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Written Question
Agriculture: Migrant Workers
Wednesday 6th February 2019

Asked by: Angus Brendan MacNeil (Independent - Na h-Eileanan an Iar)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he is taking to ensure access by non-UK non-seasonal workers to the agri-food sector after UK leaves the EU.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

I refer the Honourable Member to the response that I gave to a question from the Honourable Member for Darlington on 22 October (180695).

Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"Come and join us...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"The hon. Lady talks about the UK’s one-size-fits-nobody migration policy. Like other countries such as Canada and Switzerland, does she support decentralising or devolving the issue, or is she still of the mindset that we must hold things centrally in London, and that London knows best?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"I want to give the right hon. Lady some breaking news: apparently Labour has U-turned on its abstention and is now going to oppose the Bill. Is that right?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"My goodness, we have breaking news in the Chamber: “Wait and see.”..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"I was only going to make a couple of points, but as I have listened to the debate, the number of points has grown. I shall kick off by correcting, or perhaps taking on—I do this on migration quite a lot—the hon. Member for Saffron Walden (Mrs Badenoch). I was …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"Absolutely. When people mix together, rub shoulders and talk to each other, they learn quite a lot from each other. They stop fearing each other and stop believing the demagogues who are telling them all sorts of nonsense about the other.

We will not just see more work in our …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"My hon. Friend’s point stands for itself and is well made. As we are dealing with further voodoo from the Home Office, let me say that the problems that we have at present are based on voodoo thinking. Part of it was “Take back control”, but when we are dealing …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"That is correct, and the point has been well made by many MPs. If it was not for the voodoo thinking of the Home Office, and if normal people were allowed to decide this, that would be happening, to everyone’s benefit.

I introduced a private Member’s Bill on refugees, and …..."
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