Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lilian Greenwood and Caroline Nokes

Monday 25th February 2019 Commons Chamber

[Caroline Nokes]

I hope that the hon. Gentleman was listening when I made the point that the policy is about protecting the labour market for British workers. Of course I have met asylum seekers in my surgery. Indeed, the ward of Swaythling in Southampton has one of the highest numbers of supported asylum seekers in the entire city, and it falls within my constituency. It is important that we get the balance right and find out how we can best support people into work, but what we do not want to do is create perverse incentives for people to seek to come here by circumventing our important immigration rules, which reserve the right to work for those who have applied through the correct processes.

[Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South) (Lab)]

3. What progress his Department has made on providing compensation to victims of the Windrush scandal.

Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Lilian Greenwood and Caroline Nokes

Wednesday 22nd November 2017 Commons Chamber

[Caroline Nokes]

We have already created 3,000 new roles, 2,000 of which have been filled. As I have said, further roles will be created and, specifically, the Cabinet Office is working most closely with those Departments most affected.

[Lilian Greenwood (Nottingham South) (Lab)]

4. What steps the Government are taking to ensure the accessibility of voter registration.