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Alternatives to Child Detention

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

511 c211-34WH 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Damian Green | 511 c232WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that clarification. The position was not entirely clear. The point was rightly ma...

Diane Abbott | 511 c232-3WH (Link to this contribution) On the question of delays, one thing that successive Ministers in the previous Administration never ...

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Damian Green | 511 c231-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely sure that I understood that question. Is the hon. Lady saying that those who were ...

Keith Vaz | 511 c232WH (Link to this contribution) When we visited, there were no children there. I was just visiting Harmondsworth.

Damian Green | 511 c230-1WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. This is the second time this week that something has happened to me that I suspect will ...

Meg Hillier | 511 c231WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that those who were taken out of detention were never brought back into de...

Damian Green | 511 c230WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the unanimous support for this policy from all sides of the Chamber.

Diane Abbott | 511 c230WH (Link to this contribution) First and last time.

Diane Abbott | 511 c229-30WH (Link to this contribution) I remember our conversations with great clarity. My hon. Friend is a good friend and colleague, but ...

Meg Hillier | 511 c230WH (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend. Perhaps I could remind her that we both agreed that we should not le...

Damian Green | 511 c233WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with that point and will seek to take the friendly advice that the hon. Lady offers across t...

Damian Green | 511 c233-4WH (Link to this contribution) Absolutely so. The whole Government are working very hard to ensure that those who have no right to ...

Lord Barwell | 511 c233WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that one of the other reasons for delay and one that causes great frustratio...

Damian Green | 511 c211-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the opportunity today to draw attention to the issue of children in immigrati...

Damian Green | 511 c212WH (Link to this contribution) I will of course give way to the newly elected Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs.

Keith Vaz | 511 c212WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister very much for letting me intervene. I welcome this review, which is very much i...

Julian Huppert | 511 c224WH (Link to this contribution) It is indeed a problem getting in; my predecessor, David Howarth, tried to get in and was told that ...

Julian Huppert | 511 c225-6WH (Link to this contribution) Indeed; I plan to be persistent. I accept the fact that unexpected circumstances sometimes mean that...

Diane Abbott | 511 c225WH (Link to this contribution) I urge the hon. Gentleman to be persistent. I had to be, but we cannot have MPs in effect being barr...

Diane Abbott | 511 c229WH (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?

Meg Hillier | 511 c229WH (Link to this contribution) Could I make some progress, please? Let us be clear that Yarl's Wood also houses foreign national pr...

Keith Vaz | 511 c228WH (Link to this contribution) I do not want to prejudge my hon. Friend's memoirs detailing her period in government before they ev...

Meg Hillier | 511 c226-8WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Weir. I have some questions for the Minister,...

Diane Abbott | 511 c228WH (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend agree that delays, which bear on child detention, are part of a process that fe...

Meg Hillier | 511 c228WH (Link to this contribution) I worked with two Home Secretaries who were robust in defending the Home Office's need for resources...

Keith Vaz | 511 c214WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way to me for a second time. Will he comment on the report in The Gu...

Damian Green | 511 c212-4WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, and I take the opportunity formally...

Keith Vaz | 511 c224WH (Link to this contribution) On that point—I know the hon. Gentleman was not here for some of the earlier speeches—when the Selec...

Julian Huppert | 511 c223-4WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Weir, for calling me to speak for the first time in Westminster Hall. It is a great ho...

Diane Abbott | 511 c222-3WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has great experience as a constituency MP. He probably does more immigration ca...

Keith Vaz | 511 c222WH (Link to this contribution) There is another issue, which I raised in my speech. Why do people have to wait so long for their ca...

Diane Abbott | 511 c221-2WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate. The issue is important not ...

Lord Barwell | 511 c218-21WH (Link to this contribution) Like the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz), I congratulate my hon. Friend the Ministe...

Keith Vaz | 511 c215-8WH (Link to this contribution) I begin by congratulating the hon. Member for Ashford (Damian Green) on his appointment as Minister ...

Damian Green | 511 c214-5WH (Link to this contribution) I would always hesitate to describe a report in The Guardian as being completely accurate. The propo...

Meg Hillier | 511 c228-9WH (Link to this contribution) I believe that my hon. Friend would agree that, as constituency MPs, we have seen reductions in the ...

Subjects

Children Detainees Deportation Immigration controls Immigration Offenders Detention centres UK Border Agency

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