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“Securing Wales’ Future” — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Immigration
Alun Hugh Cairns (Conservative, Centre-right): My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and others have said that we want to seek the earliest agreement to secure the status of EU nationals living in the UK and of UK nationals living in the EU. It is not in our interests to undermine any one sector. We would like to press for an early agreement, but it takes two people to come to an agreement.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Civil Rights
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): I am sure that Members across the House will wish to join me in marking International Women’s Day, as we celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women both here and around the world. We are also redoubling our efforts to tackle the problems that women all too often still face This morning, I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this House, I shall have further such meetings later today.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Domestic Commerce
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The business rates retention pilot will come into force for a number of councils this April, and that includes, as I have already said, Liverpool, Greater Manchester, Greater London and others. In 2019-20, it will be available to 100% of councils. Councils will be able to apply to be part of a further pilot in 2018-19, and that goes for all councils across the country.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Other
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): The right hon. Gentleman really should listen to the answers I give before he asks the next question. He said I did not answer the question about a special deal for Surrey; I think that I have now answered it three times, but I shall do it a fourth time: there was no special deal for Surrey that was not available to other councils.
Engagements — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Immigration
Questions: This week in Erewash, it is likely that, sadly, four people will suffer a stroke. With that in mind and given that the current highly successful stroke strategy expires later this year, will my right hon. Friend commit her Government to publish an updated strategy that includes advances in stroke treatments, such as mechanical thrombectomy, which dramatically improves outcomes for one in 10 patients?
Theresa Mary May (Conservative, Centre-right): As the right hon. Gentleman knows, we want to have an early agreement that will enable us to guarantee the status of EU citizens living in the UK, but also we need to guarantee the status of UK citizens living in the European Union. On the process of application, the Home Office is looking at that and at how it can improve the systems and simplify them, which it regularly does.
Midlands Engine — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Questions: What recent assessment she has made of the (a) performance of the economy and (b) adequacy of provision of public services in the Midlands Engine region; and if she will make a statement.
Michael Louis David Fabricant (Conservative, Centre-right): And of course we have also witnessed the post-Brexit vote of confidence from Nissan, Boeing and Dyson investing in other parts of the country, but will my right hon. Friend say a little bit more about firms like Jaguar Land Rover in the west midlands?
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
David John Barrington Burrowes (Conservative, Centre-right): In the spirit of thanking the Chancellor, will my right hon. Friend join me in thanking him for saying on page 35 of the Red Book that he wants to consult on introducing a new duty band for still cider just below the 7.5% band that targets white ciders? Many Members on both sides of the House will know that white cider is particularly damaging to young people and homeless people, and the consultation is a great signal of intent that we will get to grips with the issue, so that we do not have this harmful, damaging and too-cheap white cider on our high streets and particularly in our off-licences.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Mixed Topics
Andrew Tyrie (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has made his point, and he may well be right. I never talk about cider for long in the House of Commons because, whatever I say, I have always found that it results in a great deal of correspondence. I will avoid cider altogether I end on a couple of larger points about the backdrop to the Budget. The Chancellor is having to deal with two big risks. First among those, and by far the biggest, is the risk to the economic prosperity of our constituents and the stability of the west from the resurgence of economic nationalism. There is a bit of that in Britain and a great deal more elsewhere in the world. Protectionism has been on the rise for some time, and it is already affecting global growth. It is worth bearing in mind that global growth has been anaemic over the past five years compared with the average of the past 30 years, and that includes the effects of the financial crash. There is a big difference between those two numbers Global trade growth has been even weaker. Global trade is now declining as a share of world economic activity, and we should all be concerned about that. The link between prosperity and trade does not seem to have registered with President Trump, at least not yet. He has withdrawn from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership looks to be in trouble. He has called the World Trade Organisation "a disaster," and he is threatening to withdraw from that, too. But not the Prime Minister. She has made it clear that Britain should be the firmest advocate for free trade anywhere in the world, and she is right. If it were all to go wrong and we were to return to full-blooded protectionism, we would not have to look into a crystal ball; we could read the book of the 1930s.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Other
John Alan Redwood (Conservative, Centre-right): I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman shared my scepticism. I just wish that he had said rather more at the time when we were fighting the referendum campaign, because I do not remember him being on my side or making similarly helpful comments before people went to vote.
Budget Resolutions — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Housing
Michael Mark Prisk (Conservative, Centre-right): One of the difficulties I found when I was Minister with responsibility for construction was that statistics from the Office for National Statistics are often incomplete and based on only partial information. Does my right hon. Friend agree that if forecasts were more infrequent, we might get the numbers right more often?
Proposed Development of Two Distribution Buildings on Land South of Meadow Lane, Raunds — House of Commons, 2017-03-08
Topic: Housing
Thomas Christopher John Pursglove (Conservative, Centre-right): I rise to present a petition on behalf of residents of Raunds and Stanwick, in the names of Geoff Dyne and Sue Göksu, relating to the proposed development of two distribution buildings on land south of Meadow Lane in Raunds The petition states: The petition of residents of the UK, Declares that residents of Raunds and Stanwick wish to oppose the planning application Ref.16/02119/FUL for a proposed development of two distribution buildings, on land South of Meadow Lane; further that at a meeting in the town and at the town Council there was very strong support for refusal of this development; further notes that the grounds for refusal include that this is a protected open space listed in the proposed Neighbourhood Plan; further that the plans are contrary to the aims of the Nene Valley Nature Improvement Plan recently adopted by East Northamptonshire Council; further that the proposed development is close to a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest; further that the transport assessment has calculated there will be daily just under 800 HGV movements as well as employees’ cars, including during the night, with significant pollution effects and that the increase in traffic to the site and along the A45 will have a detrimental effect upon local air conditions; further that reversing alarms, loading and unloading and vehicle movements will cause significant noise pollution day and night; further that light pollution will inevitably increase, especially with a 24-hour operation; further that there is a considerable hydrology and flood risk; further that the development will create an industrial feel to anyone walking down Meadow Lane, which could not be mitigated by any planting due to the height of the proposed building and earth formed platform approaching 29 metres above ground level; further that as employees at the current site near Northampton are to be given inducements to move their work place to Raunds, there would be minimal employment opportunities for local people; further that the proposed large visually solid buildings will have a detrimental effect on the setting for Stanwick Lakes as they will be clearly visible from this country park and will also have considerable impact on the setting for Raunds and Stanwick; further declares that the submitted Neighbourhood Plan seeks to protect this area of land from development, to protect the rural character of the area and those who regularly use Meadow Lane to connect to Stanwick Lakes; further that allowing this development will seriously undermine the Neighbourhood Plan objectives and will be against the wishes of the local community The petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons urges the Government to urge East Northamptonshire Council to refuse the planning application Ref. 16/02119/FUL for a proposed development of two distribution buildings, on land South of Meadow Lane And the petitioners remain, etc [P002026]
Controlling and Coercive Behaviour — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of current legislation on controlling and coercive behaviour; and if she will make a statement.; May I commend the Government for their recent action to combat coercive or controlling behaviour by creating this new offence? Will the Minister outline the work that police forces are doing up and down the country to combat crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as stalking?
Sarah Louise Newton (Conservative, Centre-right): This Government have done more than any other to keep women and children in our country safe. It is very disappointing when the right hon. Lady takes a partisan approach to something that should unite the House rather than dividing it. As she knows, we have committed £20 million to refuges, and we have an £80 million transformation fund. Grassroots organisations throughout the country are benefiting from our record level of investment in services to keep women and children safe.
Controlling and Coercive Behaviour — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Civil Rights
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of current legislation on controlling and coercive behaviour; and if she will make a statement.; May I commend the Government for their recent action to combat coercive or controlling behaviour by creating this new offence? Will the Minister outline the work that police forces are doing up and down the country to combat crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as stalking?
Stewart Jackson (Conservative, Centre-right): Coercion and controlling behaviour take different forms. Will the Minister undertake to extend the legislation to the postal voting regime? At every election, the votes of thousands of women are stolen through abuse of the postal voting system during so-called community voting, largely in the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities. That is not acceptable, and the Government need to act now.
Controlling and Coercive Behaviour — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Civil Rights
Questions: What assessment her Department has made of the effectiveness of current legislation on controlling and coercive behaviour; and if she will make a statement.; May I commend the Government for their recent action to combat coercive or controlling behaviour by creating this new offence? Will the Minister outline the work that police forces are doing up and down the country to combat crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as stalking?
Sarah Louise Newton (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend has raised an incredibly important issue. What could be more important than people’s fundamental right to express their opinions at the ballot box, and to elect representatives to town councils and the House of Commons? We shall be taking a very close look at what more we can do to use those powers, and any others, to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to vote.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Amber Rudd (Conservative, Centre-right): The Prime Minister has made it clear that one of her 12 negotiating priorities is to secure the status of EU nationals already living in the UK as soon as possible, once formal negotiations have begun. She has also made it clear that she seeks a deal based on reciprocity, which also secures the status of UK nationals living elsewhere in the EU.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Other
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
John Simon Bercow (Conservative, Centre-right): Order. That is too long, I am afraid. We have got the gist of the question, and we are grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but we have a lot to get through and not much time in which to do so.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Amber Rudd (Conservative, Centre-right): I urge the hon. Gentleman to reassure his constituents, if that is what they are, about how valued they are for the contribution they make to the UK economy. I also point out that the recent immigration statistics show that we remain just as popular a destination as ever for EU nationals.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Edward Julian Egerton Leigh (Conservative, Centre-right): We cannot even deport convicted criminals. The reality is that even if we wanted to, which we do not, we are not going to deport a single EU national. It seems to me that we might as well acknowledge this fact now, while reserving the right, in the extremely unlikely possibility of our EU partners deporting any UK citizens—which they will not, for the same practical reasons—to change our mind. But let us at least reassure these people now.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Amber Rudd (Conservative, Centre-right): My hon. Friend makes a very fair observation about the reality of the situation. I point out, however, that as he seeks the assurance and certainty that the EU citizens who are here want, I seek it, too, for the UK citizens who are in other parts of the EU. It is a priority; the Prime Minister has said that she will move on to that as soon as negotiations begin.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Huw William Merriman (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Home Secretary agree that the hon. Member for Argyll and Bute (Brendan O’Hara) could refer his constituents to the acquired rights EU citizens might have under the Vienna convention? Those same rights might not be available to UK citizens abroad, who also need our protection.
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Oliver James Dowden (Conservative, Centre-right): Does the Home Secretary agree that we can reassure EU nationals that their rights to remain in this country are guaranteed in our law and that it would require an Act of Parliament, at the very least, to remove those rights?
Leaving the EU: Residency Rights — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.; If she will make it her policy for non-UK EU citizens resident in the UK to retain full residency rights after the UK has left the EU.
Amber Rudd (Conservative, Centre-right): It is because we care about employers and the jobs that they provide that we will be consulting during the summer on the right form of immigration process to put in place as we leave the European Union. There is no question but that this Government are going to continue to listen carefully to the employers who have provided so many jobs to people in the UK and quite a few in the European Union as well.
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): The Dublin process works well and is well established. Indeed, a member of the Home Office staff is embedded in Athens, helping the process to work. Although we had a fast-track system during the Calais clearances, it is important that, first, we identify that the children are who they say they are and, secondly, that they can be properly cared for by the family they are placed with.
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): I certainly look forward to appearing before the right hon. Lady’s Committee to give the Government’s side of the story. I do not recognise the figures that I saw, and I suspect that some of the methodology behind them will not bear too much scrutiny. If spaces are available with local authorities, it is important that they are made available for the national transfer scheme. Kent County Council, for example, has 400 surplus children over its normal capacity—Croydon is another—which makes things difficult.
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: I am pleased that Cambridgeshire County Council has accepted people from the unaccompanied asylum seekers dispersal scheme and that Cambridge City Council, together with East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire District Councils, is welcoming 100 refugees. Does the Minister think that councils should do what they can and, more importantly, that we should properly welcome the people who come and integrate them into our communities?
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): I pay tribute to local authorities such as Cambridgeshire that not only take in children under the national transfer scheme but make families welcome under our scheme for the 20,000 children and their families coming from the camps around Syria and the 3,000 children and their families from the wider middle east and north Africa area.
Unaccompanied Refugee/Asylum-seeking Children — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Questions: I am pleased that Cambridgeshire County Council has accepted people from the unaccompanied asylum seekers dispersal scheme and that Cambridge City Council, together with East Cambridgeshire and South Cambridgeshire District Councils, is welcoming 100 refugees. Does the Minister think that councils should do what they can and, more importantly, that we should properly welcome the people who come and integrate them into our communities?
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): If any parallels are to be drawn between Nazi Germany and the situation nowadays, they would be in the situation in Syria, not in our European neighbours and partners. I point out for the record that of the 750 children we took from Calais under both Dubs and Dublin fewer than 10 were actually from Syria. We should concentrate on the children and their families most in need, and they are the ones in the refugee camps in the region.
Immigration Rules: Spouse Visas — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): The Supreme Court has now endorsed our approach in setting a minimum income threshold for spouse visas to prevent burdens on the taxpayer and ensure that migrant families can integrate into our communities. That is central to building an immigration system that works in the national interest.
Immigration Rules: Spouse Visas — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): It is important that family life must not be established here at the taxpayer’s expense and that families are able to integrate. That is what our family immigration rules achieve, an approach that the Supreme Court has now endorsed.
Refugee Camp: Calais — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): Both countries are alive to the risk of new camps forming in northern France and are continuing to work together to combat the criminal groups that facilitate people smuggling. The UK Government are contributing up to £36 million to support the situation in Calais and ensure that the camp remains closed in the long term.
Refugee Camp: Calais — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Immigration
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The principle of first safe country is central to the asylum policy. If people are in France, they should claim asylum in France and have their fingerprints taken. We can then use those biometrics in the Dublin process to ensure that the people are dealt with properly. We certainly urge our French friends to ensure that that can be done, and we encourage asylum seekers in France to go through that process.
Refugee Camp: Calais — House of Commons, 2017-03-06
Topic: Mixed Topics
Robert Goodwill (Conservative, Centre-right): The site of the former Calais camp remains clear and there is ongoing work, supported by UK funding, permanently to remove all former camp infrastructure and accommodation and to restore the site to its natural state. That work will help to prevent any re-establishment of squats or camps in the area.