Speeches by Tapp.

“My understanding is that there will also be community groups engaged. I don’t know whether anyone else can add anything.”

“It will certainly help with targeting. It will not be the only answer—obviously, there is a lot of intelligence stream—but it will help prioritise where we visit.”

“Absolutely. The Home Office has had involvement at official level and ministerial level from the first meeting to the last. There have been regular ministerial meetings on this, where we have discussed the pros and cons.”

“Absolutely, but let us not let perfect get in the way of the good. I imagine that using a digital system is a lot more reliable than having a person who is not trained in assessing passports.”

“No.”

“Do you mean that that the photo was of somebody else?”

“Yes.”

“It is difficult to quantify the exact impact in numbers, but we can say that this will absolutely streamline the process and make it easier for employers to check. Fraud will not accidentally be let through, and it will be much more difficult for those who are seeking to present a dodgy passport to actually do so. I ca…”

“All this depends on the audit store and the decisions made on that, which will not be made until after the consultation, but there is great potential there.”

“That is a good question. There are already fantastic platforms, as you have seen with your passport very recently. The main area will be immigration enforcement for the Home Office and combating illegal working.”

“Mike Tapp, Immigration Minister at the Home Office.”

“Working with the Cabinet Office, we are certainly taking a prominent role in ensuring that we get that absolutely right post consultation and what we learn from it.”

“I take the lessons from the Windrush scandal extremely seriously. I meet the Windrush commissioner on a regular basis to ensure that we fix those wrongs, and that they never, ever happen again. I reject my hon. Friend’s framing. People can apply for a passport, a certificate of entitlement or an emergency travel docume…”

“I thank the right hon. Member for his question about his three constituents. I will let him in on a little secret: perhaps that media coverage is a result of the Home Office’s efforts to get this information out there as widely as we possibly can. There is no intimidation here. This is about a secure border and moderni…”

“We are modernising across the board. I will not make any new announcements in response to this urgent question, but the modernisation of the border includes digitisation, which will impact all of us positively.”

“I thank my hon. Friend for her question; it is important, and well done to her for standing up so well for her constituents. Again, I ask that she drops into my session on Monday—civil servants will be there as well—and we can ensure that the right advice is issued, but at this point that there is information on the Go…”

“I thank the hon. Member for his question. I will ignore the rant about Brexit—we are well past that. Whenever anyone in this House, in the Gallery or at home seeks to travel, the first place they should go is the Government website, to receive travel advice. We do not hold a database of dual-national citizens, so it is…”

“My sympathy goes to my hon. Friend’s constituent. These changes make a more secure border. They mean that we can check whether foreign criminals are coming into the country, and if they are, we can stop them, which makes us all safer.”

“I would urge a meeting on Monday to go through the details of this, rather than trying to break it down in the glare of the public eye.”

“We cannot open ETAs to British citizens for the reasons I explained in my statement. The turnaround time on these applications is good; we are looking at within four weeks and, on average, nine days, but as I have said to many Members, please do bring that specific case to the drop-in.”