Controlling Migration Debate

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Department: Home Office

Controlling Migration

Mike Gapes Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd November 2010

(13 years, 12 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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My hon. Friend raises an interesting point that will be in many people’s minds, given the situation in Ireland at the moment. Of course, movement is available within the European Union area, and movement from Ireland into the UK has been long standing.

Mike Gapes Portrait Mike Gapes (Ilford South) (Lab/Co-op)
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What procedures and resources will be available for enforcing these proposals, given that one of the problems, under successive Governments, has been people overstaying when their visa has expired?