Migrants & Borders
Border control, small boats, channel crossings, illegal immigration
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 81PMQs 2026-02-04
For months, our communities in Epping have been deeply distressed by the Bell hotel reopening as an asylum hotel. My thoughts remain with the victims of the sexual assaults, including the 14-year-old ...
PMQs 2025-11-19
Next to the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, a field is now covered in an enormous mound of rubbish, 150 metres long and up to 12 metres high. The water is now lapping against the waste and carrying it ...
PMQs 2025-06-18
The Home Secretary says that we should judge her success in smashing the gangs by whether the number of channel crossings falls, but under this Government the numbers are up by more than 30%. By which...
PMQs 2025-06-18
The number of people crossing the channel is at a record high. The Home Office’s suppliers are actively offering above-market deals to landlords for properties used by illegal immigrants. Why do this ...
PMQs 2025-06-18
If she wants to find out who has lost control of our borders, I suggest that she looks to her immediate right, because ever since the Home Secretary scrapped the Rwanda deterrent before it even starte...
PMQs 2025-06-18
Smearing campaigners who stand up for rape victims as being “far-right” is completely unacceptable, and the Prime Minister should never have said that. I commend his predecessor, my right hon. Friend ...
PMQs 2025-05-21
How many of those deported are failed asylum seekers that came on small boats or lorries?...
PMQs 2025-05-21
This Labour Government have been in power now for almost 12 months. When will the Prime Minister stop defying the will of the British people, stop dancing around the subject, and stop all illegal immi...
PMQs 2025-05-14
We at Reform, a party that is alive and kicking, very much enjoyed your speech on Monday. You seem to be learning a very great deal from us. But can I encourage you please to go further as a matter of...
PMQs 2025-03-12
Will the Prime Minister look at the case of my constituents Mr and Mrs Adrian Fenton who returned home from visiting France in their motorhome to discover an illegal immigrant concealed in the bike ra...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 300Asylum Seekers Accommodation 2026-03-23
Thank the Minister for working to close asylum hotels, including the Crewe Arms hotel. Will he join me in reminding Conservatives that they invented asylum hotels and presided over increased small boa...
Shop Theft 2026-03-23
Colin Appleyard Motorcycles in Keighley was recently the victim of a ram raid. Seven individuals stole nine off-road bikes worth approximately £80,000. Will the Minister tell me what the Government ar...
Shop Theft 2026-03-23
Colin Appleyard Motorcycles in Keighley was recently the victim of a ram raid. Seven individuals stole nine off-road bikes worth approximately £80,000. Will the Minister tell me what the Government ar...
Topical Questions 2026-03-23
Criminal gangs are targeting isolated farmland and woodland, dumping lorry loads of illegal waste, which poses serious environmental risks. The Environment Agency reports that offenders are saving tho...
Topical Questions 2026-03-23
Will she go to Cabinet colleagues and advise them that it would be easier to fix the asylum system if we had a much closer relationship with Europe?...
Asylum Seekers Recorded Crime 2026-03-23
I recently met Siobhan Whyte, the mother of Rhiannon. Rhiannon was brutally murdered by Sudanese illegal immigrant Deng Majek, who stabbed Rhiannon 23 times. Majek arrived by small boat in late July 2...
Asylum Seekers Recorded Crime 2026-03-23
To reassure our own citizens, will she ensure that everybody who enters this country illegally is detained and fully vetted, and, as most of their asylum claims are bogus anyway, perhaps deal with the...
Topical Questions 2026-02-12
Hard-working men and women in the coastguard, such as Bembridge resident Martin Groom, do vital work securing our borders, including, in some cases, intercepting small boats. The coastguard treats the...
Topical Questions 2026-02-09
The Rwanda scheme never started because this Government cancelled it. The Home Secretary talks about gimmicks. Her Government's gimmicks have failed, and that is why cross-channel migration is up 42% ...
Illegal Migrants Pull Factors 2026-02-09
Illegal immigration, illegal working and illegal trading frequently go hand in hand. While I welcome the shop raids last summer, without tackling illegality at source, the police and trading standards...