Border Management (Calais) Debate

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Department: Home Office

Border Management (Calais)

Andrew Bridgen Excerpts
Wednesday 24th June 2015

(9 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I am aware that a number of countries in eastern Europe are taking a number of measures. Some of them are putting in place greater physical security on their borders, while others are looking at the operation of what is known as the Dublin regulations, which require the claiming of asylum in the first country that an individual enters. We will be discussing these issues with our European colleagues.

Andrew Bridgen Portrait Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)
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My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary is right that the scenes we are witnessing in Calais are the natural result of the failure of the borderless Schengen area. Is she pleased, as I am, that we are not in it? Will she confirm that we will never join it?

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I am very happy to answer, briefly, that I am pleased we are not in the Schengen area. That is absolutely the right decision. We need to be able to maintain control of our borders and we will not be joining Schengen.