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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 135 That is exactly what I am driving at. Could you give us your view on it?

David Smith: We have no information, clearly, as to how many unlawful immigrants there are within the private rented sector. The reality, as I think has been established before, is that landlords …..."

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 136 Just sticking with the two landlords, if I may, before coming to Mr Leenders on the same question, your organisations are membership organisations, clearly, and you know how many members you have. Do you have any sense of how many members you do not have? In other words, …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (Second sitting)

"Q 137 Mr Leenders, any reflections?

Eric Leenders: I think we can identify 123 million instant access accounts. If we were to apply the experience from the Immigration Act of roughly 1% of searches being referred to the Home Office, that would potentially lead to a working assumption of about …..."

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (First sitting)

"Q 71 I want to take Ms Robinson back to her point about defences under the Modern Slavery Act 2015, in which I take a great interest—I sat on the Public Bill Committee. I have that Act and the Criminal Damage Act 1971 in front of me because she made …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (First sitting)

"Q 72 The Home Secretary said that those defences will continue to apply. I thought I heard you say earlier that the defences will not apply; the Home Secretary says that they will.

Caroline Robinson: In relation to the Immigration Bill?..."

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 20 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill (First sitting)

"Yes.

Caroline Robinson: Sorry, I was thinking about Second Reading of the Modern Slavery Act. Yes, she did say that, which is why I said it will be very interesting for organisations such as mine, and many others, as part of the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group to know for sure what …..."

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Written Question
Grzegorz Kowalski
Tuesday 21st July 2015

Asked by: Chloe Smith (Conservative - Norwich North)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to speed up the repatriation of Grzegorz Kowalski; and when Mr Kowalski will be repatriated.

Answered by James Brokenshire

The Home Office does not comment on individual cases.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Modern Slavery Bill

"On the subject of waiting for another day, is there not a problem with Lords amendment 72? If a victim of slavery left their current employer and that employer was able to go on to abuse more victims, both that day and another day, the Lords amendment would do little …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Modern Slavery Bill

"The right hon. Gentleman’s words belie him. Just a few sentences ago he said he wanted to unpick that visa knot for others. With the greatest respect, it is not those others that we are discussing today; it is the victims of slavery, as my hon. Friend the Minister has …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 17 Mar 2015
Modern Slavery Bill

"Does the Minister agree that we seem to have heard the Labour Front-Bench team and the hon. Member for Linlithgow and East Falkirk (Michael Connarty) being what some might call soft on immigration, in the sense of opening up this debate to all workers? The hon. Gentleman said explicitly that …..."
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