Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott says the Prime Minister and the Government believes the Rwanda scheme will make a difference to illegal migration and she dismisses suggestions Rishi Sunak had doubts over the scheme when he was chancellor.
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00:00 I am doing his old job as CST and I know that the Treasury, it's our job to question everything
00:07 that comes through for value for money. I have no doubt that that's what he was doing.
00:12 But judge the Prime Minister by his actions. He has introduced the strongest ever illegal
00:17 immigration legislation into the House. We hope it will pass through. That will make
00:22 a significant difference to the number of people coming over here illegally. We believe,
00:27 the government believes, the Prime Minister absolutely believes that this will make a
00:30 significant difference. And if you look at what we've done with deterrence and return
00:35 schemes previously, so many people at home might not know, but we've got an agreement
00:39 with Albania, which is a relatively new agreement. It's a similar kind of principle, which is
00:43 that you get returned to your country of origin, which is Albania in this case, if you come
00:49 from there. And that's seen a drop in the number of people coming from Albania by 90%.
00:54 So we know this works. And so it's really important that we get it through the House
00:58 and get it operational.