Small Boat Crossings Debate

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Department: Home Office

Small Boat Crossings

Rupert Lowe Excerpts
Wednesday 6th November 2024

(2 days, 3 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Rupert Lowe Portrait Rupert Lowe (Great Yarmouth) (Reform)
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In the Home Office annual report, it is confirmed that in 2022-23 £3 billion was spent on hotel costs for illegal migrants, averaging £8 million a day. The cruel inheritance tax assault on British family farms and businesses is estimated eventually to raise £520 million a year. Do the Labour Government need to rethink their spending priorities urgently?

Angela Eagle Portrait Dame Angela Eagle
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No. We have just had a Budget, which we are in the middle of debating and will be voting on, and I expect that that will be the way we go forwards.