Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Andy Slaughter Excerpts
Monday 20th June 2022

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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It is fair to say that the plan we are advancing is the only credible plan to address the issue. It is comprehensive and will end the dangerous channel crossings, preserve life, get illegal migration back under control and, of course, bring sustainability to the related finances.

Andy Slaughter Portrait Andy Slaughter (Hammersmith) (Lab)
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My constituent faces losing her job with the NHS and is unable to visit a seriously ill close relative abroad because the Home Office has failed to deal with her visa, which was requested last year. I have raised this four times with the Home Office urgent inquiry line and have received no response for two months. Will the Minister look at this particular case, which I wrote to the Home Secretary about last week, and, more generally, at the service, or lack of service, that the urgent inquiry line is providing to MPs?

Kevin Foster Portrait Kevin Foster
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I am very happy to look into the individual case.