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Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 June 2026

Debate

Immigration: Eurodac and SIS II

Contribution

I thank the Minister for that. Of course, as a member of the EU, the UK was entitled, through Eurodac, to share the fingerprint information from illegal migrants, which, with the Dublin convention, gave us the means of identifying and removing them from this country. I know from my own work on SIS II that, with it, we had a means of getting—the Minister has touched on this—real-time information on the movements of terrorists and serious criminals who might threaten us here. Without either of those provisions fully in place, we are at greater risk. I therefore press the Minister: at the forthcoming EU-UK summit on that agenda, can we press very strongly indeed to get the real-time information that is so vital to our security?

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