Dame Angela Eagle
Dame Angela Eagle MP
Labour
•House of Commons•ActiveMember since 3 July 2024
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Asylum Accommodation
06/07/2025 • Commons
As it happens, I can. We have extended the move-on trial until the end of the year.
We have had a 50% increase in raids and arrests on illegal working since we came into government, so perhaps the shadow Home Secretary should have spe...
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Topical Questions
06/07/2025 • Commons
By speeding up the asylum process, so that people are not trapped in asylum hotels by huge backlogs, and by increasing decision making by 116%, follow...
I assure the hon. Member that we take action against those who break the rules by working illegally. Raids and arrests for illegal working are up 50% ...
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Topical Questions
01/06/2025 • Commons
Anyone who is in a hotel is someone who has claimed asylum, and whose asylum claim is pending. They are not necessarily illegal immigrants at all, and...
There is an amendment to the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill that extends the requirement to check illegal working to the
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Illegal Working
01/06/2025 • Commons
We are shortening the time that it takes to process asylum claims by getting the system that we inherited from the Conservatives working again. That i...
We are tackling illegal working by significantly increasing enforcement. That is why we have had a 40% increase in visits and a 42% increase in the nu...
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Immigration
20/05/2025 • Commons
Does my hon. Friend agree that when we came into government, there were more than 18,000 foreign national offenders living in our communities who shou...
No.
Turning to legal migration, through the plans in our immigration White Paper, we will deliver a system that supports our efforts to reduce net ...
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Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
11/05/2025 • Commons
I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.
This Bill restores order to an asylum system that was left in chaos by the Conservatives. ...
The Minister for Citizenship and Migration, my hon. Friend the Member for Feltham and Heston (Seema Malhotra), has just made it clear to me from the F...
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Topical Questions
30/03/2025 • Commons
As I said earlier, we are keeping under close review the pause in Syrian asylum applications. We cannot decide asylum applications against a country p...
Hard, tough cross-border policing takes time. [Interruption.] Conservative Members may laugh, but on a recent joint action day led by German ...
Syrian Asylum Claims
30/03/2025 • Commons
Some 84,000 people crossed the channel from the day the Rwandan deal was signed to the day it was scrapped. The Conservatives failed to deter a single...
We do not comment on where hotels are, but I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there are 216 hotels across the whole country. We will be getting those ...
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People Smuggling
30/03/2025 • Commons
My hon. Friend is exactly right. These criminals are cross-national, very sophisticated and operate across borders. In order to respond properly, we h...
We have a duty to ensure that those arriving on our shores who claim asylum are properly processed. The Conservatives prevented themselves from doing ...
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Asylum Hotels and Illegal Channel Crossings
25/03/2025 • Commons
My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister made some announcements recently about the capacity to increase house building in this country in order...
We have restarted asylum processing, and we are looking into what we can do to speed up the appeals backlog that we inherited. We will create a system...
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