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Migration Reforms

Written Ministerial Statements

I am today laying before the House a Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules. Introduction of the Visa Brake The number of asylum claims from people who arrived in the UK on a visa or...

Asylum changes

Written Ministerial Statements

This country will always provide sanctuary to those fleeing war and persecution. But we must also ensure our asylum system is not creating pull factors that draw people on dangerous journeys...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I am delighted that town centre crime has fallen by 15% in my hon. Friend’s constituency. It has fallen in many towns across the land since this Government came to power—not just...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

These are the right reforms. We have set out our proposals for an earned settlement scheme, and they are being consulted on. That consultation closes in a matter of days, and the Government will...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Let me condemn in the strongest possible terms all the antisemitic incidents that the hon. Gentleman has highlighted in his question. This Government will not stand for any antisemitism in our...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Yes, I am, because having an ordered migration system both for legal migration and to sort out the problems of illegal migration is absolutely critical to maintaining public confidence across the...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

We are already taking action. We will go much further, and we will not stop until we have restored order to our border.

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The shadow Home Secretary has only picked up this new policy of leaving the ECHR in opposition; it is not one that the Conservatives took up when they were in government. [Interruption.] I am...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Let me say first and foremost that the murder of Rhiannon Whyte was an abhorrent crime and our thoughts are with her loved ones. I would caution all Members against using individual cases to make...

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

The testimony of the victims that the hon. Gentleman has heard from is absolutely horrifying, and the grooming gangs scandal was one of the darkest moments in this country’s history....

Topical Questions

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

This Government pledged to restore order and control to our borders, and our work is taking effect. Since we took office, removals of illegal migrants are up 31%, to nearly 60,000, forced returns...

Police Efficiency: Technology

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I am very pleased that the hon. Member raises that issue, and I am happy to look at the detail of what he has seen in his constituency. Let me assure him that there is a lot of work happening...

Police Efficiency: Technology

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I thank my hon. Friend for raising the scourge of synthetic cathinones. Let me assure her that the work of the National Crime Agency, Royal Mail and others continues apace. The use of synthetic...

Police Efficiency: Technology

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

We are investing a record £140 million in state-of-the-art technology to make our communities safer, including the roll-out of the live facial recognition technology that is already...

Illegal Migrants: Pull Factors

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Unlike most of Westminster, I am not plagued with “America brain”, and I do not spend any of my time worrying about what is happening over in the States. As the Home Secretary, I...

Illegal Migrants: Pull Factors

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

What the shadow Minister should have done first is apologise for being part of an Administration who opened the social care route, which was open to such horrifying levels of abuse. That route...

Illegal Migrants: Pull Factors

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I gently say to the right hon. Gentleman that I am always willing to listen to advice, wherever it may come from, but I point out that in 14 years under his party in government, we did not see...

Illegal Migrants: Pull Factors

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

I can give my hon. Friend that reassurance. Illegal working undermines honest employers, undercuts local wages and fuels organised immigration crime, and this Government will not stand for it....

Illegal Migrants: Pull Factors

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

With asylum claims falling in Europe and rising here, we must reduce the incentives that pull people here. The permanence of refugee status in this country is clearly a pull factor, and we are...

Asylum Seekers: Hotels

Home Department

Shabana Mahmood made a speech in the House of Commons

Asylum claims are being processed at the fastest rate for 20 years, so we are moving very quickly to deal with those claims. As I am sure the hon. Lady knows, though, many of those people go on...