Ms Diane Abbott - Contributions

Ms Diane Abbott

Labour
Commons, Hackney North and Stoke Newington (1987 - present)

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Policing and Crime Bill

Commons Chamber on 10 January 201710/01/2017

I rise to speak to this large group of amendments. In moving on to making what I hope will be brief remarks, I have to say how disappointed I am that the Government were not willing to move on the question of parity of funding, which is an issue not just...

EU Asylum Reform Package

General Committees on 19 December 201619/12/2016

The Minister was at pains to say earlier that the function of a national asylum system is a sovereign matter, but I put it to the Committee that there is inevitably a tension between sovereignty and an international system that is fit for purpose in the l...

EU Asylum Reform Package

General Committees on 19 December 201619/12/2016

I noted the Minister’s saying that the reason we are debating these measures after they have gone through the House is because of a mistake “in this building”. Does he mean a mistake by the Clerks or the usual channels?

EU Asylum Reform Package

General Committees on 19 December 201619/12/2016

Further to that point of order, Mr Evans. The Opposition are not entirely clear why we have to debate something that the House has already passed. I take the proceedings of the House very seriously, and always have done, and therefore do not believe that...

Prevention and Suppression of Terrorism

Commons Chamber on 14 December 201614/12/2016

The Opposition welcome this order proscribing the new Nazi group National Action and give it our full support. We have heard from the Minister and others on both sides of the House about some of its appalling actions and propaganda, whether Nazi salutes i...

Asset Recovery Regime

Commons Chamber on 5 December 201605/12/2016

Is the Secretary of State aware that the cross-border flow of proceeds from criminal activity, corruption and tax evasion is estimated at over $1 trillion a year, and that half that money was looted from poor and developing countries? What steps is she ta...

Police Forces

Commons Chamber on 5 December 201605/12/2016

Is the Minister aware that a more diverse police force has been an aim of forces such as the Metropolitan police since the 1970s? Is he aware that the underlying reason why there has been limited success is, sadly, continuing poor police-community relatio...

Unskilled Migration: Employment Levels

Commons Chamber on 5 December 201605/12/2016

Is the Secretary of State aware that the London School of Economics Centre for Economic Performance looked at the issue of immigration employment regionally? It found that the areas with the largest increase in EU immigration had not seen the sharpest fal...

Refugee Family Reunion (Immigration Rules)

Westminster Hall on 29 November 201629/11/2016

The Minister talks about how the system works. What does he have to say to the suggestion from my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire) that we should have a broader definition of family that is not just immediate family?

Refugee Family Reunion (Immigration Rules)

Westminster Hall on 29 November 201629/11/2016

My hon. Friend is completely correct: this is a not a debate that makes sense in the UK any more than it makes sense in the US—a country that was built on immigration, more than any other society that can be named. However, because migrants, refugees, asy...

Refugee Family Reunion (Immigration Rules)

Westminster Hall on 29 November 201629/11/2016

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. If we regard these people as people, then gaining refugee status is only the beginning, as has been said. What they need around them, if at all possible, is their family. That is what the unfair and inapp...

Refugee Family Reunion (Immigration Rules)

Westminster Hall on 29 November 201629/11/2016

I have to tell my hon. Friend that the weight of the public debate on immigration sometimes stops politicians doing the fair and rational thing on refugees. When we live in a political time in which a well-read tabloid newspaper can have on its front page...

Refugee Family Reunion (Immigration Rules)

Westminster Hall on 29 November 201629/11/2016

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Sir Alan. I begin by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol West (Thangam Debbonaire) on securing this important debate and, if I may say so, on making a powerful speech. With a big immigrat...

Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Metropolitan Police

Commons Chamber on 25 November 201625/11/2016

The Home Office said in its “Annual Report and Accounts 2015-16”: “We have already recognised CSA as a national threat in the Strategic Policing Requirement, obliging forces to maximise specialist skills and expertise to prevent offending and resolve c...

Child Sexual Abuse Cases: Metropolitan Police

Commons Chamber on 25 November 201625/11/2016

(Urgent Question): To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if she will make a statement on the recent review conducted by Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary into the Metropolitan police’s handling of child sexual abuse cases.

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Commons Chamber on 21 November 201621/11/2016

This inquiry is on its fourth chair. Every time, Ministers have come to the House and asserted that the current chair is the right person to take the inquiry forward. Having said that for the fourth time, why do they expect the House, the public and, abov...

Immigration Rules (International Students)

Westminster Hall on 16 November 201616/11/2016

I am grateful to the distinguished former Chair of the Select Committee on Home Affairs for making that point. Several stakeholders oppose what is happening. They include Universities UK, the teaching unions, the National Union of Students and many loc...

Immigration Rules (International Students)

Westminster Hall on 16 November 201616/11/2016

I congratulate the hon. Member for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East (Stuart C. McDonald) on securing this very important debate. It gives me great pleasure to place it on the record that Her Majesty’s Opposition believe that we should remove in...

Immigration Rules (International Students)

Westminster Hall on 16 November 201616/11/2016

People of intelligence and good will voted both for and against Brexit. Does the right hon. Lady agree that many people are now frightened by some of the rhetoric they have heard around Brexit, and that it is the responsibility of the House to allay those...

Investigatory Powers Bill

Commons Chamber on 15 November 201615/11/2016

I am grateful to the hon. and learned Lady for that very important point. Leveson was public and engaged, and it expressed widespread concern. With millions spent on Leveson, the Government now propose a private, secret consultation.

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