Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry Immigration inquiry

Witnesses Lord Green of Deddington, Chair, Migration Watch UK, and Phoebe Griffith, Associate Director for Migration, Integration and Communities, Institute for Public Policy Research; Professor Alan Manning, Chair, Migration Advisory Committee, and Madeleine Sumption, Director, Migration Observatory (at 3.00pm).

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Bart Bardz, Branch Secretary for Migrant Workers, GMB, Barbara Drozdowicz, Chief Executive, East European Resource Centre, Mrs Joanna Mludzinska, Chair, Polish Social and Cultural Association, and Tadeusz K Stenzel, Chair of trustees, Federation of Poles in Great Britain; Julia Ebner, Policy Analyst, Quilliam, Professor Matthew Feldman, Centre for Fascist, Anti-Fascist and Post-fascist Studies, Teeside University, and Professor Matthew Goodwin, Senior Visiting Fellow at Chatham House and Professor of Politics, University of Kent (at 3.00pm).

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Fiyaz Mughal, Founder, and Bharath Ganesh, Researcher, Tell MAMA, and Miqdaad Versi, Assistant Secretary General, Muslim Council of Britain; Dr Chris Allen, Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Birmingham, Dr Imran Awan, Associate Professor in Criminology, Birmingham City University, and Murtaza Shaikh, Co-Director, Averroes (at 3.00pm).

Inquiry EU policing and security issues inquiry

Witnesses Professor Elspeth Guild, Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London, Professor Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, University of Cardiff, and Professor Steve Peers, Professor of EU Law and Human Rights Law, University of Essex; David Armond, Deputy Director General, National Crime Agency, and Temporary Deputy Assistant Commissioner Richard Martin, National Police Chiefs’ Council (at 3.30pm).

Inquiry Hate crime and its violent consequences inquiry

Witnesses Nick Antjoule, Hate Crime Manager, Galop, Shane Gorman, Disability Hate Crime Advisor, Leonard Cheshire Disability, and Nick Lowles, Director, Hope Not Hate; Carl Miller, Research Director, Centre for the Analysis of Social Media at Demos, and Dr Pete Burnap, Director, Social Data Science Lab at Cardiff University (at 3.30pm).

Inquiry Sharia councils inquiry

Witnesses Zlakha Ahmed MBE, Chief Executive, Apna Haq, Shaista Gohir OBE, Chair, Muslim Women’s Network UK, Dr Elham Manea, Senior Fellow, European Foundation for Democracy, and Maryam Namazie, Spokesperson, One Law for All; Miranda Fisher, Partner, Charles Russell Speechlys, and Ismet Rawat, President, Association of Muslim Lawyers; Dr Ahmad Al Dubayan, Chairman, and Mizan Abdulrouf, Vice-Chairman, UK Board of Sharia Councils, Dr Amra Bone, Sharia council panellist, Birmingham Central Mosque, and Khola Hasan, Islamic Sharia Council.

Inquiry The work of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

Witnesses Professor Alexis Jay OBE, Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, and Ivor Frank and Drusilla Sharpling CBE, IICSA Panel members; Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office (at 3.45pm).

Inquiry Antisemitism inquiry

Witnesses Tim Farron MP, Leader of the Liberal Democrats; Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, UK Special Envoy for post-Holocaust issues and former Conservative Party Chairman (at 2.45pm).

Inquiry Antisemitism inquiry

Witnesses Ephraim Mirvis, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth; Sir Mick Davis, Chairman, Jewish Leadership Council, and Mark Gardner, Director of Communications, Community Security Trust (at 2.00pm); John Mann MP, Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism (at 2.45pm).

Inquiry Antisemitism inquiry

Witnesses Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader, Labour Party

Inquiry Antisemitism inquiry

Witnesses Jonathan Arkush, President, Board of Deputies of British Jews; Rt Hon Angus Robertson MP, Leader, SNP Westminster Group; Ken Livingstone.

Inquiry Asylum accommodation

Witnesses Councillor David Simmonds, Chairman of the Asylum, Refugee and Migration Task Group, Local Government Association, Gary Christie, Head of Policy and Communications, Scottish Refugee Council, and Susan Munroe, Chief Executive, Freedom from Torture; Rupert Soames, Group Chief Executive, Serco, and Chris Shipman, Chair, Orchard and Shipman (at 3.15pm).

Inquiry The work of the Home Secretary

Witnesses Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Home Secretary, and Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office.

Inquiry The work of the Home Secretary

Witnesses Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Secretary of State, Home Office

Inquiry The work of the Home Secretary

Witnesses Rt Hon Theresa May MP, Home Secretary

Inquiry The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q2 2016) inquiry

Witnesses Robert Goodwill MP, Minister of State for Immigration, and Sarah Rapson, Director General, UK Visas and Immigration Directorate.

Inquiry English-language testing inquiry

Witnesses Ms Nidhin Chand, individual affected by the ELT issue, Asif Khan, individual affected by the ELT issue, and Hermanus Gardner, Managing Director, Blake Hall College.

Inquiry Implications of the UK's exit from the European Union inquiry

Witnesses HE Dan Mihalache, Romanian Ambassador; Mark Sedwill, Permanent Secretary, Home Office (at 3.00pm).

Inquiry Female Genital Mutilation inquiry

Witnesses Karen Bradley MP, Minister for Preventing Abuse, Exploitation and Crime.

Inquiry The work of the Immigration Directorates (Q1 2016) inquiry

Witnesses i) Gregg Brain, and Kathryn Brain; ii) Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP, Minister for Immigration, Mandie Campbell, Director General, Immigration Enforcement Directorate, and Mike Wells, UKVI Chief Operating Officer (at 4.00pm)