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The Minister of State, Home Office (Lord Hanson of Flint) (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 September 2025

Debate

Borders and Asylum

Contribution

I am grateful to His Majesty’s Opposition and to the Liberal Democrats for their initial questions. I will start, if I may, with the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower. He makes the allegation that the Government are responding to the protests that have taken place around the country in August of this year, which were relatively small in number. I reassure him that the Government have a very strong plan to remove the mess in which his Government left the asylum system, the hotel backlog and the small boats crisis. The actions that we are taking are part of a long-term wider plan, which includes the immigration Bill that we will debate further tomorrow, to ensure that we resolve this issue in a way that meets our international obligations and, at the same time, deals with the issues that we all have a common interest in removing. I remind the noble Lord that this August saw the lowest number of boats for that month for four years.

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