Parliamentary activity - Paul Blomfield

Immigration: EU Nationals

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps she is taking to reduce the administrative requirements on EU citizens with Settled Status to prove their status without physical...

Immigration: EU Nationals

Paul Blomfield received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what guidance her Department is providing to (a) banks and (b) mortgage lenders on (i) EU Settled Status and (ii) accepting digital proof of...

Clause 11 - Accommodation For Asylum-Seekers Etc

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

May I push the Minister a little further on the issue? He has been at pains to say that the Government’s plan is not for the centres to be where people are detained. Will he therefore put...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Will the Minister give way?

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Many of us could tell similar stories of hopes dashed by the mismatch, reflected in some of the Government’s language around this legislation, between their ambition and the reality as it...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I look forward to the letter, but it would be useful to hear the evidence before the Committee is forced to vote. As colleagues have pointed out, these plans will punish the victims of the crime...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate on his comprehensive critique of clause 10. I want to add only a few points on what is clearly at the heart of the...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

So the Minister is saying that the Government’s impact assessment is wrong.

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The Minister is right to say that we all agree on the objective and that the dispute is about the effectiveness of the Government strategy. Is he not even a little unsettled by the fact that the...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. He talked again about the UK’s leading role in accepting refugees. Does he not accept that the most recent data from the UNHCR on refugees in...

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Will the Minister give way?

Clause 10 - Differential treatment of refugees

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

To respond to the earlier intervention, does the hon. Lady recognise that people from Afghanistan are currently one of the four largest national groups risking their lives on channel crossings?

Clause 9 - Citizenship: stateless minors

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the Minister for giving way, because it is important that he addresses the question that has been raised successively. The clause goes against the drift of the rest of part 1, which is...

Clause 9 - Citizenship: stateless minors

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

May I confirm that I heard the Minister right? Did he say that the Government and Home Office are clear that this is happening, but they cannot give any indication of the extent?

Clause 1 - Historical Inability of Mothers to Transmit Citizenship

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

The Minister refers to the contribution of the right hon. Member for Scarborough and Whitby. That was a challenge to give a commitment that fees should not be set at a level that does other than...

Examination of Witnesses

Nationality and Borders Bill

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q I wondered if I could follow up on clause 48—a clause you did not mention—and the proposals in the Bill that would, effectively, increase the threshold for initial identification...

Nationality and Borders Bill

Public Bill Committees

Of course, Chair, I will be very quick. You mentioned that in your view the Bill will be counterproductive to its own objectives. I think I heard you right in saying that it would hamper returns....

Examination of Witness

Nationality and Borders

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I take that point—

Examination of Witness

Nationality and Borders

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Examination of Witness

Nationality and Borders

Paul Blomfield made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

Q Okay. I understand that; we are throwing all sorts of stuff at you. But it was a report published last month by the Kaldor Centre—