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Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 26 April 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Charles Clarke.

Foreign Nationals (Deportation and Removal)

Statement on the deportation and removal of foreign nationals.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
445 c573-89 
Session
2005-06
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deportation and Removal of Foreign Nationals
Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Written statements
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) Order. No rule has been broken, but one of my duties is to try and gauge how long a statement should...
Charles Clarke | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a distinguished parliamentarian. Though there are failings in the Home Office,...
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Nicholas Winterton | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary accept that for democracy to work, there should be respect in this House and...
Charles Clarke | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely ready to do that. I will follow through my hon. Friend’s suggestion and I thank him ...
Mike Hall | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) The matter is extremely serious. Will he reconsider the information that he is prepared to put befor...
Charles Clarke | 445 c584 (Link to this contribution) I accept that responsibility. Perhaps I should take the opportunity to make it clear that the commen...
John Hemming | 445 c584 (Link to this contribution) The Home Secretary’s use of the passive voice makes me feel that the Government are in office, but n...
Charles Clarke | 445 c584 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right about public confidence. That is my single biggest concern in the whole matt...
Patrick Hall | 445 c584 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will no doubt agree that one of the important issues to consider in this matter...
Charles Clarke | 445 c584 (Link to this contribution) There is a misunderstanding that I must clear up. When sentencing takes place, the judge recommends ...
Angela C Smith | 445 c587 (Link to this contribution) I have constituents in Sheffield who will be worried about the situation. Will my right hon. Friend ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c586-7 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, I cannot give that commitment under EU law. What I can tell him, which ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c587 (Link to this contribution) I am considering doing that to strengthen the system. Unfortunately, it is not only my hon. Friend’s...
Charles Clarke | 445 c586 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has not quite got it straight. The 288 cases, of which 83 have been started, 53 c...
Daniel Kawczynski | 445 c586 (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about some of the foreign nationals who are from European Union countries, because of...
Charles Clarke | 445 c586 (Link to this contribution) The instruction has been issued that all such assessments should take place before the end of the se...
Lord Khan of Tooting | 445 c585 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that one of the reasons for the problems is that sentences and reco...
Sammy Wilson | 445 c586 (Link to this contribution) I note from the Home Secretary’s statement that since August, 288 cases should have been considered,...
Charles Clarke | 445 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to describe the situation in that way. As he knows, the length of sentences ...
Anne Main | 445 c588 (Link to this contribution) Were the people who had committed serious sexual offences put on the sex offenders register before t...
Julian Brazier | 445 c588 (Link to this contribution) May I raise the case of Sungaradazzo Mudgyiwa, which I have raised with the Home Office in questions...
Charles Clarke | 445 c588-9 (Link to this contribution) I was. That phrase has been taken up by the right hon. Member for Haltemprice and Howden (David Davi...
Richard Ottaway | 445 c588 (Link to this contribution) When the Home Secretary said on ““Newsnight”” last night that very few foreign nationals had been re...
Charles Clarke | 445 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) The resources that we have allocated are adequate for that process at this time. If I reach a differ...
Gordon Banks | 445 c587 (Link to this contribution) Today, we have heard from both the Home Secretary and the Prime Minister about the increased resourc...
Charles Clarke | 445 c587 (Link to this contribution) The key fact is that between February 1999 and March 2006 1,000 people who should have been consider...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 445 c587 (Link to this contribution) In today’s Prime Minister’s questions, we learned that the Prime Minister did not know a key fact wh...
Ben Wallace | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) Given that it is 24 hours since the Home Secretary personally took charge of the issue, if any more ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) In that case, may I courteously suggest through you, Mr. Speaker, that he opens his ears?
Charles Clarke | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, I have taken responsibility for the matter not for 24 hours, but for the whole time ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) I have dealt with that matter as fully as I intend to.
Crispin Blunt | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) When a judge makes a recommendation to the Home Secretary concerning deportation which is not acted ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that I am in contempt of court. As the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone...
Charles Clarke | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) I have given the reason a number of times. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was present earl...
David TC Davies | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary tell us how many times in total he has offered his resignation to the Prime ...
Nick Clegg | 445 c576 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, No. 10 was reported as saying that it is"““unreasonable to expect Ministers to know what ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) I do apologise; I have apologised; and I continue to do so. It is not right that this should be the ...
Speaker | 445 c573 (Link to this contribution) Order. The House wanted a statement yesterday. The statement is here, and we must listen to the Home...
Charles Clarke | 445 c573 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I would like to make a statement on deportation and removal of foreign nationals. A...
Charles Clarke | 445 c575 (Link to this contribution) First, it is absolutely untrue that the Government neglect public safety. Public safety is rightly t...
David Davis | 445 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) I have to say to the House that I respond to the Home Secretary’s statement with regret, which is no...
Charles Clarke | 445 c575 (Link to this contribution) I think that there are three points that I want to make. [Hon. Members: ““Resign!””] I am terribly ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have dealt with every single one of those points, so I will not repeat myself.
David Howarth | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) Coming back to the point about the amount of legislation, is that not one of the most galling aspect...
Anne Snelgrove | 445 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend may be aware that my office experienced some difficulties last year with the im...
Charles Clarke | 445 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has put her finger on the problem. It is important to make those decisions while peop...
Sally Keeble | 445 c581 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement on a matter that is of great concern to my constituents, ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) I do not have information about Scotland to hand but, as I told the hon. Member for Belfast, East (M...
Pete Wishart | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) May I tell the Secretary of State that the events of the past 24 hours have been met with huge conce...
Charles Clarke | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, my hon. Friend will be shocked to hear that I agree with him on his second point. He ...
Stephen Pound | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) No one would deny that this is a damnably serious business. I pay tribute to Members such as the hon...
Viscount Hailsham | 445 c582 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred to systemic failure. Does he accept that that extends to Ministers...
Mike Gapes | 445 c583 (Link to this contribution) The statement referred to the introduction of a new system in 1999. Can the Home Secretary confirm t...
Charles Clarke | 445 c583 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must give the right hon. Gentleman the same answer that I gave his right hon. Frie...
Eric Forth | 445 c583 (Link to this contribution) How many of those criminals had a previous criminal record, either here or in their own country?
Charles Clarke | 445 c583 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. One of my regrets is that this whole business obscures the fact that th...
Charles Clarke | 445 c583 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who is right. As a matter of practical politics, I generally do not...
Lynne Jones | 445 c579 (Link to this contribution) On 10 April I wrote to the immigration and nationality directorate about the case of Paul Omorui, a ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c579 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend the assurance that I will look immediately into the case and answer her di...
Lord Spellar | 445 c578 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the way in which he has commendably come to the House and acc...
Charles Clarke | 445 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) I begin by paying tribute to my parliamentary neighbour, the hon. Member for South Norfolk (Mr. Baco...
Lord Howard of Lympne | 445 c578 (Link to this contribution) Last night the Home Secretary told Jon Snow that he would not resign unless it could be shown that w...
Charles Clarke | 445 c578 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with my right hon. Friend and his implicit criticism. That is why I have, as Home...
Keith Vaz | 445 c577 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the information that the Home Secretary has given this morning, but may I remind him that ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) I think that there are two points here. First, on the various aspects of information that the hon. G...
Richard Bacon | 445 c577 (Link to this contribution) I shall give the Home Secretary credit for one thing: at least he has not tried to claim that yester...
Charles Clarke | 445 c577 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I completely agree with him about the extent of the systemic...
Charles Clarke | 445 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman is probably the only Member of the House from whom I would not ...
Edward Leigh | 445 c580-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for phoning me yesterday morning. I do not want to get involved in the po...
Charles Clarke | 445 c581 (Link to this contribution) I repeat to the hon. Gentleman what I said to his colleague on the Committee: the PAC has conducted ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c580 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right, in that I am sure that his constituents and everyone want the situati...
Lindsay Hoyle | 445 c580 (Link to this contribution) Obviously this issue is serious, and no one can shy away from it. May I say to my right hon. Friend ...
Speaker | 445 c580 (Link to this contribution) Order. It will not do if hon. Members are shouting across the Chamber. I once again remind the House...
Charles Clarke | 445 c580 (Link to this contribution) As I said, we are proceeding on that. I have given figures on where we are, and I said that I would ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c579-80 (Link to this contribution) I agree with quite a lot of that. Since I have been Home Secretary I have tried to organise the Home...
Mark Todd | 445 c579 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary agree that there is substantial evidence of overload, in political, administ...
Peter Robinson | 445 c579 (Link to this contribution) I share with many on the Opposition side of the House concern about the serious failing of the Home ...
James Duddridge | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) Why did the Home Secretary offer to resign?
John Hayes | 445 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) The House and the nation are entitled to know how severe the crisis would have to be before the Home...
Lord Redwood | 445 c580 (Link to this contribution) Presumably the released offenders are now either on benefit or in employment paying tax, so how can ...
Charles Clarke | 445 c579 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give the hon. Gentleman the full information that he requests. I understand that there are ...
Lord Barker of Battle | 445 c589 (Link to this contribution) Did the Home Secretary offer his resignation to the Prime Minister before the Prime Minister was in ...
Julian Lewis | 445 c586 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary answer the specific question put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Sou...
Charles Clarke | 445 c588 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Lady that precisely the same procedures on the sex offenders register applied to t...
Charles Clarke | 445 c588 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman has said, the Court of Appeal judgment on Zimbabwe went the Government’s way. ...
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Deportation Foreign nationals Offenders Prisoners Prisoners' release
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