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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

" If she will make a statement on her departmental responsibilities...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"New-born babies put at risk of hypothermia; toddlers stripped of their life jackets and dangled over the side to prevent interceptions; and pregnant women forced to board at gunpoint. Does the Home Secretary agree that it is humanitarian—as well as the right thing to do—to tackle and put a stop …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 08 Jun 2020
Public Order

"Given the risk that the protests may cause a second wave of this virus, and given the disgraceful violence and destruction that we have seen, does the Home Secretary agree that it is time to give the police greater powers to control demonstrations and marches where police commanders believe there …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 03 Jun 2020
Covid-19: UK Border Health Measures

"When reviewing safe journeys in the coming weeks, will my right hon. Friend consider that ferries have a covid-secure option that aeroplanes simply do not have? May I ask her to keep front of mind our beautiful white cliffs country and the Dover-Calais ferry for not just a safe and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 18 May 2020
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"I welcome this Bill, which brings in a points-based immigration system to ensure that immigration is controlled and that we have the skilled workforce that we need not just from the European Union but from around the world. Yet, while it is important to gain immigration status for the people …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Oral Answers to Questions

"Does my right hon. Friend agree that, given the action that the Government are taking to protect vulnerable children through legal routes, more action needs to be taken to slow down and stop activity on the illegal people trafficking routes, particularly those between Calais and Dover?..."
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Written Question
Undocumented Migrants: English Channel
Monday 3rd February 2020

Asked by: Natalie Elphicke (Labour - Dover)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many suspected migrants have been detected entering the UK by small boat across the Dover straits in each year since 2015.

Answered by Brandon Lewis

Small boats crossing the English Channel were an infrequent phenomenon prior to 2018. Incidences involving small boats, as a result, were not recorded with this level of granularity.

However, information was provided to the Home Affairs Select Committee (HASC) on 5th March 2019 which gave the number of migrants detected entering the UK by small boats from January 2018 to February 2019 as 428.

On 22 July 2019 the then Home Secretary Sajid Javid provided an additional figure to Home Affairs Select Committee that up to 21 July 2019, 725 migrants had crossed the English Channel.

We anticipate publication of 2019/2020 data in the coming months.