Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 20 Apr 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"A safe route would kill the evil traffic of people smuggling at a stroke. That is one way of dealing with it. I fail to see how moving people to Rwanda will in any way disrupt these people traffickers’ money-making schemes. They will just use different routes to land people …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Written Question
Tuesday 19th April 2022
Asked by:
Simon Hoare (Conservative - North Dorset)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have been (a) prosecuted and (b) removed for entering the UK illegally via the Ireland and Northern Ireland land border in each of the past five years.
Answered by Tom Pursglove
A)
2017- 3
2018 - 5
2019 - 32
2020 - 2
2021 -15
2022 - 2
B) We do not hold the data to the level of granularity required and therefore it would be cost-prohibitive to supply it. Data on returns activity is published quarterly and the latest figures can be found at How many people are detained or returned? - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Returns information is not published to a level of detail that enables identification of method of entry; and this could only be provided at disproportionate cost.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"It is to be welcomed that there will be no north-south border checks on the island of Ireland. The Minister will know that there is excellent intelligence sharing between the UK, the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the Irish authorities.
I understand what the Government are trying to do …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"The Minister shakes his head and grimaces; I am not entirely sure why, because the idea is eminently workable. Tourism Ireland and Tourism NI are anxious that the legislation on ETAs will be an inhibitor for people who wish to visit the island of Ireland. They do not say, “I’m …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"I entirely support what the Minister is saying. Does he agree that citizenship of this country not only accrues rights but demands responsibilities? When people shy away from those responsibilities and ally themselves with a cultural value set so alien to ours that we cannot even recognise it, that must …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 22 Mar 2022
Nationality and Borders Bill
"To begin my remarks on a personal note, I thank my hon. Friend the Minister for having taken the time to talk to me about a number of amendments and for having approached the Bill with his customary calmness and friendliness and with respect for the House. It is always …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Mar 2022
Ukraine
"The Home Secretary is right when she says that we do not know what is going to happen tomorrow or over the coming days, but one does not have to be an expert fortune teller to know that all of us across the House will be inundated by worried and …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Written Question
Monday 19th April 2021
Asked by:
Simon Hoare (Conservative - North Dorset)
Question
to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people in (a) Northern Ireland and (b) Great Britain have been (i) granted and (ii) refused renunciation of their British citizenship in each of the last 10 years.
Answered by Kevin Foster
The Home Office publishes UK data on renunciations of British Nationality in the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’.
Data on grants and refusals for renunciations of British Nationality are published in table Cit_05 of the Citizenship summary tables, year ending December 2020 (publishing.service.gov.uk) dataset. The latest data relates to year ending December 2020.
The Home Office does not hold data on renunciations of British Nationality by location or country of residence, and so a breakdown of the data is not available for separate nations of the UK.
Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Bill
"A moment ago my right hon. Friend used the word “mistake”, and I think it is right to remind ourselves that the Windrush scandal was not a conspiracy but a cock-up of the most enormous magnitude. Will she confirm that she is confident that her Department and ministerial team are …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Oct 2019
Major Incident in Essex
"The Home Secretary has mentioned Northern Ireland. In that context, will she assure me that the Criminal Assets Bureau will have all the resources it requires to play a full part in the investigation? Does she agree that it is time that unexplained wealth orders were in force in Northern …..."Simon Hoare - View Speech
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