Emergency Summit on Knife Crime

22 Mar 2019

Commons debates

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. On 12 March, I asked the Home Office a written question seeking the time it takes for emergency travel document applications to be secured for a person in...

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Emergency Summit on Knife Crime

22 Mar 2019

Commons debates

Recently in Manchester, 17-year-old Yousef Makki was stabbed to death by another teenager. Last week, the response time of Greater Manchester police rose from six minutes to 12 minutes, and GMP...

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Gaza Border Deaths: Unhrc Inquiry

22 Mar 2019

Commons debates

The recent resumption of protests in Gaza and the preparation of the Israeli military for conflict scenarios inside Gaza are both highly worrying signs. Does the Minister agree that instead of a...

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Immigrants: Detainees

15 Mar 2019

Home Office

Afzal Khan received a response to a question they put to the government

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if he will publish the time taken for each Emergency Travel Document application to be secured for a person in immigration detention for...

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Kashmir

07 Mar 2019

Commons debates

I thank the Government for the steps they have taken to de-escalate the tension between Pakistan and India. The world cannot afford for these two nuclear countries to go to war. We all want to...

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Short-term visas

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

May I add my thanks to you, Mr Stringer, and your colleague, Sir David Amess, for the excellent job you have done of steering us through the Bill? I thank the Clerks for all the help they have...

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Short-term visas

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We support the new clause to expand the remit of the GLAA. The GLAA performs a vital role in safeguarding the rights of workers and it is right that that should extend to the widest categories of...

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Illegal working: EEA and Swiss nationals

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We support the new clauses. As has been set out by the TUC and Focus on Labour Exploitation, it is essential that migrants are able to claim their rights at work. That means not being arrested...

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Refugee family reunion

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We support this new clause. I spoke in the Second Reading debate on the private Member’s Bill that would have implemented these changes. I commend the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth...

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No fees for applications under appendix EU to the Immigration Rules

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We support all these new clauses. I will speak briefly on new clause 38, which is in my name. New clause 38 has three distinct provisions. The first would ensure that EEA and Swiss nationals...

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Extension of the remit of the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

This is a sensible amendment. The independent chief inspector of borders and immigration plays a vital role in inspecting and reporting on Home Office activities. Where the EU settlement scheme...

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Memorandum of understanding between the Department for Work and Pensions and the Home Office on the automated residency check for the EU Settlement Scheme

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We support these amendments. I make two brief comments. First, the EU settlement scheme will entail an enormous amount of data sharing between the Home Office and other Departments. It is right...

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EEA Nationals and the TOEIC test

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I strongly agree with the new clause. I have been involved in campaigning on the TOEIC test issue. It is a burning injustice that is long overdue for resolution by the Home Office. Thousands of...

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Settled status

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We wish to press new clause 15 to a vote.

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Settled status

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

My hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield Central will speak to new clause 15.

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Settled status

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

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Hostile environment and EEA nationals

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I thank the Minister for what has been said this morning. However, we take the position that the hostile environment must be dismantled and we do not wish to see EU citizens going through what...

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Hostile environment and EEA nationals

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

We hear what the Minister is saying about people who have no right to be here, but the fact is that people who have a right to be here can become a victim of the hostile environment. That is what...

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Hostile environment and EEA nationals

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. The amendment would ensure that the hostile environment was not applied to EU citizens until 3 million people had been registered, or until...

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Settled status: right to appeal

05 Mar 2019

Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill

Afzal Khan made a speech in a committee scrutinising a proposed law

I will press the new clause to a vote.

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