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General Committees
Draft Public Order Act 2023 (Interference With Use or Operation of Key National Infrastructure) Regulations 2025 - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

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


Westminster Hall
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

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


Lords Chamber
Victims and Courts Bill
2nd reading - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Justice

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


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

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


Lords Chamber
Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
Committee stage - 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) - 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


Westminster Hall
Local Media - Wed 03 Dec 2025
Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport

Mentions:
1: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) We are almost in a monopoly situation now. - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) Also, on social media, we have had allegations made against asylum seekers that are completely untrue - Speech Link
3: Ian Murray (Lab - Edinburgh South) each of the options put forward in the Government’s consultation on copyright and AI, including the economic - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homelessness: Funding - Tue 02 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Steve Race (Lab - Exeter) urban centre for a very wide geography, Exeter has always had a pull factor for people whose housing situation - Speech Link
2: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) associations together for an emergency meeting, to have a frank conversation about the ludicrous situation - Speech Link
3: Jim McMahon (LAB - Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton) even the artificial market that they are driving with the procurement of dispersal accommodation for asylum - Speech Link
4: Alison McGovern (Lab - Birkenhead) We have a collective duty to resolve that situation in the strategy’s implementation phase.I will conclude - 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


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: None There is the capacity to serve both an ecological and an economic purpose. - Speech Link
2: Lord Weir of Ballyholme (DUP - Life peer) For instance, will they accept that we monitor the situation closely through an equality assessment, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) That is why I seek the clarification.We cannot have a situation where Mauritius can in any way object - Speech Link
4: Lord Morrow (DUP - Life peer) After an exchange, the Minister helpfully clarified the situation further and said:“Before the UK can - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) does not oppose the transfer of asylum seekers. - Speech Link