Speeches by Murray.

“I spent 15 years working on migration before I came into this House, including three years as the home affairs attaché in Paris, where I saw at first hand how the kind of instruments and data sharing the Home Secretary is describing can make a concrete difference in the fight against immigration crime. I also saw that,…”

“I declare an interest as a member of a trade union. We have seen a change in the labour market over recent decades. Previously, people used to stay in work for much longer; currently, the average tenure is 4.5 years—there has been a slight increase, because it has been bang on four years for the past five or six years.…”

“I promise that I will make a short intervention this time, Mr Stringer. The statistics show that one in 10 workers never spend more than a year in a job, so they are particularly affected by the lack of provision on day one. At any one time, one in five workers are within the first two years of their employment. Does m…”

“The right hon. Gentleman makes a really important point. Again, having been on the Public Bill Committee, my argument is that the Bill is proportionate.”

“Sorry, Brockwell.”

“To clarify, I was not saying the legislation was only of value after an event. I said that part of its value was the impact it had on planning for the period after an event. On the burden the right hon. Gentleman talks about on people making preparations, does he accept that it is important that they consider the poten…”

“Brockwell purchased the site for £6.3 million. You were introduced to it via Clearsprings on a basis to lease it for £6 million per year—so only slightly below what they paid for it—”

“That intervention was slightly more in scope and was also about Edinburgh, so I was happier to take it. The hon. Gentleman is right. Indeed, in advance of the Bill Committee debate and the debate that we are having now, I spoke to Edinburgh city council and to some of the event organisers, who told me that it is exactl…”

“I am struggling to understand quite how that falls within the scope of this debate, but it is important to discuss the issue of how we deal with terrorism. As we have seen in the history of this country, terrorist attacks can be both foreign and domestic. They can be homegrown, or they can come from overseas. I have ta…”

“Absolutely. There is a small element of burden in the Bill, but it is light-touch and proportionate, and the alternative scenario is significantly more burdensome. In my own city of Edinburgh, the impact of a terrorist attack and of people not feeling secure in the aftermath could be destructive not just to the lives a…”

“I welcome the fact that the discussion in the House today shows real cross-party support for the aims, principles and objectives of the Bill, and that the amendments focus only on nuances and more technical aspects. That shows that we are all united in trying to achieve this goal and in preventing tragedies such as tha…”

“The Bill’s provisions are appropriate for venues below the enhanced tier. They are proportionate, low-cost and not onerous. They are prompts to encourage organisations to do the kind of thinking that they should do anyway to prevent terrorism or any kinds of attack. The measures are not disproportionate at all, and the…”

“I thank you, and I thank the Committee for allowing an interloper to join you. We are where we are with this, and it is about the Home Office’s capacity to learn lessons, as you have been saying. I wanted to ask a little bit about how you learned lessons as you were going on. In the Linton-on-Ouse example, you were als…”

“How did that happen—”

“When you saw that Linton was not working, the Bibby Stockholm was not working and Rwanda was not working, and you started spending lots of money here, was there a point when you thought, “Maybe this is not just contracts misfiring in little ways; maybe the programmatic work of the Home Office is in danger”?”

“Presumably contract management as well. On that point about capacity—this ties into Clive Betts’s question—the Home Office clearly had a problem with either purchasing property or managing contractors to purchase property for them. My question is, has anyone been demoted, are there contractors you have decided you will…”

“May I ask about how the Home Office engages with stakeholders as it does that? I am asking about Clearsprings, in particular. Am I right in thinking that Clearsprings purchased the site for £6.3 million— Sir Matthew Rycroft indicated dissent.”

“No, that is not right?”

“Again, that would be good. Are you seeing it having any concrete impact so far?”

“One of the key determinants is how many asylum seekers are coming into the system. What impact is the new border security command having on those flows into the system? How are you seeing that system adjust in response to those changing flows?”