Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 10 June 2013.
Stephen Phillips
Conservative, Sleaford and North Hykeham
2:30,
10 June 2013
What plans she has to speed up the deportation of those refused asylum in the UK.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
We want to continue to deport those who have no right to be in the United Kingdom, whether they are failed asylum seekers or foreign national offenders. Increased use of detained fast track and our national removals centre will reduce the risk of absconding, as well as being more successful in deporting people.
Stephen Phillips
Conservative, Sleaford and North Hykeham
One of the frustrations felt by all our constituents about the asylum and wider immigration system is the seemingly endless ways in which failed asylum seekers and immigrants are able to keep on appealing. I hope that the Minister and my right hon.
Friend the Secretary of State will use the forthcoming immigration Bill to clamp down on the many rights of appeal.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
I am pleased to be able to tell my hon. and learned Friend that that is exactly what we are going to do. The immigration Bill plans to reduce the number of decisions it takes to remove someone who has no right to be in the country. Reducing the number of appeals will make the process easier and swifter.
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