Written Question
Wednesday 22nd December 2021
Asked by:
Lord Berkeley (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the European Commission’s proposed regulation 2021/0387 on measures against transport operators that facilitate or engage in trafficking in persons or smuggling of migrants, what assessment they have made of the effect the regulations could have on (1) air, (2) sea, (3) road, and (4) rail operators between the UK and the EU, particularly on the island of Ireland.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
There is a high level of cooperation on border security between both the UK and Irish Governments to ensure we are taking all the necessary measures to protect and secure the Common Travel Area, this includes people travelling from Ireland to the UK.
The Home Office, Ireland’s Garda National Immigration Bureau and Border Management Unit, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and other police forces work together to tackle abuse of the CTA by conducting intelligence-led checks and enforcement operations.
We continue to take a whole route approach in pursuing the crime groups who facilitate people smuggling to the UK and who exploit vulnerable migrants, knowingly putting people in life-threatening situations.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
"My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for tabling these amendments, which are very interesting. I will speak to the amendments as opposed to the Private Member’s Bill, but I will have quite a few comments on that too.
I have nothing at all against pedicabs, though I …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
"I will speak briefly to support my noble friend’s amendments and welcome the support that other noble Lords have given to him. I watched from the sidelines an issue that reminded me that the drink-drive legislation comes from the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act. It does not just …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 13 Dec 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
"My Lords, I will speak to the various amendments in this group. I first thank the Minister for arranging two meetings with her colleagues, one in Transport and one in her department, which were very helpful in sharing our concerns—I am speaking from briefings from a large number of groups …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 30th November 2021
Asked by:
Lord Berkeley (Labour - Life peer)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many temporary work visas for EU nationals have been approved this year; and how many have been requested by (1) HGV drivers, (2) fuel tanker drivers, (3) fruit and vegetable pickers, and (4) slaughterhouse workers.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford
- Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
We operate a global immigration system which is open to both EU and non-EU nationals.
Details of the numbers of temporary work visas granted for HGV drivers, pork butchers, and workers in edible horticulture will be published in the usual way via the Home Office’s quarterly immigration statistics.
With regards to fuel tanker drivers, I refer the Noble Lord to my response to the Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale’s question of 26 October (63690).
Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Nov 2021
Migrants
"My Lords, it is difficult to follow the noble Baroness because she made so many good points. I have been following the cross-channel movement of people ever since I worked on building the Channel Tunnel 30 or 40 years ago. At that time, all we were doing was trying to …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 25 Nov 2021
Small Boats Incident in the Channel
"My Lords, this is a very sad day. We have discussed it before but, as the Minister has said, the traffickers will find whatever route they can to get people to this country if it suits them financially. We heard earlier about people being smuggled in trucks but that could …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 17 Nov 2021
Terrorist Incident at Liverpool Women’s Hospital
"My noble friend Lord Rosser asked about this report about the constituent parts of a homemade bomb. From my experience in the construction industry long ago, some of those bits and pieces are easily obtainable in the construction and agricultural industries. Could the Minister make sure that a copy of …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 03 Nov 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
"Can I ask the noble Earl a question? It seems, from listening to his speech, he is saying that all Travellers are criminals. He did not quite say that all criminals are Travellers, but he got some way towards it. What is his solution? Is it to deport them to …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 14 Sep 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill
"My Lords, as the last Back-Bench speaker, I want to introduce my speech by saying to my noble friend Lord Brooke of Alverthorpe that I can beat him when it comes to making noisy protests, because I did one last week and he clearly did not.
I shall concentrate on …..."Lord Berkeley - View Speech
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