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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the Home Office holds data on whether small boat migrants have been charged or convicted of any criminal offence.

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 July 2026
Reference
12726
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will provide a schedule of charges and convictions for criminal offences against small boat migrants.

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 July 2026
Reference
12727
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what information her Department holds on whether migrants admitted under the one in one out policy have been (a) charged and (b) convicted of any criminal offence.

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
12724
House
House of Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether any migrants admitted under the one in, one out deal have been charged or convicted of a criminal offence.

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
12725
House
House of Commons

Second reading. Amendment negatived on division (97 to 358). Main question agreed to on division (264 to 90). Programme motion on committal, proceedings in Public Bill Committee, consideration and third reading, and other proceedings. Agreed to on question. King's recommendation signified. Money resolution. Agreed to on question. Ways and means...

Lead member
Shabana Mahmood
Answering member
Chris Philp; Matt Vickers; Alex Norris
Department
Home Office
Type
Debates on bills
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc665-731
House
House of Commons

For the benefit of the House and for clarification, does the Home Secretary intend to implement her proposed ILR changes via amendments to the Bill, or via the immigration rules in the autumn?

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c669
House
House of Commons

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “That” to the end of the Question and add:

“this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Immigration and Asylum Bill, while welcoming some of its provisions, because the Bill does not ensure all foreign criminals and illegal immigrants...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc679-680
House
House of Commons

Our membership of the ECHR has less effect on deportations to Europe, because it is hard to make an ECHR-based claim if the receiving country is in Europe. However, when it comes to deporting foreign criminals to countries outside of Europe, such as those I listed, there are frequent ECHR-based...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc680-1
House
House of Commons

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. For many nationalities that cross the English channel by small boat—Afghan, Iranian, Iraqi, Eritrean and Sudanese, to name just six or seven—the asylum grant rate is well over 90%. In some cases, it is very close to 100%, which means that crossing by small...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c681
House
House of Commons

I agree that the situation in countries such as Afghanistan creates large movements of people—that is correct—and fixing problems at source is clearly the best thing to do. However, I do not think transferring potentially tens of millions of people—he gave the number just then of 60 million or 70...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c681
House
House of Commons

I will give way again, but I want to make a bit of progress first. There will be plenty of other opportunities later.

I will briefly touch on indefinite leave to remain, which is conspicuous by its absence from the Bill. We heard the policy proposal when it was announced last...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc681-2
House
House of Commons

I am sure that the hon. Gentleman knows nothing about Facebook clips, but let me be honest: mistakes were made in the past, and the policies that we have now developed, under new leadership, will fix those issues. In fact, this indefinite leave to remain policy was first proposed by...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc682-3
House
House of Commons

I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. When it comes to foreign criminals, and people who enter this country illegally, having exited a safe place, namely France, I do not think that they should be given all the protections that we have been discussing this afternoon.

Let me turn to...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc683-4
House
House of Commons

Let me finish the point. The truth is that tinkering like this does not work when we have very expansive rights-based conventions. The only way of fixing this properly is to exit the ECHR entirely, repeal the Human Rights Act entirely, exit the Council of Europe convention on action against...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc684-5
House
House of Commons

When the ECHR was first conceived and entered into as a treaty in 1950, it was developed for very good reasons. It was designed to avoid a repetition of the horrors of the second world war, which the hon. Gentleman refers to, but over the years judges in Strasbourg and...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 cc685-6
House
House of Commons

I will take one last intervention before finishing.

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c686
House
House of Commons

First of all, I do not think that Winston Churchill would ever have envisaged that the ECHR, which he helped create, would lead us to being unable to control our borders. Secondly, on the Good Friday agreement, I urge the hon. Lady to read the 175-page report by Lord David...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c686
House
House of Commons

I need to finish.

While I agree with the diagnoses that the Home Secretary eloquently set out in her speech, the measures that she proposes simply will not work. I know that because I have tried to introduce such measures in the past, including by amending section 63, and the courts...

Member
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
13 July 2026
Reference
789 c686
House
House of Commons

Nigerian illegal immigrant Gift Oladele was recently jailed for the brutal rape of a teenage girl. He dragged her into isolated woods, leaving her terrified, and she now has recurrent nightmares. Oladele had committed previous violent sexual offences, and the Home Office rightly tried to deport him, yet an immigration judge allowed him to stay because of Oladele’s human rights, and he went on to violently rape the teenage girl. I believe the rights of women and girls to be protected are more important than the supposed human rights of foreign rapists to stay here. Is it not time to leave the European convention on human rights, so that all criminals such as Oladele can be deported?

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
8 June 2026
Reference
787 c15
House
House of Commons

Deng Majek from Sudan is an illegal small boat migrant who was sentenced last week to 29 years in prison for the brutal murder of Rhiannon Whyte. He stabbed Rhiannon 23 times as she desperately tried to defend herself. Given timing of Majek’s arrival, in the summer of 2024, he would have been eligible for deportation to Rwanda, but Labour cancelled the Rwanda plan and instead accommodated this illegal immigrant in a hotel at taxpayers’ expense. Does the Home Secretary now accept that it was a huge mistake to cancel, just before it started, the Rwanda plan, which would have seen Majek deported, thereby preventing Rhiannon’s murder?

Asked by
Chris Philp (Conservative)
Answering body
Home Office
Topical questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
9 February 2026
Reference
780 c549
House
House of Commons