Controlling Migration Debate

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Department: Home Office

Controlling Migration

Peter Bone Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd November 2010

(14 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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I have to say that several of the groups that the right hon. Gentleman has mentioned came here as refugees, and we are not talking about the asylum system today. We do need to examine the operation of our asylum system to ensure that it operates swiftly in the interests not only of the UK, but of those who are seeking asylum. However, that is not what we are debating today.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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Hon. Members will be delighted that the Home Secretary has announced this policy to the House first, and that the BBC was so wonderfully misinformed this morning. In Wellingborough, immigration is the No. 1 issue, but my constituents are more concerned about people coming from the European Union. I wonder how that question is going to be addressed.

Baroness May of Maidenhead Portrait Mrs May
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Unlike the last Labour Government, we have been absolutely clear that, for any new member states entering the European Union, we would apply transitional controls.