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Adjournment debate on Tuesday, 2 February 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Soames of Fletching. The answering member was Phil Woolas.

Population and Immigration

Westminster hall adjournment debate on population and immigration.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
505 c1-24WH 
Session
2009-10
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
Proceeding contributions
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c7-8WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for all interventions, but particularly for the one just made by my hon. Friend. By al...
Lord Mann | 505 c6-7WH (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that there is a fundamental weakness in the assumption that led to t...
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Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c6WH (Link to this contribution) I shall continue to do so; the electorate will decide. I agree that there is a difference in policy ...
Damian Green | 505 c6WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is being generous in giving way again. Will he acknowledge the simple fact ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 505 c10WH (Link to this contribution) I just want to make it plain that one of the most important proposals that the balanced migration gr...
Mark Field | 505 c10WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister makes a fair point, but I am trying to open up a broader discussion on immigration issu...
Phil Woolas | 505 c9-10WH (Link to this contribution) I can assure the hon. Gentleman that that is certainly not the case, and would not even be possible....
Mark Field | 505 c8-9WH (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome today's debate, and thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) for...
Philip Hollobone | 505 c11-2WH (Link to this contribution) It is a huge privilege for me to follow three excellent speeches by three great parliamentarians—the...
Mark Field | 505 c10-1WH (Link to this contribution) That is a fair point. I am saying that we have no idea who is coming into this country, and those wh...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c13WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) on securing this debate. I am mindful of ...
Philip Hollobone | 505 c12-3WH (Link to this contribution) The voters might well prefer it, but it is the religious equivalent of going around with a paper bag...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c13-5WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's intervention, because it prompts me to say two things. First, I d...
Bob Spink | 505 c13WH (Link to this contribution) In 2005, at the last general election, I called for illegal immigrants to be sent back immediately a...
Phil Woolas | 505 c15WH (Link to this contribution) I am not denying the hon. Gentleman's point, but those figures are for net migration, which is affec...
Julian Brazier | 505 c15WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that there are a few minutes left for two of us to speak. I have a few footnotes to th...
Speaker | 505 c16WH (Link to this contribution) I call Andrew Turner for the briefest of vignettes.
Julian Brazier | 505 c15-6WH (Link to this contribution) The fact is that net migration was 180,000, even ignoring those who stayed illegally whom we do not ...
Andrew Turner | 505 c16WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) for again giving us the opportunity to...
Paul Rowen | 505 c16-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. O'Hara. I congratulate the hon. Member for Mi...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c17WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman saying that after the next election, the Liberals will be committed to taking ...
Damian Green | 505 c20-2WH (Link to this contribution) We are discussing that issue with business. We would put in place a quarterly release system, unlike...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c20WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman can freely attack me for being naive in asking this, but what would happen when t...
Damian Green | 505 c19-20WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames) has been tireless in pursuit of the belief tha...
Paul Rowen | 505 c18-9WH (Link to this contribution) We do not support the policy of a complete amnesty for all migrants introduced by the Mayor of Londo...
Andrew Turner | 505 c18WH (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the Liberals would propose a route to citizenship for illegal immigrants who...
Paul Rowen | 505 c17-8WH (Link to this contribution) Regardless of that, the fact is that both Labour and the Conservatives dismantled controls and there...
Damian Green | 505 c17WH (Link to this contribution) I would hate to see the hon. Gentleman doing the Minister's dirty work for him. In 1994, the control...
Paul Rowen | 505 c17WH (Link to this contribution) We believe that the debate on population obscures the real issue. It is easy to say that there shoul...
Julian Brazier | 505 c23WH (Link to this contribution) Surely the Minister must recognise that his own Government's human rights legislation has driven a c...
Phil Woolas | 505 c23WH (Link to this contribution) I do not think that you would allow me to go into human rights, Mr. O'Hara, but if the hon. Gentlema...
Phil Woolas | 505 c22-3WH (Link to this contribution) This has been a terrific debate, and I think that we all endorse the tribute paid to the hon. Member...
Speaker | 505 c24WH (Link to this contribution) Order. We must now turn our attention to the Thameslink programme.
Phil Woolas | 505 c23-4WH (Link to this contribution) I will move on to that definition. People talk about a projection. The ONS is not making a forecast ...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c23WH (Link to this contribution) I want to underscore the importance of having a second stage and of cutting the link between coming ...
Phil Woolas | 505 c24WH (Link to this contribution) The difference between the policies is that ours is workable. That is the reality. The introduction ...
Andrew Pelling | 505 c24WH (Link to this contribution) In all practicality, is there really that much difference between the two main parties' migration po...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c6WH (Link to this contribution) I shall give way first to the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) and then to my hon. Friend the ...
Damian Green | 505 c6WH (Link to this contribution) I was not laughing, but snorting with derision. Immigration was fine when the right hon. Gentleman a...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c6WH (Link to this contribution) The thought that I will be running "historically" as a Labour candidate has driven the Whip from the...
Bob Spink | 505 c5WH (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right to mention tolerance, which is a great tradition of our country. P...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c5-6WH (Link to this contribution) No, but think of what happens in Afghanistan. If the voters there feel that the "elected" Government...
Speaker | 505 c4WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Many hon. Members want to participate in the debate. I ask hon. Members to bear in mind the f...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 505 c5WH (Link to this contribution) I want to begin by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Soames). At a time when mos...
Peter Bottomley | 505 c2WH (Link to this contribution) I ask my hon. Friend to reflect, either now or later, on how that net immigration of 21,000 compares...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 505 c2-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an extremely important point. Of course, we are talking a...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 505 c1-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to debate the impact of immigration on the population of the Unit...
Subjects
Immigration Forecasts Population Statistics
Contains statistics
Yes
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