Urgent Question on the Border Force
4 September 2013
Minister of State at the Home Office, Mark Harper, responded to an urgent question asked by Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, in the House of Commons on border force policies, following the publication of the National Audit Office report, on Wednesday 4 September 2013
- Watch the Urgent Question on the Border Force on Parliament TV
- Read Commons Hansard: Urgent Question on Border Force
- Read current Parliamentary material in Topics: Asylum, immigration and nationality
- Read the National Audit Office report: The Border Force: securing the border (external site)
Urgent questions
At times MPs may want to put an urgent question to a Minister. If a matter of public importance has arisen, which an MP believes requires an immediate answer from a government minister, they may apply to the Speaker to put forward such a question.
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If the Speaker agrees, the question will be asked after that day’s Question Time.
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Other MPs will then be called to ask further questions on the same subject.
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