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Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill - Fri 05 Dec 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) I ask noble Lords to think about what it might be like in such a situation at such an age. - Speech Link
2: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) So, when we see a situation such as this, where a Children’s Commissioner is, in effect, saying, “Be - Speech Link
3: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) It redrafts Clause 13(3), which deals with the situation where the second doctor has said no, he does - Speech Link
4: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) Domestic abuse in the 2021 Act includes coercion, control and economic abuse. - Speech Link
5: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) What we are dealing with here is not that situation. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Public Office (Accountability) Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) It includes physical harm, psychological harm, including distress, and economic loss. - Speech Link
2: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) the Post Office brought huge attention to that scandal and, in fact, led to a major review of the situation - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) events that took place many months ago, when newspaper and other media reports led to a hotel housing asylum - Speech Link
4: Alex Davies-Jones (Lab - Pontypridd) Harm, as we have already discussed, is broadly defined, including economic, physical or psychological - Speech Link
5: None The only situation in which the common law considered frontline healthcare staff to be caught by the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge) to normal, but the truth is that this is not a normal situation. - Speech Link
2: Matt Western (Lab - Warwick and Leamington) So much for economic illiteracy! - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) Its removal is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity. - Speech Link
4: Chris Evans (LAB - Caerphilly) They failed to bring about an economic plan. - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) Unlike the economic engineering we have seen today, economic neoliberalism has been a failed experiment - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum Policy - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) While some are refugees, others are economic migrants seeking to use and abuse our asylum system. - Speech Link
2: Max Wilkinson (LD - Cheltenham) The Minister for Border Security and Asylum has announced to the media that asylum seekers could have - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Asylum accommodation is provided to asylum seekers by British taxpayers, and it is right that if people - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) The reality is that there are a lot of failed asylum seekers within the asylum accommodation system, - Speech Link
5: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) question, that there are 700 Albanian families at the moment who have made asylum claims and whose asylum - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Waste: Organised Crime - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) The Environment Agency’s economic crime unit targets the financial motivation behind offending, and uses - Speech Link
2: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) Over the weekend, the situation has become much more urgent. - Speech Link
3: Chris Hinchliff (Lab - North East Hertfordshire) It is these enemies of our countryside, not asylum seekers escaping hardship and persecution, who are - Speech Link
4: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) The situation is not helped, of course, by the Birmingham bin strikes, which continue. - Speech Link
5: Emma Hardy (Lab - Kingston upon Hull West and Haltemprice) That is why the Environment Agency has launched its economic crime unit, which targets the financial - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) on asylum seekers and refugees. - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Our asylum system is broken. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) record levels; and the numbers in asylum hotels have gone up. - Speech Link
4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) What steps her Department is taking to close asylum hotels. - Speech Link
5: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) , which expedites asylum hearings and supports employment, could reduce asylum costs by 40%. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 13 Nov 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Ireland Troubles Bill.Wednesday 19 November—Consideration of Lords amendments to the Border Security, Asylum - Speech Link
2: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) This sounds like an untenable situation for some of her constituents. - Speech Link
3: Helen Morgan (LD - North Shropshire) The situation is critical. - Speech Link
4: Alan Campbell (Lab - Tynemouth) Lady writes to me, I will look into what has happened in this situation and get an explanation. - Speech Link
5: Martin Rhodes (Lab - Glasgow North) This situation is unfolding against the backdrop of a significant reduction in police presence. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sentencing Bill
2nd reading - Wed 12 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) need careful scrutiny in Committee, but it is an attempt to deal with an appalling and farcical situation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) They purported to do this even when imposing economic austerity, in the form of cuts to living standards - Speech Link
3: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) In addition, increasing use of fixed-term recourse to prison will not improve the situation for victims - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) media posts saw her sentenced to prison for longer than actual rioters who used violence against asylum - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Taxes - Wed 12 Nov 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) That hurts, and it is all on the back of stagnant economic growth. - Speech Link
2: Sam Rushworth (Lab - Bishop Auckland) Look at what they did to the asylum system, which has an enormous backlog. - Speech Link
3: Dan Tomlinson (Lab - Chipping Barnet) , but that is the situation we inherited, and one that we intend to change. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Committee stage - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) It is also in line with the current fixed penalty notices in Scotland and is similar to the situation - Speech Link
2: None There was no quantification on the likely economic impact to businesses trading in these products, no - Speech Link
3: None The economic harm would be real, while the health benefits would be negligible. - Speech Link
4: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) We would be naive to assume the same situation could not happen here in the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) They are often run in plain sight by human trafficking gangs, using illegal asylum seekers to man them - Speech Link