Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting) - 27th February 2025

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-02-27/debates/F4A335E5-1B9A-48A7-9D4C-297425FD0BA3/BorderSecurityAsylumandImmigrationBillSecondsitting

14:39 Pete Wishart (SNP)

David Coleman: Yes, or 2.1. That is true, although there is a risk of starting another hare. I suggest that some degree of population ageing and population decline is tolerable, particularly when we are faced with a world whose habitable area is shrinking and productivity is declining, thanks to the inevitable level of global climate change. The last thing we want, it seems to me, anywhere, is population growth. Population stabilisation and population decline, as long as it is modest and eventually comes to an end, is to be welcomed. I have said that with colleagues on a number of occasions.

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