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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 13 Jun 2022
Asylum Seekers: Removal to Rwanda

"Many of those who arrive on our shores from Iran do so because they have converted to Christianity and, of course, in Iran, apostasy is an offence punishable by death or by life imprisonment. So they have escaped from a predominantly Catholic country to the UK, where the established Church …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 24 May 2022
Asylum Reception Centre: Linton-on-Ouse

"Does my hon. Friend agree that if a developer were to try to build a development of such a size on the edge of such a village, they would be laughed out of court?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 07 Mar 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill

"I was contacted on Saturday by a former constituent who had escaped from Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife. He contacted me again last night to say that I did not need to help him—he had been to our embassy in Berlin and expected that everything would be sorted out today, …..."
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Written Question
Seasonal Workers: Horticulture
Tuesday 14th December 2021

Asked by: Robert Goodwill (Conservative - Scarborough and Whitby)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of including ornamental horticulture in the seasonal workers visa scheme.

Answered by Kevin Foster

We are considering the future of the Seasonal Worker route and will confirm further details imminently.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Nationality and Borders Bill (Sixteenth sitting)

"I thank the Minister, because everyone else has been thanked. He had not been long in his position when the Committee started, and he has shown tremendous skill and adeptness. I am pleased indeed that he recovered from the dodgy prawn he had the other week, which caused the Whip …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 04 Nov 2021
Nationality and Borders Bill (Sixteenth sitting)

"Does the Minister agree that in many cases under the Dublin regulation, children were placed with quite distant relatives here in the UK who they had never met, when their families and parents were in the country from whence they had fled because it was they who had paid the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Child Sexual Exploitation: Bradford

"This issue was first brought to light in Rotherham. At that time, many organisations such as the police and the council felt that they were maybe being racist by tackling it because it involved one particular community. Is that still a problem, or has that been cleared up?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Child Sexual Exploitation: Bradford

"Is it not the case that many of those girls will either be in the care of the local authorities, as looked-after children, or come from families that social workers are closely engaging with?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Child Sexual Exploitation: Bradford

"Does the Minister recognise that, where girls are over the age of 16 and can give consent, sadly, many of them are being gaslighted and forced into this activity? It is much more difficult for the police to get a prosecution and for the Crown Prosecution Service to take action …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 26 Oct 2021
Nationality and Borders Bill (Ninth sitting)

"Does the hon. Gentleman accept that any country that meets the Copenhagen criteria, by virtue of being either a member of the European Union or an accession country, would be, by definition, a safe country?..."
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