Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Peter Bone Excerpts
Monday 17th January 2022

(2 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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I am grateful to the hon. Lady for her question. She will know that Ministers in the Home Office are always keen to try to assist in these matters wherever possible. If she could provide me with the specifics, I would be very happy to take those cases away and have a look at them.

Peter Bone Portrait Mr Peter Bone (Wellingborough) (Con)
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Does the Minister agree that one of the problems with genuine victims of human trafficking is that they are lumped together with asylum seekers? The quicker we can return bogus asylum seekers, the quicker we can get help to the genuine victims of human traffickers.

Tom Pursglove Portrait Tom Pursglove
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I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who raises an important point. It is fair to say that the Nationality and Borders Bill and the new plan for immigration focus very much on returning those who have no right to be here, while ensuring that those who require our protection and are genuinely in need of support do get that support as quickly as possible.