Illegal Migration Bill: Economic Impact Assessment Debate
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Neil Coyle
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Illegal Migration Bill: Economic Impact Assessment
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Robert Jenrick
I do not support allowing asylum seekers to work in this country. The approach that we are taking under the Illegal Migration Bill means that individuals who come here will be processed swiftly—in days and weeks, not months and years—and then either returned home or sent to a safe third country such as Rwanda, so that issue will not be relevant. Let me also point out that the hon. Gentleman recently opposed the proposal for a number of asylum seekers to stay in his constituency, despite having said that it was a place of sanctuary.
Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab)
Excessive cost for nil result—does not that assessment sum up not just the Minister’s flawed Home Office plans, but the incompetence at the heart of the whole sinking Government?
Robert Jenrick
No. As I have said on many occasions, the approach we are taking is to introduce one of the most creative and robust systems of any country in the western world.