Illegal Migration Bill Debate

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Department: Home Office

Illegal Migration Bill

Lyn Brown Excerpts
Tuesday 7th March 2023

(1 year, 9 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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My right hon. Friend is right to identify the difficulties that we had in effecting flights to Rwanda in the summer of last year. As I mentioned, the Strasbourg court issued a rule 39 order pursuant to an opaque process at the last minute without UK representation or right of challenge. We will introduce some detail in the Bill to address that scenario and inject some conditions upon which we will deliver the measures in rule 39.

Lyn Brown Portrait Ms Lyn Brown (West Ham) (Lab)
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Empty slogans, chaos and broken promises are all we have heard from the Home Secretary today. Return of failed asylum seekers has collapsed by 80% since Labour left office in 2010. Is that not an extraordinary level of incompetence by this Government?

Suella Braverman Portrait Suella Braverman
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What I find to be irresponsible and, frankly, incompetent is the Labour party voting against our measures to remove foreign national offenders, to streamline our asylum system and to take a firm line on illegal migration.