Dame Angela Eagle

Dame Angela Eagle

Dame Angela Eagle MP

Labour
House of CommonsActive

Member since 3 July 2024

Recent Debate Contributions

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Asylum Accommodation

06/07/2025Commons

7 contributions
As it happens, I can. We have extended the move-on trial until the end of the year.
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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

06/07/2025Commons

3 contributions
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...
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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

01/06/2025Commons

5 contributions
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...
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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

01/06/2025Commons

5 contributions
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...
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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

20/05/2025Commons

26 contributions
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...
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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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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. ...
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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

30/03/2025Commons

2 contributions
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...
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Hard, tough cross-border policing takes time. [Interruption.] Conservative Members may laugh, but on a recent joint action day led by German ...
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Syrian Asylum Claims

30/03/2025Commons

4 contributions
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...
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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

30/03/2025Commons

5 contributions
My hon. Friend is exactly right. These criminals are cross-national, very sophisticated and operate across borders. In order to respond properly, we h...
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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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My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister made some announcements recently about the capacity to increase house building in this country in order...
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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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