Oral Answers to Questions

Drew Hendry Excerpts
Wednesday 20th February 2019

(5 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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What the country wants is to have this sorted. They want to leave the EU with a deal, and the hon. Lady and her colleagues should support the Prime Minister in her endeavour.

Drew Hendry Portrait Drew Hendry (Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) (SNP)
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2. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of provisions in the immigration Bill on Scotland.

Stuart C McDonald Portrait Stuart C. McDonald (Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) (SNP)
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5. What assessment he has made of the potential effect of provisions in the immigration Bill on Scotland.

David Mundell Portrait The Secretary of State for Scotland (David Mundell)
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The Immigration and Social Security Co-Ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill will help us deliver the new single, skills-based immigration system we want, one that maximises the benefits of immigration and demonstrates that Scotland and the UK are open for business.

Drew Hendry Portrait Drew Hendry
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I have heard the Secretary of State’s answer, but what faith can the people of Scotland have in the new immigration Bill or his Government when even after the issue was raised with the Prime Minister, with a promised intervention from the Home Secretary, the Home Secretary’s office told me yesterday that it has lost the file on Denis Omondi, the serving British soldier in 3 Scots whose young daughter has been denied a visa? Will the Scottish Secretary now get personally involved in this travesty?

David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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I am disappointed to hear what the hon. Gentleman has said, and yes of course I will.