Speeches by Prinsley.

“No, but do you agree with that?”

“What I am hearing is what I already think, which is that migrants should be issued with a fixed digital ID that allows them to access all services, including proof of right to work. It is the way that this comes and goes for people arriving in this country that is so problematic. We will have a big difficulty in sellin…”

“If the Home Office were to join itself with the NHS, things might improve.”

“I am Peter Prinsley, MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. I am interested in what you just said about the NHS number. Everybody has an NHS number: they are issued with an NHS number when they are born. Anybody who accesses NHS services has an NHS number. So do we not already have a digital ID called the NHS number? W…”

“Do you have an idea of how often this fine of £60,000 is issued? Are thousands of people a year fined £60,000, or is it just an occasional thing?”

“I welcome the Government’s plan to change the law. It was obvious to me and to others that such a change would be needed, and it was one of the matters about which the newly elected doctors spoke to Ministers last year. Imagine, Madam Deputy Speaker, that you have graduated from a medical school, excited at last to be …”

“I think that there will be effects on what people do here, but the political difficulty for the Government is the number of net migrants—how many of them are coming and what routes they are coming by. My impression, from what I am hearing, is that some of these changes, particularly in respect to the families and child…”

“I am listening to this with increasing dismay. Would it be reasonable to say that the proposed changes are likely to disadvantage families with children without having any effect on net migration, or on reducing the number of people trying to get here through what are called illegal routes on small boats? Are we, in fa…”

“But just because they have a tolerance for poor conditions, it does not mean to say that we should be tolerating poor conditions.”

“In a situation that, as Dr Sumption said, is probably going to do nothing about the main political problem, which is that there are desperate people coming across on boats.”

“It feels like changing the rules in the middle of the game.”

“I am worried that we will run out of care workers. We have introduced some changes that are designed to lower the incentives to come to this country, but we might actually end up with not enough people to look after us as we age. Following on from what Margaret Mullane said, there are definitely groups of individuals c…”

“It feels like we are not really going to solve the problem. Dr Sumption, the political problem in the country is that people see these boats coming over, and they see these migrant hotels filling up. Do you think that the changes being proposed are going to affect any of that?”

“Am I correct that we are essentially talking about tied workers? You tie a worker to a low-paid job for 15 years before they are entitled to go for settlement and citizenship, which seems to me an enormously long period of time, especially in a situation where we are very short of care workers. Net migration came down …”

“Good morning. Thank you for coming. I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Before I did this job I was a hospital consultant, so I am interested in what effect this will have on healthcare workers and care workers. Those of us of a certain age whose parents have perhaps been in care are all awa…”

“It’s bots, isn’t it?”

“I am Peter Prinsley, the MP for Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. Thank you for coming this afternoon. I have been listening with growing dismay as you have been speaking—”

“It seems to me that what you probably thought, and I am sure it is right, is that these young Muslim individuals—I think mainly men—come from families where there are almost always very decent mothers. The idea of trying to get the women in the families to address this seriously was something that you took upon yoursel…”

“I agree, and we have some good brains, so we should be able to do it.”

“You spoke earlier about the 1 million antisemitic posts a day. Is that 1 million people posting antisemitic posts, or is it some sort of bot that is producing millions of antisemitic posts that are being distributed across the internet?”