Speeches by Tapp.

“Yes.”

“Absolutely—the Home Office support that a digital ID will need to be used for right to work checks.”

“It was a concern that was raised in meetings, and now we have come to a conclusion that suits everybody—all Departments—including the Home Office. It will be positive for the country when we get this into place.”

“No.”

“It is our responsibility, so yes.”

“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.”

“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.”

“These were concerns that were part of the conversations that were had, and have fed into—”

“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.”

“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…”

“Okay. If you do not mind, I will take that away and have a look at that individual case.”

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

“We are saying that digital ID checks will be mandatory when someone is moving work, but it does not have to be the digital ID that we are producing. That is a more secure process and, from the Home Office’s perspective, it means that we can counter fraud at that level.”

“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 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…”

“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 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…”

“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.”