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Debate on Tuesday, 13 May 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Chris Huhne. The answering member was Liam Byrne.

Immigration

Debate on a motion to approve the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (HC 321 2007-08). Members object, Division deferred till 14 May. (Agreed on division 354 to 51)

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
475 c1336-54 
Session
2007-08
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Deferred Divisions
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
Parliamentary proceedings
House of Commons
Immigration and human rights. Minutes of evidence 19 February 2008.
Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 475 c1447 (Link to this contribution) I now have to announce the result of a Division deferred from a previous day, on a Question relating...
Chris Huhne | 475 c1336-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That the Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules (House of Commons Paper No. 321), ...
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Damian Green | 475 c1340-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes I do, and if the right hon. Gentleman had been listening he would know that I made that point qu...
Andrew Dismore | 475 c1341-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Minister for Borders and Immigration gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Huma...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1342 (Link to this contribution) Before the idea of a mandatory rule came in, had my hon. Friend come across any evidence in his capa...
Damian Green | 475 c1338-9 (Link to this contribution) The Government are evidently in some difficulties over this instrument, and the problems arise essen...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1339 (Link to this contribution) I support the point that the hon. Gentleman is making. Is it also the case, as I understand it to be...
Damian Green | 475 c1339-40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, and, again, I hope that the Minister can address it. Clearly...
Lord Spellar | 475 c1340 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, will he be clear—he has not really touched on this—about whether...
Chris Huhne | 475 c1353 (Link to this contribution) In the light of his helpful remarks, will the Minister clarify whether any cases falling in the peri...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1353-4 (Link to this contribution) I will take the advice of my lawyers on that point first, if I may, and write to the hon. Gentleman ...
Chris Huhne | 475 c1354 (Link to this contribution) With the leave of the House, I will wind up the debate. I thank the Minister for his constructive re...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1353 (Link to this contribution) There are two caveats that I wish to add, but before I do so, I give way to the hon. Gentleman.
Damian Green | 475 c1353 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Minister brought up the subject of ratification. His point that the Government we...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1353 (Link to this contribution) I have nothing further to add to what my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary said in the House not ...
Lord Spellar | 475 c1349 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend outlines a number of cases. Can he explain why all those responsibilities should fall...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1351 (Link to this contribution) Yes and no. I agree with a large part of the sentiment that my hon. Friend expresses, and I will exp...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1351 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is familiar with the point about immigration lawyers and advisers, which I have raised ...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1350-1 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for Eastleigh (Chris Huhne) for giving us the opportunity to hold t...
Karen Buck | 475 c1351 (Link to this contribution) Is not the point that people who are in this country, rather than people making an application to co...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1352-3 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that, and I shall spell that out further in a moment. I want to make a number o...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1352 (Link to this contribution) I do not dissent at all from the proposition that the Minister has just put to us. On his earlier po...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1349 (Link to this contribution) Because we are dealing with immigration law affecting people resident in this country, and, in the c...
Fiona Mactaggart | 475 c1349-50 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief. I was prompted to speak by the intervention of my right hon. Friend the Member for...
Andrew Dismore | 475 c1342-3 (Link to this contribution) I must correct my hon. Friend. I am Chairman of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, not the Home Af...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1347-8 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a few points, but I will be very brief because I want to hear the Minister's reply to...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1346-7 (Link to this contribution) But not automatically, as my hon. Friend says. The failure might be accidental and unavoidable. It c...
Jeremy Corbyn | 475 c1348 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about what is, in reality, a kind of informal adoption. I was ...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1348 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will also have encountered youngsters who have come here legally a...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1343-5 (Link to this contribution) I think the Minister will be getting the message by now. My hon. Friend the Member for Eastleigh (Ch...
Liam Byrne | 475 c1351-2 (Link to this contribution) Progress is indeed being made on that. I know that the House will not necessarily welcome another Im...
Lord Spellar | 475 c1346 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that there should be any differentiation between those who have comple...
Simon Hughes | 475 c1346 (Link to this contribution) Like the hon. Member for Ashford, I do not dissent from the notion that there should be a requiremen...
Subjects
Immigration controls
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