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UK Border Agency

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

540 c621-33 

Session

2010-12

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c633 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, given his constituency, takes a particular interest in border matters. He is assiduo...

David Nuttall | 540 c633 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Home Secretary's announcement of the separation of the UK Border Force as a separate e...

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Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c633 (Link to this contribution) We will, of course, be holding an open competition for people to apply for that post. I hesitate to ...

Lord Redwood | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) As someone who supports what the Home Secretary is trying to do to get better control over our borde...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Home Secretary's mock outrage would have rather greater credibility if she had shown any ...

Yvette Cooper | 540 c623-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Home Secretary for early sight of her statement, in which she makes important points abo...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c621-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on border security. In November last y...

Tony Baldry | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) It is clear from the Vine report that some immigration checks have been suspended since at least 200...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) I did not say in November that the overall number of refusals was higher. The report does indeed say...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) Sadly, the chief inspector describes in the report poor communication and poor managerial oversight ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to remind the hon. Gentleman—I am sure that he is already aware of this—that the current ...

Lord Evans of Rainow | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) Apart from the political posturing and point-scoring attempted by the shadow Home Secretary last Nov...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the last time there was an immigration debate in the House, not a single speech wa...

Meg Hillier | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) One of the Government's first acts was to abolish plans to put fingerprints in British passports. We...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely, and I have already answered the points about the Immigration Minister's comments. The ho...

Philip Hollobone | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) The establishment of a new operational command for the UK Border Force and the appointment of its in...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that the UK Border Force has already undertaken a great deal of work wit...

Charlie Elphicke | 540 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) A couple of months ago, I toured the border controls at Dover. I would like to make the Home Secreta...

Lord McCabe | 540 c632 (Link to this contribution) Given the Home Secretary's decision to split the Border Force from the UKBA, can we expect a corresp...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, that is why we are responding fully to the recommendations of the Vine report. Furthermore, ...

Paul Goggins | 540 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) When the Home Secretary made her statement to the House on 7 November, there was some initial confus...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm to the right hon. Gentleman that Manchester airport was indeed part of the pilot schem...

Robert Halfon | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that the suspension of border checks had nothing to do with budget...

Nick Raynsford | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) On occasions such as this, when Opposition Back Benchers have not seen the report that is the subjec...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) In a number of aspects, the report does indeed refer to the need for greater clarity in communicatio...

James Clappison | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. As part of the culture change to which she refers, will ...

Speaker | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is pressure on time. I am keen to accommodate all colleagues, but to do so I require br...

Alun Michael | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary understand one of the points made by the Home Affairs Committee, which is th...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the comments that the right hon. Gentleman makes about the relationship between M...

Fiona Mactaggart | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) Does the Vine report include any criticism of, or comment on, the behaviour of Ministers?

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) The Vine report goes through the facts of what happened over a period in relation to the potential s...

Chris Heaton-Harris | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary agree that because the previous Labour Government were so uninterested in pr...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) The precise reason for separating the UK Border Force from UKBA is to give the UK Border Force a muc...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to raise the impact on Scotland. We will discuss the impact of the repor...

Speaker | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appeal to the hon. Member for Blyth Valley (Mr Campbell) to calm himself. Perhaps he should...

Michael Ellis | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) Having heard the bluster from the shadow Home Secretary, will the Home Secretary confirm to the Hous...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) The report makes it clear that the suspension of checks outside the limited pilot that had been appr...

Stewart Hosie | 540 c629 (Link to this contribution) When the scandal broke last year, it was reported that checks were suspended at Edinburgh, Glasgow, ...

Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) The Home Affairs Committee report found that one primary reason the problem continued for so long un...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the issues with how the UKBA was originally set up—it was one those so-called arm's l...

Julie Hilling | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) Does the Home Secretary agree with the report that it is imperative that the language used by minist...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Lady that we have looked in detail at every criticism made in the report, and that...

Tom Brake | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) Will the Home Secretary set out what regular performance assessment of UKBA there will be to ensure ...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) We will issue the UK Border Force with a new operating mandate that makes absolutely clear the circu...

Keith Vaz | 540 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that the Home Secretary is to implement all the recommendations by John Vine. Thi...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c628 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the serious and constructive way in which he has engaged in his...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. He is absolutely right that the public want to know that we...

Kris Hopkins | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) The failure of the previous Government to manage our borders and even know how many immigrants had c...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c631 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and I know that this is a campaign that he pursues at every opportun...

Jack Straw | 540 c627 (Link to this contribution) May I take it from what the Home Secretary has said that she agrees with my right hon. Friend the sh...

Baroness May of Maidenhead | 540 c630 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely correct. The suspension of checks did start under the previous Governme...

Subjects

Airports Immigration controls Undocumented migrants Passengers Standards Security Visas UK Border Agency UK Border Force

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