Migrants & Borders
Border control, small boats, channel crossings, illegal immigration
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 65PMQs 2026-07-01
In Ashfield, four workers, including two nurses, were kicked out of their HMO, only for Serco to put four illegal migrants in their place. One of those illegal migrants is now doing 14 years in prison...
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Happy birthday, Mr Speaker. We all condemn, of course, the appalling violence in Belfast last night after the horrific attack on Monday. But this Prime Minister is in denial of the rising despair acro...
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I associate myself with the Prime Minister's remarks about the helicopter crash. The north Belfast attack on Monday was medieval and sadistic, viewed by millions. It requires the strongest condemnatio...
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The Prime Minister promised 'smash the gangs' but 70,000 people later, with 1,000 in the last week and many threatening national security, is it not time to admit that this has been a failure? What is...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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How many of those deported are failed asylum seekers that came on small boats or lorries?...
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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...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 246Topical Questions 2026-09-07
Last week, police and Trading Standards carried out co-ordinated visits, led by our local police officer, to retail premises on Fleet Road over suspected criminality, which is of increasing concern to...
Climate Change National Security 2026-09-01
May I put on record that the Liberal Democrats' concern and thoughts are with the people of Nepal and Tibet as this tragedy unfolds? I urge the Government to stay the distance with them. The UK's spen...
EU Entry-Exit System Transport Delays 2026-07-16
How on earth have we got to a situation where the Secretary of State is making last-minute dashes to the European Commission and the French Government?...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
As the House will know, the Home Office does not routinely publish figures on the number of small boat arrivals who abscond or whose whereabouts subsequently becomes unknown. Given that the Department...
Asylum Hotels 2026-07-13
What plans does she have for truly deterring people from coming to Britain on small boats? The concern is about reducing inflow and ensuring effective deterrence strategies....
Community Cohesion 2026-07-08
The attempted murder of Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast last month shocked people throughout the country. The man accused of this horrific attack is thought to have crossed into Northern Ireland illegally ...
Recent Disorder 2026-07-08
Does the Secretary of State accept that while there can never be any excuse for criminal disorder, there is equally no excuse for a border policy that leaves Northern Ireland exposed? How many more in...
Topical Questions 2026-07-02
I know the Secretary of State will join me in wishing the United States a very happy 250th birthday on Saturday. It was John Pym and Members of this House four centuries ago who helped found the Ameri...
Illegal Migration
What steps her Department is taking to help reduce levels of illegal migration. My constituents will strongly welcome the most recent data showing that small boat arrivals are massively down this year...
Clean Waterways Thames Valley
Will the Minister have a look at this issue and discuss it with the Environment Agency, so that slum boats on EA land can either be registered properly and policed, or moved on?...