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Commons Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) I am grateful to the Minister for Migration and Citizenship, the Under-Secretary of State for the Home - Speech Link
2: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) That is what it means to be British: to have a moan about the reality of daily life. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) He chose to focus on the cost of living crisis by limiting the cost of school uniforms. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Voaden (LD - South Devon) , which would help to manage the cost of asylum, benefit the UK economy and help asylum seekers to integrate.Evidence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Migration - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) I am grateful to the Father of the House and the hon. - Speech Link
2: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) While there is a clear need for the visa system to pay for itself, in some cases the cost of visas stands - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) , sustainable solution to the problem of the boats. - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) to balance that against the cost of managing the broader immigration system. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) set up to watch over the application by all 192 members of the UN to the Convention on the Rights of - Speech Link
2: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) age of 18 you are going to be told to go, never come back and never claim British citizenship. - Speech Link
3: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (CB - Life peer) Can the Minister give the Committee an account of the British representative’s statement in reply to - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) to tie the hands of the Secretary of State. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None to promote British citizenship as the nationality of all persons connected to the United Kingdom and - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) and that the cost must be set having regard to the vital importance of rights to citizenship by registration - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) the fees that may be charged in relation to registration of British citizenship. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (CON - Crawley) : the denial of their moral rights to British overseas territory citizenship. - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) The cost to the Home Office of the registration process is about £372 a person, but to the person applying - Speech Link
3: Sally-Ann Hart (CON - Hastings and Rye) With regard to seeking to deprive an individual of their British citizenship on the basis that that is - Speech Link
4: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) The inclusion of this clause, which allows the Home Secretary to deprive a person of their British citizenship - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Nationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) to the efforts of the British Overseas Territories Citizenship Campaign, which has campaigned tirelessly - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) A correction, albeit an imperfect one, to the laws of British citizenship that does exactly the same - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) to limit the Secretary of State’s power to charge a fee for applying for British citizenship and British - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) be perfectly ready to work in the lower-paid parts of the economy, often in competition with British - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) the right to British citizenship, particularly the level of the fee, is one that we will return to in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) If the cost of the administration is £372 according to the Home Office, it seems difficult to understand - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) a fee for British citizenship applications to the cost of processing the application for anybody who - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Yet again, when she talked about the cost of the immigration and citizenship service, she seemed to be - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
British Citizenship Fees: Children - Tue 04 Sep 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Gentleman for his intervention—I shall be very happy to champion the cause of British citizenship for - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Registration was put in place to compensate or to fill some of the gaps left by the end of citizenship - Speech Link
3: Sandy Martin (LAB - Ipswich) at least to cover the cost of their doing so. - Speech Link
4: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) want the British Government to remove the profit element from applications that children make to the - Speech Link
5: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) The source of these kids’ right to citizenship is exactly the same as that of our right to citizenship—it - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Article 50 - Wed 29 Mar 2017
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) will of the British people, we will no longer be members of the single market.We are going to make sure - Speech Link
2: Claire Perry (CON - Devizes) and America, would represent a loss of trade of a quarter—a quarter—to the British economy. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the will of the British people? - Speech Link
4: Richard Drax (CON - South Dorset) the will of the British people? - Speech Link
5: Gerald Howarth (CON - Aldershot) the will of the British people? - Speech Link
6: Margaret Beckett (LAB - Derby South) the will of the British people? - Speech Link
7: Rehman Chishti (CON - Gillingham and Rainham) the will of the British people? - Speech Link
8: David Winnick (LAB - Walsall North) Given the reference of some Members to the British people, is it not important to recognise that a large - Speech Link
9: Theresa May (CON - Maidenhead) to the deal that he brought to the British people. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Mon 20 Feb 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) are determined to trigger Article 50 by 31 March to deliver on the decision of the British people. - Speech Link
2: Lord Rooker (LAB - Life peer) It is now the only means of finding out the real costs of leaving the EU to put before the British people - Speech Link
3: Lord Lester of Herne Hill (Non-affiliated - Life peer) the Minister how to deal with this by way of reply.Will the British courts be instructed to follow and - Speech Link
4: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) We have no idea of the cost of our new home; we are to be given no survey and no input into the final - Speech Link
5: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) and to the promotion of a British view of how things are done. - Speech Link