Deportation Flight to Jamaica Debate

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Department: Home Office

Deportation Flight to Jamaica

Lindsay Hoyle Excerpts
Monday 10th February 2020

(4 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lindsay Hoyle Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I should tell the House that I am aiming to run the urgent question for around 45 minutes.

Steve Baker Portrait Mr Steve Baker (Wycombe) (Con)
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Surely voters throughout the country for all parties would expect serious and persistent offenders to be deported in accordance with the law. Will my hon. Friend tell the House the minimum threshold at which somebody becomes classified as a serious and persistent offender, so that we can understand the criteria being applied to put people on these flights?