Home Office Removal Targets Debate

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Department: Home Office

Home Office Removal Targets

Rachael Maskell Excerpts
Thursday 26th April 2018

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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My hon. Friend is right: it is a completely different situation. Everybody in the House wants to welcome the Windrush cohort and ensure that they are properly looked after and that a compensation scheme is put in place, which is the right thing to do, but we all have a different view about illegal migrants.

Rachael Maskell Portrait Rachael Maskell (York Central) (Lab/Co-op)
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This week the Home Secretary said that she was not aware of a number of policy initiatives. Who is running her Department?

Amber Rudd Portrait Amber Rudd
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I accept the criticism regarding the issue that I debated earlier today and my conversations with the Home Affairs Committee, and that is why I am in the House to set out the changes that I will make. I hope I will have the opportunity to make those changes clear to the House in future, and to continue to develop the confidence of everybody involved.