UK Border: Covid Protections Debate

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Department: Home Office

UK Border: Covid Protections

Scott Benton Excerpts
Tuesday 26th January 2021

(3 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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The hon. Gentleman has made the case for a stronger United Kingdom and for the Union working together, which is absolutely right, and we have been doing that, with Border Force in particular. I pay tribute to my Border Force colleagues across the country for the very strong work they are doing, in Scotland, Wales and across the UK, because they have been on the frontline every day.

Scott Benton Portrait Scott Benton (Blackpool South) (Con) [V]
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Does my right hon. Friend agree that a key benefit of Brexit is that decisions on our immigration, national security and borders are now exclusively matters for Her Majesty’s Government?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. He will know that in Britain post Brexit we are clear in terms of the powers and decisions that we are able to undertake. That is, of course, effectively what the Government are now doing, and my hon. Friend has highlighted some clear areas where that change has now happened.