Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) You have a situation where, for example, a protest outside an asylum hotel organised by the Pink Ladies—for - Speech Link
2: Lord Walney (XB - Life peer) But we are in an era when much protest is increasingly organised and designed to cause significant economic - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Non-affiliated - Life peer) bring societal benefit, they are less likely to install such measures, especially in the current economic - Speech Link
2: Lord Hendy (Lab - Life peer) Of course, the situation was highlighted by the multiple stabbings at Huntington on 1 November 2025. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) It contains the same language that the Government brought forward for the Border Security, Asylum and - Speech Link
4: Lord Clement-Jones (LD - Life peer) This is a clear economic issue, not merely a legal one. - Speech Link
5: Viscount Goschen (Con - Excepted Hereditary) If that continues, then I suggest we get ourselves into a very difficult situation indeed. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None The country has been driven into economic ruin, with an 80% drop in its GDP in a decade. - Speech Link
2: None González has been forced to leave the country and claim political asylum in Spain. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Can we now say categorically that we condemn the US economic and diplomatic coercion of a key European - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) This is not a situation where there is no infrastructure on which to hold a democratic process; that - Speech Link
5: Lord Mohammed of Tinsley (LD - Life peer) How can we learn those lessons from Iraq, so we do not leave Venezuela in a far worse situation than - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) The country has been driven into economic ruin, with an 80% drop in its GDP in a decade. - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (Lab - Liverpool Walton) I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s statement on an incredibly complex international situation. - Speech Link
3: Markus Campbell-Savours (Ind - Penrith and Solway) Does not this whole situation, to displace autocracy, demonstrate a need to establish a new consensus - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) What progress her Department has made on closing asylum hotels. - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) This Government will close every asylum hotel. - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) We believe that big military sites are better places to house asylum seekers. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) It is clear that ending the use of hotels for asylum seekers is in the best interests of not only asylum - Speech Link
5: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) asylum system in a generation—certainly in my lifetime. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) It is to do with his views about the situation that would then exist. - Speech Link
2: Lord De Mauley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Across responses, there was a powerful sense of the economic, cultural and emotional loss. - Speech Link
3: None If the Bill proceeds without pause, the court will be asked to rule on a situation that Parliament has - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) I am also grateful to the Minister for her clarification about the legal position on asylum seekers.I - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) The economic note estimates that there could be around 40 charges, but it also acknowledges that that - Speech Link
2: Kerry McCarthy (Lab - Bristol East) We have a number of hotels housing asylum seekers in Bristol, and of course people should have the right - Speech Link
3: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab - Poole) As other Members have said, the country would not grind to a halt, nor would national safety or economic - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) really do ask the Minister to review the detailed wording of the legislation to ensure that that situation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) I beg to move,That this House has considered the potential impact of proposed asylum reforms on people - Speech Link
2: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) cruelty, and I am deeply concerned about their impact on all asylum seekers. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They are more economic migrants—most of them look extremely fit and well. - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We would allow asylum seekers to work after three months. - Speech Link
5: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) reforms on people with protected characteristics seeking asylum. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) In the Act,“‘harm’ includes physical, mental or emotional harm and economic loss”,and“‘criminal conduct - Speech Link
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) There can in those cases be a risk of making a bad situation look worse. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) I am happy to say that that is not the situation any longer. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Levitt (Lab - Life peer) Economic crime is one of the scourges of our society. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) applications succeed, and thus the asylum seeker can become a legal migrant. - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) We need not fear that.As is pointed out in the report, the present situation of constantly getting economic - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) to the UK’s asylum and illegal migration system. - Speech Link