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

"If the hon. Gentleman looks at the part of the UK that became independent 96 years ago, he will see it now enjoys five to six times greater growth. When a country controls all the levers of the economy, it finds that things improve. If a country is scared of …..."
Angus Brendan MacNeil - View Speech

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

"Will the hon. Gentleman give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"Of course if the Brazilian gentleman had become a full Irish citizen, he would have been able to move through the common travel area without hindrance. There is a question here, and it is one the Scots Tories do not like. They do not want Scotland to be able to …..."
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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

"May I caution the Home Secretary about setting too much store by the Migration Advisory Committee? For years, as he will know, I have been talking to various Immigration Ministers—they come and they go—about trying to get fishermen from other parts of the world to work on boats on the …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"Does my hon. Friend agree that the fundamental point is that those under a certain age who have been designated as refugees should have the same rights as people over that age, and it is very nasty not to give those rights to children in particular?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 28 Jan 2019
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

"When Conservatives are on the stump or going around the country, they always talk about getting rid of red tape and taking the Government out of the centre of people’s lives. Right now, through this sort of legislation, they are putting massive amounts of red tape in people’s lives and …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Dec 2018
European Union (Withdrawal) Act

"Can I impress on the Home Secretary again the acute problems that there have been in fishing on the west coast of Scotland and, indeed, in Northern Ireland? I do not know how many numerous meetings I have had with various Government Ministers—they come and they go all the time—but …..."
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Written Question
Entry Clearances: Migrant Workers
Monday 12th November 2018

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 assessment he has made of the potential merits of the re-introduction of a Tier 3 visa category to support domestic food and meat production after the UK leaves the EU.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

The Government recognises the valuable contribution that overseas workers make to the UK economy and to our society. We are currently developing options for the future system which will be designed to work in the national interest.

On the 18 September, the Migration Advisory Committee published their final report on the current patterns of EEA migration into the UK. We are carefully considering their fourteen recommendations. We plan to publish a White Paper setting out more detail on the future arrangements later in the Autumn.

Written Question
Refugees: Families
Monday 24th September 2018

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, how many (a) decisions on, and (b) grants of, applications for refugee family reunion were made at (i) Istanbul Clearance, (ii) Amman Clearance, (iii) Pretoria Clearance and (iv) Sheffield Decision Making Centre in 2017.

Answered by Caroline Nokes

Statistics on refugee family reunion can be found in Home Office Asylum tables volume 5, table as_21_q –

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/734178/asylum5-jun-2018-tables.ods

Information can also be found in the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration report: A re-inspection of the family reunion process, focusing on applications received at the Amman Entry Clearance Decision Making Centre:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/737724/Final_Artwork_Reinspection_Family_Reunion_Amman.pdf

UK Visas and Immigration are currently in the process of consolidating Family Reunion applications so that decision making is carried out by one specialist team based in the UK.