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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: I am proud that the Commons has reached the Third Reading of this Bill, and I hope that hon. Members on both sides of the House also feel proud to support it and to be on the right side of history. I thank the Prime Minister and the Government for introducing the Bill. I am proud, too, that Labour votes passed the Bill on Second Reading and will do so again this week. We are strongly...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: I hope that the hon. Gentleman will begin with an appropriate Abba song.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. We should recognise those people’s marriages. We should be proud to do so, and we hope that other countries across the world will join us, including countries where there is still terrible homophobic discrimination, which we should be fighting against. I hope we can lead the way by championing this Bill. We should remind people why we are...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: The hon. Gentleman is right. I pay tribute to the work he has done to champion this legislation. I think we are on the right side of history by taking it forward. It is time to celebrate, not discriminate, when a couple decide they want to make a promise to stick together for as long as they both shall live. I have had many letters and e-mails since Second Reading; I want to share some...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: Once again in the Queen’s Speech we have heard grand claims, from the Home Secretary and indeed from the Prime Minister yesterday, about what their plans will do on immigration, antisocial behaviour, law and order, and justice. Sadly, however, the grand claims are simply not backed up by the reality of what they are doing. The trouble is that we have been here before. We all remember...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: The hon. Gentleman should contain himself to squabbling within his coalition and struggling to get some answers. We have always said that action will be needed to ensure that the police can keep up with changing technology. However, the draft data communications Bill drawn up by the Home Secretary was far too wide; it gave the Home Secretary far too many powers and there were far too few...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: We have already said that the pace of migration was too fast and that the level should come down; we have supported measures in that regard. However, although the Home Secretary has made grand claims about net migration and the Immigration Minister is attempting to do the same, they will recognise that two thirds of their drop in net migration is a result of an increase in British citizens...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: The Home Secretary is targeting net migration, which she knows is affected by British people leaving the country—by people leaving as well as people arriving. I state the figures again: a 72,000 drop, 27,000 more Brits leaving the country and 20,000 fewer coming home. People obviously do not want to come back to Britain under her Government. That is the problem that she has to face.

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: Nice try from the hon. Lady, but the facts show that there is a series of problems in this Government’s measures on immigration. I agree that we should have had transitional controls on migration from eastern Europe. There are things that the Labour Government should have done but which did not happen. They should have happened. We should have people working together. There are many...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, then I want to make some progress.

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: As the hon. Gentleman will recognise, people are travelling and trading more than ever. That is why immigration is an important issue for our future and why we must get the policies right. A policy that targets net migration means that the Government can claim to have made huge progress on the things that the British people care about when they are failing to tackle exploitation in the labour...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: It is significant that the Home Office has cut around 5,000 staff from the UK Border Agency, and we have seen the consequences, for example in the growing delays for business people, who need visas rapidly, and longer delays and problems with appeals. Crucially, we also need action to deal with the exploitation of migrant workers to undercut local staff. Where is the action to enforce the...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: We are still waiting to see the detail of the Government’s policy, because in so many of these areas we get strong rhetoric but the reality does not add up to it, and often it does not even emerge. The Home Secretary might think that she is fending off the threat from UKIP, but actually she is doing the opposite. The more she ramps up the rhetoric and widens the gap between it and...

Home Affairs (9 May 2013)

Yvette Cooper: On the Home Secretary’s point about businesses that employ illegal migrants, will she explain why the number of businesses fined for so doing has dropped by 40% since the general election?

Written Answers — Home Department: Sexual Offences: Young People (25 April 2013)

Yvette Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much funding the Government has allocated since 2010-11 on improving services for people under the age of 18 who are victims of sexual violence.

Prime Minister: Abu Qatada (24 April 2013)

Yvette Cooper: I thank the Home Secretary for advance sight of her statement. The Home Secretary and the courts have agreed that Abu Qatada is a dangerous man who puts security in this country at risk, and the House is united in wanting him deported to stand fair trial in Jordan so that justice can be done and in wanting him to remain in prison in the meantime. I welcome the work that she continues to do to...

Written Answers — Justice: Youth Offending Teams (23 April 2013)

Yvette Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice which areas in England and Wales have youth offending team gang forums.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Families: Disadvantaged (22 April 2013)

Yvette Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government how many families have received an intervention from the Troubled Families programme.

Women and Equalities: Government Policy: Disabled People (18 April 2013)

Yvette Cooper: Two thirds of families hit by the bedroom tax are disabled, according to the Minister’s own figures, and for many of them there is nowhere to move to. In Wakefield district, 5,600 households are being hit by the bedroom tax, there are fewer than 200 smaller homes available, and Wakefield and District Housing estimates that it will take seven years to re-house everyone. It is even more...

Royal Assent: UK Border Agency (26 March 2013)

Yvette Cooper: Today we have had a statement made rather in haste by the Home Secretary after yesterday’s major speech from the Prime Minister barely mentioned these reforms. Only after the Prime Minister’s speech was dismissed in the media as “smoke and mirrors”, as “unravelling” and as allowing “politics to trump policy” and only after yesterday’s...