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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) The Migration Advisory Committee has found that Scotland is now less reliant on migrant workers in the - Speech Link
2: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) care will be better or worse due to Government plans to prevent overseas social care workers bringing - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) We know the valuable contribution that foreign care workers make to the sector. - Speech Link
4: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) We are grateful to international workers coming to support us in social care and improving supply, but - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) on under a number of different pieces of legislation, including the Public Order Act 1986, the Anti-Social - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) of new measures to further reduce net migration, including but not limited to stopping overseas care workers - Speech Link
3: David Duguid (Con - Banff and Buchan) occupations where we have a specific shortage from the new minimum salary, for example health and care workers - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) people domestically to be able to take on these roles, rather than saying that we should resort to migrant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) I am also grateful for the help of ILPA, the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium, and RAMP, of - Speech Link
2: None Yet according to the BMA, Rwanda faces a critical shortage of skilled health workers. - Speech Link
3: None That sounds reassuring, but according to the Refugee and Migrant Children’s Consortium it is precisely - Speech Link
4: None services and was accepted by them as a child. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) That typically involves two qualified social workers undertaking a series of interviews with the young - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) Unfortunately, amendments that would have gone further to protect migrant women, who too often still - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) appropriate to refer to my colleagues at the Department of Health and Social Care, and then I will write - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) That right to flexible working would particularly benefit workers with caring responsibilities, most - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The Department of Health and Social Care will respond to the report in due course, and the Health Secretary - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) and funding could be provided.Turning to Amendment 59, some “93% of frontline workers” surveyed for - Speech Link
2: None Some 85% of front-line workers surveyed for Refuge’s local lifeline support said that their services - Speech Link
3: Lord Foulkes of Cumnock (Lab - Life peer) There are similar domestic abuse support workers who specialise in supporting older victims in Sussex - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In evidence, Ms Adams explained how she was told that revealing the biological sex of support workers - Speech Link
5: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bshp - Bishops) The Latin American Women’s Right’s Service and the Step Up Migrant Women campaign found that 62% of migrant - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) the regime.The authorities censor all media, jamming satellite TV channels and filtering and blocking social - Speech Link
2: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) It would not be merely symbolic; it would be about granting the security services and police forces in - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Roya Heshmati was flogged by police for not wearing a hijab in a picture posted on her social media— - Speech Link
4: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) The regime fails to protect women and children from sex trafficking while Iranians and migrant workers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Coastal and Rural Communities: Employment - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Virginia Crosbie (Con - Ynys Môn) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for Education and the Department of Health and Social - Speech Link
2: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) In the seafood processing sector, which relies heavily on migrant labour, up to 92% of the workforce - Speech Link
3: Paul Maynard (Con - Blackpool North and Cleveleys) authorities and other partners in collaboration with jobcentres; expanding access to mental health services - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment Practices - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) social care workers. - Speech Link
2: Amy Callaghan (SNP - East Dunbartonshire) social care workers. - Speech Link
3: Kwasi Kwarteng (Con - Spelthorne) social care workers. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Legal Migration Implementation - Tue 30 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) growth in humanitarian routes like Ukraine, Hong Kong and Afghanistan, as well as growth in health and social - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) they then turn a blind eye to South Africa’s horrendous record of corruption, massacres of its own workers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) A person will get a place in Rwanda irrespective of whether they are an economic migrant or a refugee - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) made by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees when speaking to the BBC last week.Words matter, as the Migrant - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) to adequately screen for trafficking among vulnerable populations and did not refer any victims to services - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This primarily takes the form of detailed standard operating procedures, reviews of contracts for services - Speech Link