to this contribution) The point of the pilot and of the private jets policy was to improve checks. The idea that there wer...

Damian Green | 535 c700-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a shame that the shadow Home Secretary wrote that rant before she listened to what I said in r...

David Evennett | 535 c701 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend's statement on private flights and the need for consistency across the coun...

Damian Green | 535 c705 (Link to this contribution) The pilot is still being evaluated, but my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has already said tha...

Neil Parish | 535 c707 (Link to this contribution) Is it not necessary for us to bring in these tighter controls, because of the 2.2 million net immigr...

Henry Smith | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) For years there has been contamination of people arriving at entry points on domestic and internatio...

Damian Green | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) The definition is a flight that is not a scheduled flight. The number of airports that they fly into...

Damian Green | 535 c701 (Link to this contribution) The answer to both the right hon. Gentleman's questions is straightforwardly no.

Philip Hollobone | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) My constituents want to know the definition of private flights, which of the main airports they fly ...

Damian Green | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) For the fourth time, I will tell Opposition Members—I wish their Whips could have thought of more th...

Damian Green | 535 c704 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman actually makes a very deep and important point. Different people working at the f...

Damian Green | 535 c707 (Link to this contribution) There are two separate issues here, both of which need addressing. One is the vast number of people ...

Tony Lloyd | 535 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Home Secretary asked the Minister a direct question. What he has announced this morning i...

Nick de Bois | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) In his evidence to the Home Affairs Committee, Brodie Clark said that he had sanctioned the relaxati...

Damian Green | 535 c706 (Link to this contribution) For understandable reasons I have not been following what Brodie Clark has been saying over the past...

Lord Beamish | 535 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) about Du...

Damian Green | 535 c703 (Link to this contribution) The Labour party, predictably, has passed the information on to newspapers, so we know what it has. ...

Gerry Sutcliffe | 535 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) The public know that this is a shambles. We are getting the facts today only because of an urgent qu...

Subjects

Aviation Aircraft Customs Borders Immigration controls Private sector Protection

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