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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"Does the hon. Member accept that under the Conservative Government asylum applications were essentially paused, which had a huge knock-on effect on accommodation costs and the number of people who had to be accommodated, and that that caused the crisis that we are in?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"From the logic of what the hon. Lady is saying, we would detain everybody—we would put the 102,000 people currently in asylum accommodation in a detention centre. Does she accept that that will cost around £47 billion, which is not credible at all?..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"Does the hon. Gentleman believe that withdrawing from those conventions will actually make those things easier? There is no basis for saying so. The truth is that we need those agreements to solve the problem—the deal with France is the start of this process of having a returns agreement again...."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered e-petitions 705383 and 718406 relating to support and accommodation for asylum seekers.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship, Dr Murrison. I lead this debate for the Petitions Committee, and I draw attention to my entry in the Register …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"I agree with the hon. Member that we absolutely must ensure that those seeking asylum have proper access to legal aid. It is much quicker and cheaper in the long run if we can flush out all the claims at the outset, so that we do not have them raised …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"I completely agree with my hon. Friend.

I will turn now to the issue of asylum support, and make two key points. First, people claiming asylum cannot access the UK’s mainstream benefits system. They receive initial full-board accommodation for 90 days, plus about £10 weekly. After that they move to …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"I do not know what is going to happen; I cannot predict the future. The point I am making is that the measures that are being taken are moving us faster in the right direction than even we had intended at the outset of the Parliament.

Labour also promised to …..."

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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"The reality is that, if we do not have a mechanism in place—and it was essentially jettisoned by the Conservative party—there is no way of creating either a deterrent or a way of working with our colleagues in Europe to address these problems upstream. If we took the position of …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"We did have a returns agreement with Europe before we withdrew from the European Union—the Dublin regulation. It was this Government that negotiated a new agreement with France in the UK-France deal. That deal, which is compliant with all the international obligations we have, is the potential way forward to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation

"The logic of that is that every country neighbouring a conflict zone should take all the refugees. That is an absurd proposition. We have to take our fair share of refugees. We take fewer than other European countries, and a responsible approach to this issue accepts that there is not …..."
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