Speeches by Murray.

“Do you think they should be looking at who comes in through the student visa route?”

“Yes, and the open-ended ability to stay and open-ended access to the labour market, with no restrictions at all.”

“I will come back to the Ukrainian scheme and how that is a model. I absolutely understand that it can be challenging for Ukrainians in the UK, and before I was elected I worked on resettling Ukrainian refugees. I worked for the Refugee Survival Trust, so I do get the challenges. There is also the reality that the Ukrai…”

“That is interesting. You mentioned in your earlier comments that migrants say they do not want to be Dublinised, which is why they come to the UK. With the one-in, one-out deal, what is your view on how much these individuals understand the policy context in which they are operating? On the one hand, the evidence we ar…”

“I want to come in on the point about making the one-in, one-out deal a lottery. The criteria for which people come are pretty opaque. In a sense, it is a lottery in many ways, because it is not predictable who will be eligible if they apply. Why do you think that would be such a game-changer?”

“One aspect of the Danish system, which the Home Secretary was clear that she will not be taking up, is the seizure of jewellery. Are you saying that might be one of the things that made the difference in Denmark?”

“Coming back to that point that you were making about the US, Ms Benton, do you think there are other international examples that the UK should be looking at? Obviously, US asylum policy has changed drastically over the last four or five years. Do you think that is a model we should be looking at? Could we look at it? A…”

“That is interesting, and it was going to be my follow-up question. I want to ask about international comparisons, especially Denmark, which we have talked about. Dr Cuibus, you said that a lot of the changes in Denmark predate the toughening of its immigration policies. Could you go into a bit more about that? What wer…”

“Like the whole Home Affairs Committee, I am looking forward to the strategy being published on Thursday. We did a lot of work looking at funding in the violence against women and girls sector. One of the key things we heard was that many frontline organisations struggle to apply for funding year on year, which really h…”

“Q11. Last month, the video games company Rockstar in my constituency fired 31 employees without providing evidence or union representation. The IWGB union alleges union busting. When I met Rockstar, it failed to reassure me that it is following employment law, and I share the concerns about union busting. Given that th…”

“I welcome this significant set of announcements from the Home Secretary and the strong panel members appointed. The Home Secretary will be aware that the Scottish Government have finally announced a review of grooming gangs in Scotland. The chair, Alexis Jay, has said that Scotland does not grasp the scale of child sex…”

“I thank the Minister for her answers and her evidence at the Select Committee last week. It is shocking and deeply concerning that evidence from senior police officers at a Select Committee can fall apart within a week. This was a highly sensitive fixture, and this decision has had a significant impact on the Jewish co…”

“In Scotland, there are approximately four times as many people fleeing oppression from Ukraine and Hong Kong as there are asylum seekers. There has been no public outcry and they have been welcomed. That shows that Scotland is a generous country, willing to play our part if the system is fair and controlled. Moreover, …”

“Are we certain it is over referral? What is the male and female divide, for example?”

“That does not necessarily mean that we are over referring men or male children, it just means they may be exhibiting more concerning signs. We do not know if that is over or under referral from a demographic group.”

“Is it higher now than it was in the aftermath of 9/11 and 7/7? I know the statistics will not be comparable because Prevent was not around then but how do the statistics compare?”

“We heard from previous evidence sessions with the previous Home Secretary and Lord Anderson about the benefits of Channel—how children who were going down the wrong path were supported through that. For some children it ends up being a diversion onto a more positive outcome. You have raised concerns about the negative …”

“Dr Horton, I want to test if I misunderstood what you said. Are you saying that because teachers and educators are very strongly encouraged to be on the lookout for Prevent indicators, that is driving the increase in the statistics? If I am right in saying that, how does it compare to periods when extremism was very hi…”

“Can you walk me through a false positive? Forgive me if I am being dense here, but does false positive mean that someone who had absolutely no extremist inclinations or expressions at all was mis-identified by the system? Or does it mean that someone who does have concerning behaviours but does not meet the threshold t…”

“Around the stigma that we do identify with these children who are referred to Prevent, presumably during the era when Islamic extremism was the top public policy terrorism concern, one would imagine that it would be young men from Muslim backgrounds who felt particularly stigmatised by referrals. Does your research fin…”