Results 61–80 of 87 for immigration speaker:Lord Soames of Fletching

Written Answers — Home Department: Deportation (17 Mar 2008)

Nicholas Soames: ...dependants, foreign national prisoners at the end of the sentences, those leaving under assisted voluntary return programmes and those who it has been established left the UK without informing the immigration authorities, were removed from the UK in each of the last five years.

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Immigration (17 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Soames: I last initiated a debate on immigration matters in this House on 18 March 2003. The then Minister for Citizenship and Immigration, who is now the Minister for Children, Young People and Families, dismissed pretty much out of hand the serious and detailed points that Conservative Members made to her. Events have proved that she was totally wrong to do so, for this is a matter of the greatest...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Immigration (17 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Soames: ...those matters in my own time. Looking ahead, the Government's projections anticipate that we will add 1 million to our population every five years. Of that increase, 83 per cent. will be due to new immigrants and their descendants. Even that forecast is based on the cautious assumption that immigration will fall by about 30 per cent. from its present level and remain flat. It is still too...

[Mr. Peter Atkinson in the Chair] — Immigration (17 Jul 2007)

Nicholas Soames: ...Prime Minister trumpets his plan to build 3 million houses by 2020. Many of them will have to be on greenfield sites. What he omitted to mention was that 1 million of them will be not for existing immigrants, who are now a valuable part of our community, but for new immigrants, and that even that vast number depends on the Government's assumption that immigration will fall by 30 per cent....

Written Answers — Health: Health Services: West Sussex ( 4 Jun 2007)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make an assessment of the effect of recent trends in immigration on the delivery of (a) maternity and (b) accident and emergency services in West Sussex.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Immigration and Nationality Directorate (19 Mar 2007)

Nicholas Soames: ...admission and that, in fact, the rules relating to people who are granted temporary admission need to be tightened up considerably? Does he think that if there is any doubt at all in the minds of immigration officers, these people should be detained?

Written Answers — Treasury: Asylum Seekers ( 6 May 2003)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what adjustment for asylum seekers has been made to the International Passenger Survey Data in each of the years 1995 and 2002 to arrive at the net immigration estimates.

Immigration Statistics (18 Mar 2003)

Nicholas Soames: ...grateful for the opportunity to return to a matter of great domestic importance. I want to start by making three points absolutely clear. First, I have nothing whatever against genuine refugees and immigrants, many of whom have greatly enriched and enhanced our national life. They deserve to be welcomed and given shelter. Unfortunately, our ability to welcome them is hampered by large...

Immigration Statistics (18 Mar 2003)

Nicholas Soames: ...be able to have a proper and sensible debate about this sensitive but very important matter. There may be some argument about the detail, but there is hardly any scope to deny that we face massive immigration on a scale never before seen in this country. The pressure on public services, schools, housing, transport and the health service is already intense, particularly in the south-east,...

Written Answers — Treasury: Immigration (27 Jan 2003)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what the net non EU foreign immigration to the UK was, including the dependants of asylum seekers, in each year from 1992 to 2001 (a) before the recent adjustments to take account of the census results and (b) after these adjustments had been made.

Hunting Bill (16 Dec 2002)

Nicholas Soames: ...appear to want to run away, when, after all the Government's fine and wholly unbelievable talk, the public transport situation is catastrophic, and when they have lost their way in dealing with immigration, health, drugs and crime, they seek to introduce such a draconian Bill. It shows a want and a lack of proportion, and a misunderstanding of the feelings of ordinary people that is wholly...

Speaker's Statement ( 1 May 2002)

Nicholas Soames: On a separate and much simpler point of order, Mr. Speaker. A week ago, I tabled 14 questions to the Home Office about specific matters relating to immigration. Two of the questions were subsequently transferred to the Lord Chancellor's Department, and I have no quarrel with that. I asked the questions specifically for a named day—yesterday—and I gave the Home Office six working days to...

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers ( 1 May 2002)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many of the Afghans who landed at Stansted in February 2000 in a hijacked aircraft are in Britain; and what their immigration status is.

Written Answers — Home Department: Arranged Marriages ( 1 May 2002)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if an entry clearance officer who has grounds to suspect that a proposed marriage is primarily for the purpose of evading immigration controls has the power to refuse the issue of an entry clearance certificate to either party on those grounds.

Written Answers — Home Department: Asylum Seekers (26 Feb 2002)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what assessment he has made of the application of human rights legislation to illegal immigrants and asylum seekers.

Written Answers — Home Department: Illegal Immigrants and Overstayers (25 Feb 2002)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he has taken to remove illegal immigrants and overstayers over the last 12 months.

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Asylum System (17 Dec 2001)

Nicholas Soames: ...only for a short time? Will she look at the extremely efficient and effective way in which the Dutch handle such matters, which turns asylum seekers round quickly? Will she also make sure that the immigration people, who do a good job under difficult conditions, are reinforced when pressures build up? At the moment, Air Zimbabwe flights are a source of great anxiety to them. When pinch...

Written Answers — Home Department: Immigration and Asylum ( 5 Jul 2001)

Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent assessment he has made of the quality of statistics available to him on immigration and asylum.

Petition: Hunting with Dogs ( 7 Jul 2000)

Nicholas Soames: ...newspaper—have shown that a majority of the general public seem to disapprove of almost everything, including, inter alia, the Conservative party, buggery, tripe and black pudding, smoking, immigration, Radio 3—and, very likely, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the colour of your front door, and indeed of mine. If all those, or more, are to be made the subject of criminal offences, we shall all...

Oral Answers to Questions — Lord Chancellor's Department: Immigration Appeals ( 3 Nov 1998)

Nicholas Soames: Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, such is the backlog of immigration matters, for all sorts of different and understandable reasons, the law is being brought into disrepute? Will he examine the method used in Holland for dealing with illegal immigrants where adjudicators are on the spot the whole time so that cases can be dealt with immediately and do not block up the magistrates courts?


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