Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Pete Wishart Excerpts
Monday 23rd March 2026

(1 day, 12 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Alex Norris Portrait Alex Norris
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If the right hon. Gentleman checks the record, he will see that I answer an awful lot of questions from colleagues on a daily basis. I seek to give the fullest available information, so that we can have the best and most based in fact debate on what is a very contentious issue. I will have to look more closely at the element he raises, but he will know from his time in government that cost and person time are factors in what we can and cannot pull together to release.

Pete Wishart Portrait Pete Wishart (Perth and Kinross-shire) (SNP)
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In the past few weeks, the Home Secretary has announced a whole swathe of new restrictive asylum and immigration policies which, as we know from over the weekend, are at best contentious. When will we have a vote on them?