Mentions:
1: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) us.Over the last few months, we have watched the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) afternoon when, with even fewer Members present than now, John Reid reported that we were sending troops to Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) with all the disaster that would envelop it, we also face a legacy of hatred, which we have seen from Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) an Asylum Partnership Agreement to Strengthen Shared International Commitments on the Protection of Refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) The Supreme Court found, relying heavily on evidence from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link
3: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) certainly have wished to note Rwanda’s 100% rejection rate for asylum claims there by applicants from Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) , rejecting three-quarters of them despite many of the asylum seekers coming from countries such as Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Refugees are often resourceful, entrepreneurial, skilled and resilient. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) at the various schemes over the last number of years: we have welcomed 20,000 people under the two Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) so-called streamlining of applications from six Middle East countries announced on 23 February 2023, namely Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) that there is no real hostility to refugees in this country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) I delivered the Rwanda plan and removed a few refugees.” - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) from Rwanda, which is therefore a country deemed capable of producing refugees. - Speech Link
3: None It matters because refugees are people too. - Speech Link
4: None One guy told me he had been an Afghan interpreter for the British Army in Afghanistan, but we had left - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The 2019 Conservative manifesto said:“We will continue to grant asylum and support to refugees fleeing - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) What we did not hear was whether the SNP wants Scotland to take its fair share of the refugees of the - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) I have met people in Calais who are desperate, poor and confused, and have travelled from Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Afghanistan, which I think was entirely the right thing to do. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Obviously, the ODA budget qualifies to pay for refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Do we not have to make sure that refugees are safe? - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Every country should take its responsibilities towards refugees very seriously. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Gentleman can sit down; he has made his point.Fellow human beings, from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) are fairly protected—this country has always done that—as in the case of Afghanistan, Hong Kong and - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) months the second or third highest number of people arriving here in small boats has been people from Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) If they have come from a hell-hole like Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, why would they not want to take that - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Many of those people are from Afghanistan and Syria, and have an indisputable case for their asylum claim - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) the closing of hotels, and will he also tell us what steps he is taking to speed up the processing of refugees - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) I am not the person who has held up a sign saying, “Refugees welcome”; I am not the person whose colleagues - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) we are continuing to work very collaboratively across Government on the response to the situation in Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) vulnerable people from around the world, working particularly with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) due to the UK abandoning its 0.7% commitment, and almost 30% of what is left being spent on housing refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) On the issue of domestic spending on refugees, we have always acted within the DAC rules and we continue - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) With the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021, and especially the invasion by Putin of Ukraine - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) The largest single element of ODA expenditure covers refugees in this country. - Speech Link