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UK Border Agency

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

732 c35-44 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2011-1782
Monday, 7 November 2011
Deposited papers
House of Lords
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Pannick | 732 c40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister accept that border controls were relaxed without ministerial authority b...

Lord Henley | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have not sacrificed the security of the realm to cuts either in this area or in other a...

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Lord Henley | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is early days for saying much about the pilot other than that it looks as though it ach...

Lord Skidelsky | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure the Minister is aware of Adam Smith’s famous remark that defence is more importa...

Lord Stirrup | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, few would argue with the principle of risk assessment and the targeting of resources more ...

Lord Henley | 732 c35-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my ri...

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath | 732 c37-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made by the Home Secretary in the other p...

Lord Henley | 732 c44 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, obviously, lessons are always to be learnt from all around the world. No doubt, if the nob...

Lord Marlesford | 732 c44 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will my noble friend comment on my suggestion that the Vine terms of reference should incl...

Lord Mackenzie of Framwellgate | 732 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, are there lessons to be learnt from the Israelis in this? While people are waiting to be a...

Lord Mawhinney | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can my noble friend assure the House that when the inquiries are over, the reports have be...

Lord Harris of Haringey | 732 c42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is it not the case that Home Office Ministers frequently visit our border posts? In the ci...

Lord Marlesford | 732 c42 (Link to this contribution) Does my noble friend agree that there have been repeated occasions when the incompetence of the Home...

Lord Henley | 732 c42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the delays, the border agency is largely meeting the targets imposed on it. The noble L...

Lord Campbell-Savours | 732 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while not wishing in any way to endorse the cuts in UK Border Force staff which have led t...

Lord Henley | 732 c41 (Link to this contribution) I take note of what my noble friend has to say. We inherited these machines and will try to make sur...

Lord Henley | 732 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord would not want me to speculate on why certain individuals are alleged to ha...

Lord Henley | 732 c40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I again make it clear that these are only allegations at this stage. The individuals have ...

Lord Henley | 732 c44 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that Mr Vine will have noted what my noble friend had to say. I am not going to ...

Lord Henley | 732 c44 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that the noble Lord is trying to take the inquiry on to other, equally important m...

Lord Dholakia | 732 c44 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the allegations made by the Home Affairs Select Committee was that at least 125,000...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is it appropriate for my noble friend to tell your Lordships’ House by whom the biometric ...

Lord Henley | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, not without notice, but no doubt I will write to my noble friend.

Lord Henley | 732 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, speaking for myself, I have to say that I have not visited any of the pilots, but then I h...

Lord Henley | 732 c43 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend is quite right to say that those are very important. It is obviously important that ...

Lord Henley | 732 c42 (Link to this contribution) On my noble friend’s first point, I am aware that there has been a certain amount of criticism over ...

Lord Henley | 732 c41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course there has always been discussion about how many people are needed to maintain th...

Lord Hughes of Woodside | 732 c41 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure whether I heard the Minister correctly. Did he say that there was a cut of 5,000 in th...

Lord Lawson of Blaby | 732 c41 (Link to this contribution) Is my noble friend aware that part of the problem of delays, which has been spoken about, is that th...

Baroness Hamwee | 732 c40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps the Minister will share with the House the extent of the pilot. Is there a link be...

Earl Attlee | 732 c40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I remind the House of the benefits of short questions to the Minister in order that as man...

Lord Henley | 732 c39-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at least I can welcome the fact that the noble Lord welcomed the fact that we are making a...

Subjects

Disciplinary proceedings Children Biometrics Borders Fingerprints Immigration controls Pilot schemes Passports Security Visas European economic area UK Border Agency Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Border Agency Calais

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