Mentions:
1: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) A fleeting search online is enough to reveal images of Cabinet members clutching “Refugees Welcome” signs - Speech Link
2: James McMurdock (Ind - South Basildon and East Thurrock) This is a balanced approach: firm on illegal migration, fair to genuine refugees and responsible to the - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) home to the Ockenden Venture, a trailblazing charity founded in the 1950s that helped to resettle refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) , and 70% of those sponsored refugees have found work within a year. - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) It is designed to be fair to genuine refugees and fair to British citizens. - Speech Link
3: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Without it, public confidence is weakened and genuine refugees lose out. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) If she will take steps to provide Ukrainian refugees with a route to permanent settlement. - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) If she will take steps to provide Ukrainian refugees with a route to permanent settlement. - Speech Link
3: Pippa Heylings (LD - South Cambridgeshire) agree that this is both deeply unfair and a waste of talent and opportunity for young Ukrainian refugees - Speech Link
4: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) There is some scepticism among the public about refugees, but despite the fact that twice as many people - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) by changing the policy and putting integration, not ill will, at the heart of a future system for refugees - Speech Link
2: Peter Swallow (Lab - Bracknell) welcomed Afghans who supported our armed forces in transitional accommodation under the Afghan resettlement - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) as the Home Office, we consider the broader context—such as what he says with regard to Afghan resettlement - Speech Link
4: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Will the Minister look at that case and, more broadly, ensure that genuine refugees do not become victims - Speech Link
5: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) quality, many of these sites—certainly those we brought forward in the past—were good enough for the resettlement - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) fixed-term tenancies where they consider it to be appropriate—for example, to support time-limited resettlement - Speech Link
2: None already facing disadvantage: those fleeing domestic abuse, people in insecure work, care leavers, refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) It is difficult to grasp the scale and ferocity of the Home Secretary’s assault on immigrants, refugees - Speech Link
2: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) The changes will effectively retraumatise so many asylum seekers and refugees who have already experienced - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) various Ministers and the Home Secretary, is that if they are not seen to be hard on asylum seekers, refugees - Speech Link
4: Graham Leadbitter (SNP - Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey) Many Members have talked about the hardships faced by refugees and the impact on their lives, and the - Speech Link
5: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025, where we proposed amendments to lift the ban on refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) At a 30-month review, refugees with a continuing need for protection will have that protection renewed - Speech Link
2: Roger Gale (Con - Herne Bay and Sandwich) They did not come here as asylum seekers; they came as refugees. - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester Rusholme) Instead, the discrimination and constant uncertainty make it harder for young refugees to learn, build - Speech Link
4: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) What progress has the Home Secretary made in establishing safe and legal routes for refugees, so that - Speech Link
5: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) Why are we not dealing with the refugees—processing their applications, giving them training, putting - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Rebecca Long Bailey (Lab - Salford) Retain the five-year route to settlement, end retrospective changes, protect refugees and BNO families - Speech Link
2: Gareth Thomas (LAB - Harrow West) I very much agree, and I add that surely we have a responsibility to stand with refugees fleeing appalling - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) The Liberal Democrats urge the Government to take necessary steps to provide Ukrainian refugees in the - Speech Link
4: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) I will carry on.Between 2015 and 2020, total grants of resettlement were never over 100,000. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) own objectives.I have raised this before: in 2024, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) vital role in delivering essential services such as health and education to millions of Palestinian refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Warinder Juss (Lab - Wolverhampton West) years, the church of St Chad and St Mark in my Wolverhampton West constituency has welcomed Iranian refugees - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (RUK - Romford) remember that nearly a decade ago, on 17 November 2016, I asked a question on the subject of the resettlement - Speech Link