Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 23 May 2022
Public Order Bill
"I do; that was why I said that the Bill is at its best when it focuses on those things. I am just saying to the Minister that we should have more precise definitions in the Bill.
Clause 14(4) lists the prohibitions that may be imposed on someone subject to …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 26th April 2022
Asked by:
Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the English language requirement for applications for student visas from Kenya; and whether she has plans to review that requirement for those applicants.
Answered by Kevin Foster
Kenya is not included on the Majority English Speaking Country (MESC) for immigration purposes, so applicants from Kenya must meet the English language requirement in another way.
Student applicants are currently required to show a B1 or B2 competency level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, depending on their course of study. There are several ways they can prove this:
- having shown they meet the requirement in a previous immigration application; or
- passing a Secure English Language Test at an approved test centre; or
- holding a degree-level qualification which was taught in English; or
- having their chosen university or other Higher Educational Institution self-certify their level of English ability; or
- having a GCSE, A-level, Scottish National Qualification at level 4 or 5 or, Scottish Higher or Advanced Higher, in English following education at a UK school begun when they were under-18.
Our assessment is these options provide an appropriate means for applicants for student visas from Kenya to meet the English language requirement.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"The Minister said that in those cases, there would be an assessment of the risk to public order. Has he made an assessment of what proportion of the cases, say in 2020, would have had these individual assessments based on the criteria presented in the Bill? He may not have …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"To maintain the hon. Lady’s record of Conservative interventions that are somewhat supportive, is not what she has just said about that 48% the answer to the question I posed to my hon. Friend the Minister? Under the Bill as presented, the Home Office will be required to intervene in …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"I want the UK to be known as a place of refuge and justice as well as a place of opportunity and freedom. When examining immigration Bills over the years, I have always looked to see where there could be an issue of moral hazard in what is being proposed …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Refugees from Ukraine
"I was shocked to hear the shadow Home Secretary imply that Labour would throw away or downplay essential security checks in its mad dash to be seen to be doing something. I know that our Home Secretary will stand firm on our borders. Will she also use this opportunity to …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Refugees from Ukraine
"I am grateful, Mr Speaker, and if I got that wrong, I apologise to the shadow Home Secretary. My point was about the balance that the Home Secretary has to take. Will she use this opportunity to thank the many thousands of British families who have stepped forward to say …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 10 Mar 2022
Refugees from Ukraine
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Written Question
Tuesday 1st March 2022
Asked by:
Richard Fuller (Conservative - North Bedfordshire)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when her Department plans to respond to the correspondence of 23 November 2021 from the hon. Member for North East Bedfordshire regarding the warrant for the Fire Service Long Service and Good Conduct Bars for 30 and 40 years service; and what her Department's timetable is for taking a decision on those service awards.
Answered by Damian Hinds
I am pleased to report that the Fire Brigade Long Service Good Conduct Medal Royal Warrant, has now been amended to include the 30 and 40 years’ service clasps and has received approval by the committee on the grant of honours, decorations and medals (known as the HD Committee).
The Royal Warrant will come into effect as soon as it is approved by HM The Queen in coming weeks.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 08 Dec 2021
Nationality and Borders Bill
"I rise to speak to new clause 39, standing in my name and the names of the Chairs of the Procedure Committee, the International Development Committee and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. For a variety of reasons, none of those colleagues can be with us today, and I …..."Richard Fuller - View Speech
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