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13 July 2026

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Combined Home Office oral and topical questions covering domestic abuse and homicide, asylum accommodation and small boats, violence against women and girls, political safety, organised retail crime, animal testing regulation, police welfare, anti-social behaviour, online harms, and tighter migration and visa rules using new security powers.

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Home Office questions — crime, migration and policing

34:48

Home Office oral questions — crime, migration and regulation

34:48

Opening of Home Office Questions and domestic abuse focus

34:48

Opening of Home Office questions and domestic abuse

34:48

Speaker’s tribute to Ann Widdecombe and opening of Home Office questions

34:48

Q1–2: Domestic abuse suicides, male victims and justice delays

37:13

Asylum accommodation, small boats deterrence and migration security

40:53

Asylum hotels, alternative sites and small boats deterrence

40:53

Q3: Ending asylum hotels and community impacts

40:53

Asylum deterrence, small boats and accommodation contracts

43:54

Refugees, work visas and settlement policy

01:02:41

Q6 & 16: Ukrainian refugees — temporary protection, extensions and public support for safe routes

01:02:41

Q11: Seasonal Worker visas 2027 — horticulture planning concerns

01:10:16

Q12: BN(O) settlement route — success metrics and CCP-linked risks

01:11:36

Topical: Foiled extremist terror plot and ILR qualifying period policy

01:17:53

Shadow vs Home Secretary: ILR increase and alleged U-turn

01:20:05

Violence against women and girls, political safety and public order

46:21

Violence against women and girls strategy and political safety

46:21

Q4: Violence against women and girls — Sussex rape outcomes and abuse of immigration status

46:21

VAWG strategy, political safety and sentencing concerns — cross-government response

50:20

Organised retail crime, enforcement powers and animal testing regulation

52:50

High Streets Organised Crime Unit and enforcement powers

52:50

High Streets Organised Crime Unit — national crackdown launch and funding

52:50

High street crime in coastal and market towns — NCA‑led support and trafficking case

56:56

Rogue vape shops, online illegality and closure powers

01:00:36

Animal testing licences and replacement strategy

01:06:02

Q8: Animal testing licences and phase-out strategy

01:06:02

Home Office topical questions — policing, migration rules and security powers

01:07:24

Home Office questions — policing, crime and asylum

01:07:24

Police welfare, mental health and staffing levels

01:07:24

Q10: Police mental health, PTSD data and trauma-informed misconduct

01:07:24

Q13: Police officer numbers, regionalisation and funding reform

01:14:24

Home Office topical questions — crime, asylum sites and security threats

01:19:16

Topical policing and online harms — ASB, phone theft, X platform

01:19:16

Asylum accommodation in communities — HMOs, RAF Barnham and alcohol rules

01:25:13

National Security State Threats Act and small boats absconding data

01:28:40

Home Office questions — policing, migration and security

01:30:26

Police Federation governance, migration law and legal cooperation

01:30:26

Police Federation leadership pay and representation reform

01:30:26

ECHR Article 8 abuse and family visa policy reform

01:31:17

Mutual legal assistance and the Hannah Byrne case

01:33:02

Home Office questions — crime, migration and security

01:33:57

Rural crime, asylum misinformation protests and Blackpool hotel legacy

01:33:57

Topical: IRGC designation enforcement under National Security Act

01:36:33

Seasonal Worker visas — scampi and nephrops sector

01:37:37

Asylum accommodation sites and closing the Claddon Hotel

01:38:29

Domestic governance — local government reform and Commons timetable

01:40:45

Local government reorganisation — ministerial statement and scrutiny

01:40:45

Local government reorganisation — ministerial statement and scrutiny

01:40:45

Government statement and opposition challenge on reorganisation

01:40:45

Urgent Question: Government statement on local government reorganisation

01:40:45

Opposition challenge: mandate, elections and transparency on LGR

01:42:25

National stakeholder concerns, resources and democratic legitimacy

01:46:33

Select Committee and LGA concerns: capacity and frontline services

01:46:33

Liberal Democrat critique and devolution vs Whitehall ‘diktat’

01:48:34

Devolution powers and demands for referendums

01:50:10

Local government reorganisation Q&A — mandate, models and timing

01:53:03

Cambridgeshire options, announcement timing and leak allegations

01:53:03

Service disruption risks, Warwickshire models and MP briefings

01:54:18

Growth objectives, new PM politics and local identity

01:57:22

Multiple restructures, town representation and coastal regeneration

01:59:24

Local government reorganisation — mandate, rumours and timing before Thursday’s statement

02:03:38

Commons business statement and recess timetable

02:16:05

Commons business statement and recess dates

02:16:05

Revised Commons business, key bills and recess

02:16:05

Business statement — rescheduling key bills before recess

02:16:05

Scheduling concerns — Representation of the Peoples Bill and focus of Hillsborough debate

02:21:45

Call to sit next week and confirmation of recess dates

02:23:23

Home Secretary statements — counter‑terrorism and MPs’ security

02:24:24

Home Secretary statement — counter‑terrorism investigation

02:24:24

Home Secretary statement and CT investigation

02:24:24

Home Secretary statement and frontbench response

02:24:24

Speaker’s guidance on Ann Widdecombe case and Home Secretary’s statement

02:24:24

Shadow Home Secretary: tribute, anti‑speculation and security review

02:30:14

Home Secretary: CT investigation update and security for ex‑MPs

02:35:14

Tributes to Ann Widdecombe and CT policing response

02:50:46

Reform UK tribute and CT investigation transparency

02:50:46

Florence Eshalomi: CT policing resources and online misinformation

03:01:06

Home Secretary statement — safety of elected representatives

02:38:25

Home Secretary statement — MP safety and security framework

02:38:25

Online abuse, MP safety and extremism policy

02:38:25

Online abuse, MP safety and equal security treatment

02:38:25

Toxic political climate, algorithms and Prevent review

02:47:02

Constituency security and MPs’ home privacy

02:55:04

MP constituency security — beyond fobs and alarms

02:55:04

Julian Lewis: address privacy and media exposure risks

02:57:20

Online harms, misinformation and MPs’ security

03:03:48

Online hostility, misinformation and protection of campaigners

03:03:48

Iain Duncan Smith: tribute and call to regulate online hatred

03:03:48

Campaigner and councillor safety — Representation of the People Bill

03:08:19

Speculation, misinformation and media exposure of MPs’ homes

03:10:55

Home Secretary Q&A — MPs’ security and online harms

03:14:44

Bernard Jenkin: MPs’ violent death risk and home security

03:14:44

Encouraging public service despite threats and timeline for online harms response

03:18:21

Al Carns: algorithms, foreign influence and online safety

03:21:44

Tributes to Ann Widdecombe and online abuse accountability

03:25:32

Mark Francois: tribute, social media hate and resilience

03:25:32

Suella Braverman: media commentary, online abuse and restraint

03:28:20

Mark Pritchard: tech platform regulation and Widdecombe’s public service

03:32:26

Security of elected representatives and RAVEC role

03:35:58

MP and councillor security — schemes, risks and RAVEC role

03:35:58

Liz Saville Roberts: Operation Bridger, devolved schemes and constituency access

03:35:58

Reform UK MPs’ security and RAVEC independence

03:38:18

Councillor safety, Operation Ford and wider democratic protection

03:41:07

Environment Minister — climate, nature and adaptation Q&A

03:47:45

Environment Minister — nature, climate and adaptation

03:47:45

Environment Minister statement — nature, climate and adaptation

03:47:45

Government strategy — nature and climate crisis

03:47:45

Ministerial statement — State of Nature and Climate 2026

03:47:45

Shadow Minister critique — planning, peat burning and SFI funding

03:56:29

Adaptation strategy, farming support and 30x30

04:03:47

Environmental Audit Chair — adaptation plan and farming partnership

04:03:47

Liberal Democrat response — farmers, reservoirs and planning deregulation

04:06:44

Private finance for nature and 30x30 delivery via Natural England

04:10:23

Climate Q&A — rivers, oil fields, waste and local impacts

04:13:57

Citizen river action, new oil fields and marine protection

04:13:57

Waste incineration strategy, urban wildfires and climate‑resilient planning

04:17:37

Constituency climate impacts, schools and tree planting

04:22:34

Local nature recovery, funding leverage and youth‑focused climate action

04:25:55

Local nature recovery strategies and funding leverage

04:25:55

Cross‑government alignment, youth accountability and security risks

04:29:30

Children, schools, global biodiversity COPs and water resilience

04:31:41

Heat adaptation, pollution enforcement, peatlands and closing of climate statement

04:35:24

Urban heat, river pollution enforcement and farming resilience

04:35:24

City‑wide adaptation, peatland protection and youth education

04:38:24

From climate statement close to Immigration and Asylum Bill introduction

04:43:06

Second Reading opening — government case and Bill framework

04:43:51

Second Reading — bill rationale and front‑bench clash

04:43:51

Home Secretary — bill context and appeals reforms

04:43:51

Home Secretary — context, humanitarian framing and wider immigration reforms

04:43:51

Immigration and Asylum Bill — inherited chaos, enforcement and accommodation

04:43:51

Humanitarian case on small boats and pivot to safe, legal routes

04:48:44

ILR reforms, backbench pressure and separation from the Bill

04:57:39

Appeals system overhaul — new Authority and core protection

05:02:26

Appeals backlog, non‑judicial adjudicators and independence of new Authority

05:02:26

Appeals reform and core protection model

05:09:20

Government vs Opposition front benches — ECHR, removals and asylum policy

05:14:39

Home Secretary — ECHR constraints and modern slavery reforms

05:14:39

Article 8 ECHR, family life and foreign criminal deportation

05:14:39

Home Secretary — modern slavery reform and asylum repayment principle

05:22:40

Shadow Home Secretary — removals, asylum flows and legal routes

05:28:41

Shadow Home Secretary — reasoned amendment and critique of small boats and FNO removals

05:28:41

Shadow Home Secretary — opposition to expanded safe and legal routes

05:34:02

Shadow: ILR extension, emergency deportation law and abuse of appeals

05:38:12

Opposition front benches — ECHR, human rights and overall Bill critique

05:47:05

Shadow: argument to leave ECHR and move reasoned amendment

05:47:05

Labour backbencher: Windrush warning and critique of ‘burden’ rhetoric

05:54:44

Liberal Democrat spokesperson: human rights, Brexit pull factors and asylum repayment

05:59:33

Asylum Bill mechanisms — appeals, routes and modern slavery

06:09:17

Asylum pressures, safe routes and appeals reform

06:09:17

Backbench MPs — asylum pressures, safe routes and human trafficking safeguards

06:09:17

Labour backbencher: balanced migration, dispersal fairness and Shabir Ahmed

06:09:17

Conservative backbencher: ECHR reforms, French cooperation and modern slavery concerns

06:16:22

Appeals authority, backlogs and serious offender deportation

06:24:06

Justice Committee member: critique of new Independent Immigration Appeals Authority

06:24:06

Alberto Costa: BBC case of people smuggler asylum seeker

06:27:05

Rochdale grooming gang ringleader — new deportation powers and Article 8

06:30:09

Bill overview, appeals system and modern slavery clauses

06:33:15

Overall evaluation of the Bill — opposition critique and Labour support

06:33:15

Tim Farron: new appeals body, Article 8 data and asylum repayment

06:33:15

Falkirk MP: hotel use, Labour asylum record and case for backing the Bill

06:37:34

Modern slavery provisions — import controls and victim protection

06:40:38

Gavin Williamson: modern slavery supply chains and import controls

06:40:38

Modern slavery campaigner MP: safeguarding victims and fixing NRM practice

06:43:34

Asylum Bill closing debate and votes

06:46:13

Opposition and backbench critique of Asylum Bill

06:46:13

Opposition parties and Labour left — systemic critique of asylum Bill

06:46:13

Opposition parties: structural concerns and political context

06:46:13

Plaid Cymru: reasoned amendment and devolution concerns

06:46:13

Labour backbencher and SNP: social contract, Article 8 and far‑right context

06:49:07

Labour and left critique of asylum reforms

06:55:02

Backbench support for the Bill: control, contribution and safe routes

06:55:02

Nadia Whittome: attacks on non‑judicial appeals body and alternative reforms

07:00:26

Backbench debate on ECHR, asylum costs and rights

06:58:29

Conservative/Reform right: ECHR, Article 8 and asylum costs

06:58:29

Conservative MP: Article 8 abuse and call to leave ECHR

06:58:29

Suella Braverman/Reform: ECHR blamed for blocking Bill provisions

07:02:56

Asylum support cost recovery vs outsourcing contracts and ECHR blame

07:07:10

Bill’s overall direction — humanitarian critique vs support

07:10:58

Green critique: family separation, ‘tax on poverty’ and lack of safe routes

07:10:58

Labour backbencher: support for Bill and appeals reform

07:14:07

Jeremy Corbyn: humanitarian critique and Afghan resettlement amendment

07:17:08

Conservative backbencher: asylum cost recovery and Article 8 tightening

07:20:15

Backbench legal and human rights criticisms of the Bill

07:22:47

Labour lawyer MP and Sarah Smith: evidence-based challenge to lay adjudicators

07:22:47

Stella Creasy: cost and complexity of core protection and ILR debt

07:27:03

Left-wing MP: second-class citizenship, £10k asylum debt and child fees

07:29:53

John McDonnell: opposition to trafficking reforms and electoral calculus

07:32:55

Backbench concerns on Article 8 children’s cases and migrant NHS workers

07:35:42

Managed migration, asylum cost recovery and local accommodation concerns

07:37:43

Balanced migration stance and support for asylum cost recovery

07:37:43

Community sponsorship vs large‑site asylum accommodation at RAF Barnham

07:40:18

Immigration Bill votes and carbon adjournment

07:42:12

Immigration and Asylum Bill — closing speeches and Second Reading

07:42:12

Final speeches — Opposition critique and Government defence of Bill

07:42:12

Opposition closing — case for stronger Bill and reasoned amendment

07:42:12

Minister’s closing — inherited chaos, new appeals body and ECHR stance

07:49:08

Immigration and Asylum Bill — minister’s closing, divisions and Second Reading

07:55:34

Minister’s closing — asylum support repayment, modern slavery and safe routes

07:55:34

Immigration and Asylum Bill — division on Opposition reasoned amendment

07:59:39

Immigration and Asylum Bill — Second Reading carried and programme agreed

08:15:55

House business, petition and carbon debate

08:27:09

Procedural business and public petition

08:27:09

Block approval of statutory instruments 5–15 and deferred divisions on trade union SIs

08:27:09

Public petition — Bromley road safety policy

08:29:16

Adjournment debate — embodied carbon in buildings

08:30:52

Adjournment debate opened — embodied carbon in buildings

08:30:52

Whole-life carbon, local planning rules and regulatory gap

08:35:18

Industry proposals, Part Z campaign and call for national leadership

08:40:21

Minister’s response — embodied carbon and Future Homes Standard

08:44:47

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House of Commons

13 July 2026

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 Actual start 14:00 House of Commons

34:47 - 36:14

Speaker 1

Colleagues, before we begin today, I'd like to pay tribute to Ann Widdecombe, who died in tragic, deeply troubling circumstances last week. Ann was a formidable politician, a prominent figure in public life. She was a Member of Parliament for Maidstone for 27 years, holding a number of ministerial posts in the 90s. Ann was fierce and enjoyed robust political debate.

Whether you agreed with her or not, she was principled, spoke her mind and was true to her beliefs, which were informed by her Christian faith. Anne was a close friend to David Amess, who was murdered in 2021, and both were fellow animal lovers. In light of the ongoing police investigation, I would urge members to take care not to say anything in this House that might prejudice a future trial. I will set out more on that advice of the Home Secretary's statement later. For now, we are thinking of Anne.

But just on a personal level, Casa Pizza in Lambeth, in Kennington, is where I spent a lot of time in the evening sharing a pizza with the one and only Anne Widdecombe. She was a friend in many ways, politically we may not agree, but she was without doubt a courageous, principled politician and all of our thoughts with family and her friends.

36:14 - 36:18

Speaker 2

Order, order, we now come to questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Lorraine Beavers.

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