Channel Crossings in Small Boats Debate

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Channel Crossings in Small Boats

Kevin Brennan Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd September 2020

(3 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Chris Philp Portrait Chris Philp
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We hear that message loud and clear. We understand the anger at those illegal, dangerous and unnecessary crossings, and we will do whatever it takes to stop them, including working with the source countries and the upstream countries in the way my hon. Friend has just described.

Kevin Brennan Portrait Kevin Brennan (Cardiff West) (Lab)
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To understand the scale, am I right in saying that the number of asylum applications in the UK in the most recent year for which figures are available was 35,566; the number of asylum applications on the most recent figures available in France was 114,500; and that for the same period in Germany, the figure was 161,900?