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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"9. What assistance her Department offers to people without five years’ residency applying for indefinite leave to remain, who have been delayed in entering the country on a spouse visa because they are waiting for a determination on a British passport application for a child born outside the UK due …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 05 Jan 2015
Oral Answers to Questions

"Is the Minister aware of the impact on family life of these long delays? Such are the delays that by the time the spouse’s visa is granted, there may be one or two children, and then the mother will often have to make a decision about whether to stay abroad …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 16 Dec 2014
Counter-Terrorism and Security Bill

"Is the right hon. Lady aware of the distrust and suspicion in some communities of what might happen? After the Bradford riots, many parents escorted their children to the police thinking they would get told off, but they ended up with long, extended prison sentences for actions that, at the …..."
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Written Question
Entry Clearances
Wednesday 18th June 2014

Asked by: David Ward (Liberal Democrat - Bradford East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Answer of 17 March 2014, Official Report, column 364W, on entry clearances, what options the policy and operational teams in her Department are considering to best accommodate a clearance programme once the appeal against the judgment of Mr Justice Blake on 5 July 2013 on the Government's visa income threshold is published.

Answered by Karen Bradley

We will study the Court of Appeal judgment in MM and Others closely when this is handed down. We will then decide and announce how we will deal with those applications placed on hold pending the conclusion of the litigation.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 09 Jun 2014
Extremism

"I am very concerned about some of the language that has been used today. We are here to listen to statements which, I remind the House, have been prompted by what has been deemed to be the inappropriate behaviour of governors in some schools in Birmingham, yet the Home Secretary’s …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Immigration Bill

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Immigration Bill

"If the individual who was doing something seriously prejudicial stopped doing it, would their citizenship be reinstated?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Immigration Bill

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 30 Jan 2014
Immigration Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman agree that this is one of the worst examples of the tail wagging dog we have ever seen? We all agree that the tail is unpleasant, but that does not mean we need to do terrible things to the rest of the animal...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2013
Immigration Bill

"The hon. Gentleman started his speech by saying that the number of new arrivals in this country had been vastly underestimated. Presumably he was talking about migrants from eastern Europe. How many of them would have been captured by the Bill?..."
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