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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 21st January 2016

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to answer the letter to her dated 10 December 2015 with regard to Mr S Akhter.

Answered by James Brokenshire

I wrote to the Rt. Hon. Member on 23 December 2015.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Tuesday 10th November 2015

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to answer the letter of the hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton, dated 28 September 2015, with regard to Mr Ammar Baadj.

Answered by James Brokenshire

I apologise for the delay in responding to the letter sent by Rt. Hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton in respect of Mr Ammar Baadj. A response was sent on 10 November providing a full account of the information requested.


Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Wednesday 14th October 2015

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she will answer the letter from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton to the Immigration Minister dated 10 August 2015 with regard to Mr Mohammed Ali.

Answered by James Brokenshire

I apologise for the delay in responding to the letter sent by the Rt Hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton in respect of Mr Mohammed Ali. A response was sent on 21 September 2015 providing a full account of the information requested.


Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill

"The Home Secretary made her notorious speech in Manchester just a few minutes from my constituency. Had she come down the road, she would have seen tens of thousands of people who came under the contemptuous label she uttered this afternoon: “these people”. “These people”, of whom there are tens …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 13 Oct 2015
Immigration Bill

"When I go, as I no doubt shortly shall, for my flu jab, the person who gives it to me would not be regarded by many people who support this Bill as British, but services are being provided for people in this country. The work situation is going to be …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Refugee Crisis in Europe

"This is a grim world. Dreadful events are taking place in many countries. Innocent human beings are dying and armies and guerrillas are fighting each other throughout the world, particularly in south Asia and the middle east. Only today, we read of a 27-year-old Palestinian woman murdered by Israeli extremists, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Refugee Crisis in Europe

"That would be all very well if that was what other countries were doing too, but over the last few days alone the Germans have taken in 17,000 refugees. It may well be that Angela Merkel, creditably, is motivated by conscience and what the Germans did to the Jews. That …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Refugee Crisis in Europe

"I do not find that reply convincing. I do not think that this Government have got the motivation that other countries in western and central Europe have.

What is more, the people whom the Government are ready to take in are not enduring the present hell in Europe and on …..."

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 08 Sep 2015
Refugee Crisis in Europe

"I am afraid that the phrase “morally right” is somewhat ambiguous under this Government. My hon. Friend is perfectly right: we do not know what they will do, and one of the reasons we do not know is that they do not know what they will do themselves.

It is …..."

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Written Question
Members: Correspondence
Thursday 26th March 2015

Asked by: Gerald Kaufman (Labour - Manchester, Gorton)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when she intends to reply to the letter to her dated 19 February 2015 from the right hon. Member for Manchester Gorton with regards to Mr J Holloway.

Answered by James Brokenshire

I will reply to the Right hon. Member by 27 March 2015.