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Immigration

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

537 c581-628 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Damian Green | 537 c581 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is aware, because he has indeed had a meeting with me, that we must have rules in...

Barry Gardiner | 537 c581 (Link to this contribution) The Minister talks of attracting the brightest and the best to our country. I had a meeting with him...

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Damian Green | 537 c581 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of immigration." It is very important that...

Damian Green | 537 c582-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is right, and I will address that point later. Some of the measures that we...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 537 c581 (Link to this contribution) The Minister said that one of the advantages of the system has been attracting the brightest and the...

Damian Green | 537 c583 (Link to this contribution) I think that that comes under the heading of a nice try. The hon. Gentleman will have to wait until ...

Chris Bryant | 537 c583 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman might be going to say a little more about what the Migration Advis...

Damian Green | 537 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman knows, there are no border controls between southern Ireland and Northern Irel...

Russell Brown | 537 c585 (Link to this contribution) The Minister knows, from discussions that he and I have had, about the problem with southern Ireland...

Damian Green | 537 c584 (Link to this contribution) The student changes have largely been announced. Those that did not come into force last April or Oc...

Lord Field of Birkenhead | 537 c584 (Link to this contribution) Is not the reason the net migration figures are disappointing that there has been a collapse of migr...

Damian Green | 537 c584-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I will come on to the subject of removals shortly, if he can hold on. The o...

Tony Baldry | 537 c584 (Link to this contribution) All Government Members would acknowledge the chaotic situation that my hon. Friend inherited. One di...

Barry Gardiner | 537 c587 (Link to this contribution) I welcome much of what the Minister has said, but there appears to be a glitch in the legacy casewor...

Damian Green | 537 c586-7 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear from my hon. Friend, who has a long history of campaigning on the issue on beha...

Damian Green | 537 c587 (Link to this contribution) I do not think I understand what the hon. Gentleman means about them being fast-tracked to deportati...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c586 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend confirm whether there are any plans to extend nationally the pilot scheme t...

Bob Stewart | 537 c591-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman referred to being a burden on the state, which also makes me think of problems co...

Barry Gardiner | 537 c587 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I did not explain the matter as clearly as I should have done. What is happening is that whe...

Damian Green | 537 c587 (Link to this contribution) I may have misunderstood the hon. Gentleman, so I give way to him again.

Chris Bryant | 537 c588-91 (Link to this contribution) I will start with the issues on which I completely and utterly agree with the Minister. First, I agr...

Damian Green | 537 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman knows of individual cases in which that is happening, I know he will be assidu...

Tristram Hunt | 537 c593 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend aware of particular concerns in the Indian subcontinent about rules on studying in...

Chris Bryant | 537 c592-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes several fair points. She is right about not wanting to steal lots of doctors fro...

Eilidh Whiteford | 537 c592 (Link to this contribution) One of the challenges for the NHS is that many of the overseas students who come to study health sci...

Chris Bryant | 537 c592 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the faintest idea. If the hon. Gentleman wishes to write to me, I will try to give him...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c592 (Link to this contribution) We all believe in evidence-based policy making, rather than the anecdotal points that the hon. Gentl...

Chris Bryant | 537 c592 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, and in a sense that is the conundrum that the Government have to try to resolve. At some poi...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 537 c596-7 (Link to this contribution) Uncharacteristically, I am losing my voice. If it finally runs out, I shall just sit down. I thank ...

Chris Bryant | 537 c596 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has not said whether he thinks the figures are too high. As the Prime Minister is all t...

Damian Green | 537 c595 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way after his long list of questions. I asked him one...

Chris Bryant | 537 c593-5 (Link to this contribution) Of course there are concerns, but ensuring that students go home once they have completed their cour...

David Ward | 537 c597 (Link to this contribution) I think that we all accept what the right hon. Gentleman has said about immigration from outside the...

Julian Brazier | 537 c600 (Link to this contribution) It is a huge pleasure and honour to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Nicholas ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 537 c597-600 (Link to this contribution) That is probably self-evidently true but it does not alter the fact that the figures remain correct,...

Julian Brazier | 537 c601-3 (Link to this contribution) One can go back quite a long way, into religious persecution and earlier history, but we were very k...

Chris Bryant | 537 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's last comment—that the reason many British people have gone around the world and...

Julian Brazier | 537 c603 (Link to this contribution) I have just quoted the words of a former Labour Education Minister, and I will write to the hon. Gen...

David Ward | 537 c603 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made two references to education and attainment in schools, about which I kno...

Julian Brazier | 537 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. I shall not repeat the powerful point my right hon. Friend the...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c603 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Member for Bradford East (Mr Ward) is incorrect. There is evidence to sugg...

Mark Simmonds | 537 c604 (Link to this contribution) I recognise—as did the Minister—the significant historical benefits that immigration has brought to ...

Chris Bryant | 537 c608 (Link to this contribution) We went for quality.

Tom Brake | 537 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Boston and Skegness (Mark Simmonds). He was perfectly...

Mark Simmonds | 537 c604-7 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concern felt by the hon. Lady and the Scottish universities. I know that there is a...

Eilidh Whiteford | 537 c604 (Link to this contribution) The Scottish universities, which are mostly research-led ancient institutions, are competing with Ca...

Tom Brake | 537 c608-9 (Link to this contribution) I am not going to prolong the debate that I am having with the hon. Gentleman from his sedentary pos...

Chris Bryant | 537 c608 (Link to this contribution) You only have two.

Tom Brake | 537 c608 (Link to this contribution) The Front-Bench spokesman makes a point about quality, but quality can also come from Back Benchers ...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c610 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington (Tom Brake). Much of ...

Tom Brake | 537 c609-10 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his pertinent intervention. The Government need to explain what safeg...

Lord Barwell | 537 c615 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Government making time for a debate on this subject. It is a sensitive issue but, as t...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c613 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that helpful intervention. I know the Minister will tell us that the Sch...

Christopher Pincher | 537 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) I must admit that I was planning not to take part in this debate because very little has been said w...

Tom Brake | 537 c615 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the expansion in apprenticeships is a concrete example of the Governm...

Christopher Pincher | 537 c615 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a pertinent point. He pre-empts what I am going to say next. We have tal...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c611 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that, but there is a more insidious element to Labour's prop...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 537 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) I will make some further progress. The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee found in its repor...

Mark Simmonds | 537 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is, as always, making a well informed and articulate contribution. Is he aware of the...

Lord Barwell | 537 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) I would give way to the hon. Gentleman, but a number of other Members wish to speak, so I am going t...

James Brokenshire | 537 c625-8 (Link to this contribution) We have had an informative and measured debate, and it is important to note that the Government foun...

Andrew Turner | 537 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Minister and my hon. Friends the Members for Pet...

Diana Johnson | 537 c622-5 (Link to this contribution) We have had an interesting debate this evening, with the Minister and the shadow Minister using thei...

Jackie Doyle-Price | 537 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to address this very mature debate on what can be an emotive subject. Because of it...

James Morris | 537 c619-21 (Link to this contribution) It is fair to say that immigration is a source of frustration for many of my constituents. Despite a...

Gavin Shuker | 537 c617 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is extremely progressive and moderate on such issues, but did the Conservative pa...

Chris Bryant | 537 c609 (Link to this contribution) There are two suggestions on the table: that the visa should be completely abolished, and that an em...

Chris Bryant | 537 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) Having heard many confessions in my time, I am not going to give a lengthy mea culpa. We have alread...

Lord Barwell | 537 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) I believe that my hon. Friend the Immigration Minister, who is not in the Chamber, absolutely passes...

Subjects

Asylum Borders Families Immigration controls Immigration Undocumented migrants Human trafficking Entry clearances English language Forced marriage Sham marriage Migration Visas Students Work permits

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