Home Office Removal Targets Debate

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Department: Home Office

Home Office Removal Targets

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Thursday 26th April 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Order. I am keen to accommodate a few more colleagues, but there is huge pressure on time and therefore all inquiries, without exception, need to be brief, and the responses characteristically so from the Home Secretary.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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May I commend the Home Secretary for her response to the Windrush scandal but press her on the separate issue of illegal immigration? Press reports this week show that 27,000 illegal immigrants have been arrested by 28 forces in the past four years. Why is it being left to the police to arrest illegal immigrants? Why are they not being stopped at the border?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I accept that we should do more at the border, although there are areas where we are having some success. I point, in particular, to our juxtaposed border in France, in Calais, where we stop an enormous number of illegals trying to get to the UK. We are investing more money, alongside the French, to make sure we can have more success there, so I hope that my hon. Friend will see some progress.