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Oral evidence transcripts

Home Affairs Committee

Committee documents that were published online before May 2010 are available by session on the Pre-2010 Publications page.

Total results 402 (page 1 of 21)
1 July 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Caroline O'Connor (Chief Executive Officer at Migrant Help), and Juliet Halstead (Deputy Director of Asylum Services at Migrant Help)
Oral Evidence
17 June 2025
Work Implementation of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Baroness Casey of Blackstock, Sarah Kincaid (Policy Adviser at Home Office), and Neil O’Connor, Senior Adviser to Baroness Casey
Oral Evidence
17 June 2025
Inquiry Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding
Witnesses West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Local Government Association, and Association of Police and Crime Commissioners
Oral Evidence
10 June 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Dame Angela Eagle DBE (Minister for Border Security and Asylum at Home Office), Simon Ridley (Second Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Joanna Rowland CB (Director General, Customer Services at Home Office)
Oral Evidence
3 June 2025
Work The work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)
Witnesses Rt Hon Yvette Cooper (Home Secretary at Home Office), Dame Antonia Romeo DCB (Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Simon Ridley (Second Permanent Secretary at Home Office)
Oral Evidence
13 May 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Steve Lakey (Managing Director at Clearsprings Ready Homes), Claudia Sturt (Prisons and Immigration Director at Serco UK & Europe), and Jason Burt (Group Director of Health Safety & Compliance at Mears Group)
Oral Evidence
6 May 2025
Inquiry Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls: Funding
Witnesses Sarah Fulham (Director of Domestic Abuse at Hestia), Ghadah Alnasseri (Executive Director at Imkaan), Ellie Butt (Head of Policy and Public Affairs at Refuge), and Leyla Buran (Campaigns and Policy Manager at White Ribbon UK)
Oral Evidence
29 April 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Deighton Pierce Glynn, British Red Cross, Refugee Council, Mayor Paul Dennett, Natasha Beresford, Frances McMeeking, and Councillor Peter Mason
Oral Evidence
1 April 2025
Work Implementation of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Tom Crowther KC
Oral Evidence
25 February 2025
Inquiry Summer 2024 disorder
Witnesses Emily Spurrell (Chair at Association of Police and Crime Commissioners), Matt Twist (Assistant Commissioner at Metropolitan Police), Serena Kennedy (Chief Constable at Merseyside Police), Chief Constable BJ Harrington (Public Order Leader at National Police Chiefs' Council), and Rt Hon Dame Diana Johnson DBE MP (Minister for Policing, Fire and Crime Prevention at Home Office)
Oral Evidence
25 March 2025
Work Modern Slavery Act: ten year review (Non-inquiry session)
Witnesses Major Kathy Betteridge (Director for Anti-Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Salvation Army), Caroline Haughey KC, Emma Hawley (Assistant Director at Independent Child Trafficking Guardian Services), Eleanor Lyons, Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, and Baroness Butler-Sloss
Oral Evidence
18 March 2025
Inquiry Asylum accommodation
Witnesses Sachin Savur (Researcher at Institute for Government), Dr Lucy Mort (Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)), Professor Jonathan Darling (Professor in Human Geography at Durham University), and David Bolt, Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration
Oral Evidence
25 February 2025
Inquiry Summer 2024 disorder
Oral Evidence
11 February 2025
Work Pre-appointment hearing: Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration (Pre-appointment hearing)
Witnesses John Tuckett (Government’s preferred candidate for the role of Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration)
Oral Evidence
4 February 2025
Work The work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)
Witnesses Sir Matthew Rycroft KCMG CBE (Permanent Secretary at Home Office), and Simon Ridley (Second Permanent Secretary at Home Office)
Oral Evidence
21 January 2025
Work Implementation of Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (Non-inquiry session)
Oral Evidence
17 December 2024
Work The work of the Home Office (Regular evidence sessions)
Witnesses Home Office, Home Office, and Home Office
Oral Evidence
10 December 2024
Inquiry Summer 2024 disorder
Witnesses Lauren Poultney (Chief Constable at South Yorkshire Police), Mark Webster (Chief Constable at Cleveland Police), Chris Noble (Chief Constable at Staffordshire Police), and Judi Heaton (Chief Constable at Humberside Police)
Oral Evidence
1 May 2024
Inquiry Fire and Rescue Service
Witnesses Dr Sabrina Cohen-Hatton (Chief Fire Officer, West Sussex Fire and Rescue Service and Chair of Improvement Committee at National Fire Chiefs Council)
Oral Evidence
16 September 2020
Inquiry Channel crossings, migration and asylum-seeking routes through the EU
Witnesses Beth Gardiner-Smith (Chief Executive Officer at Safe Passage UK), and Maddy Allen (Advocacy Manager at Help Refugees)
Oral Evidence
Total results 402 (page 1 of 21)