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: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) They are not classed as refugees, because they are here temporarily on that scheme. - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I absolutely agree about the contribution that migrants and refugees make to our country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cashman (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In relation to the HJ (Iran) Supreme Court judgment, the hard-won legal rights for LGBTQI+ refugees are - Speech Link
2: None It will needlessly segregate refugees and British citizens, in the end damaging community cohesion. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Refugees are often compelled to flee with nothing but the clothes on their backs. - Speech Link
4: None Airlines do not allow refugees to board safe planes directly from their country of persecution. - Speech Link
5: None For those who are not refugees, the offence is untouched. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Genuine refugees are mixed with those who exploit the system, and the public rightly question whether - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) Previously, the most common reason for a safeguarding incident raised was homelessness.Young refugees - Speech Link
3: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) I am not quite sure how that relates to child refugees. - Speech Link
4: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) The UK operates global safe and legal routes for refugees, including the UK resettlement scheme in partnership - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) The treaty we have entered allows Mauritius to develop a programme of resettlement on the islands other - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) That was in 2015.The Government of the day decided not to proceed with resettlement because of costs, - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Indeed, the chairman of the Chagos Refugees Group, Olivier Bancoult—parts of whose statement was read - Speech Link
4: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) The treaty claims to allow a programme of resettlement on some of the outer islands but not on Diego - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) I would gently say that both sites have been used recently for the Afghan resettlement scheme, so there - Speech Link
2: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) security checks, to people from countries that mean they are almost certain to be recognised as refugees - Speech Link
3: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) Whether it is regarding Syrian refugees, Homes for Ukraine, the Afghan resettlement scheme, or British - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) Some of that money was previously used to prevent conflict and to help refugees find refuge in their - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I respect what he has to say, but I point him to remarks from the Chagos Refugees Group, which said in - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) Of course, Mauritius will be able to develop a programme of resettlement on the islands other than Diego - Speech Link
3: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) I am sympathetic to the concerns put forward about resettlement. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) We have to take our fair share of refugees. - Speech Link
2: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) Refugees must not be scapegoated. - Speech Link
3: Ashley Fox (Con - Bridgwater) in hotels and temporary accommodation, we need to change the way we deal with refugees. - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We should recognise the value that refugees have given to our country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) arrivals, few of whom will ever return home.The state’s right to exclude asylum seekers and some refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) We cannot decriminalise all illegal migration so that we may feel virtuous when discussing refugees. - Speech Link
3: None This would narrow the UK’s current interpretation of Article 31, preventing refugees who travelled to - Speech Link
4: Lord Katz (Lab - Life peer) That is not, as I say, the intention of this Government’s policy towards asylum seekers, refugees and - Speech Link
5: None We are talking here about people who are subsequently accepted as refugees. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None We must also acknowledge that resettlement numbers have fallen to record low levels. - Speech Link
2: None This would risk reducing our capacity to assist the most vulnerable refugees. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) The UK could say that all refugees are the responsibility of France. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Don’t you care about refugees?” - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) Refugee and asylum-seeking children and those on resettlement schemes may be among the most disadvantaged - Speech Link
2: None admission of children in the asylum process with refugee status or on humanitarian protection and resettlement - Speech Link
3: None Clause 55 will therefore already enable local authorities to initiate a direction for children of refugees - Speech Link