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Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) to make sure that people have the right to stay and the right to work. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Requiring biometrics to be provided before a person travels to the UK also reduces the need for Border - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) of money to come to the UK illegally, there will be criminal gangs ready to take the money and get them - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) that they were children, for them to be sent back to the UK, in effect as parcels. - Speech Link
5: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) There will be strict security checks, open only to those who have not tried to enter the UK illegally - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd Sitting - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) It feels to me like the Bill focuses on disruption and the interdiction of routes for entering the country - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) the direction of travel in the UK and around the world is to take away officers from the border and to - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) My issue is that they have travelled through a great many countries to make it to the UK. - Speech Link
4: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) It is reasonable for the Government to take the view that citizenship should not be given to certain - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) that it is not necessary for victims of modern slavery to remain in the UK for the purposes of co-operating - Speech Link
2: None Lady’s analogy of the lover-boy model—a woman trafficked from abroad into the UK to be raped by men for - Speech Link
3: None The underlying attempt throughout the Bill is to make the UK unattractive. - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) Nowhere in the Conservative manifesto was there a commitment to take the UK out of these conventions, - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) make the UK a less attractive place to seek sanctuary, but it is not working. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) We recognise the need to take urgent action and will look at all available options for looking at reducing - Speech Link
2: None to workThe Secretary of State must make regulations providing that adults applying for asylum in the - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LDEM - Life peer) The article also made the point that:“The UK stands out internationally for its reluctance to let asylum - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) UK, at vast expense to the taxpayer, waiting for a decision. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Verdirame (Non-affiliated - Life peer) It would be a very unattractive position for any party to these treaties to take the view that they are - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) removal of a person from the UK and the person came to the UK as a child, then such removal could take - Speech Link
3: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) to make dangerous journeys because there are very limited options for safe routes to the UK. - Speech Link
4: None referred to the NRM within three months of entering the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Mon 04 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None schemes compromised and making the UK even more attractive for those wishing to make unmeritorious asylum - Speech Link
2: None the other place but with an intention to remove references to adults who might want to come to the UK - Speech Link
3: Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood (CB - Life Peer (judicial)) to make asylum seeking in the UK as unattractive as one can, to deter and discourage as many prospective - Speech Link
4: None people applying for asylum in the UK, and their adult dependants to take up employment, are on terms - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) agreed to take away the call for it to include a practising dentist. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Chelmsford (Bishops - Bishops) for a critic of, for example, the Putin regime, to reach the UK in safety. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) from those individuals who wish to make the UK their home”. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) to make a paid application for settlement in the UK on discharge, as long as they have served a minimum - Speech Link
4: Baroness D'Souza (CB - Life peer) seek refuge in the UK for some time to come. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 02 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) already take greater asylum responsibility than the UK to accept people from the UK and agree to relieve - Speech Link
2: None a transferee who is available for return to the UK to do so, should the UK be legally obliged to facilitate - Speech Link
3: None This new Clause would make provision for leave to enter or remain in the UK to be granted to the family - Speech Link
4: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) who need to come to the UK. - Speech Link
5: None people in Europe, to be admitted to the UK for the purposes of seeking asylum where they have a close - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Mon 28 Feb 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (GRN - Life peer) We have to take action. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) My Lords, I do not want to take the time of the House other than to say, with thanks for the letter, - Speech Link
3: None stay in the UK, for which they do not have to wait five years. - Speech Link
4: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) the channel, Clause 11 would make Ukrainian refugees who made it to Poland and then flew to the UK second-class - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 17 May 2021
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Greenhalgh (CON - Life peer) areas and make it illegal for large UK companies to use key agricultural commodities cultivated on illegally - Speech Link
2: Lord Oates (LDEM - Life peer) by a civil society coalition with cross-party support, which asks the UK to take responsibility for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Worthington (CB - Life peer) I support the Government in all the efforts they take to make this a reality. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Browning (CON - Life peer) The Government are to be commended for their action, as well as for the initiative in the gracious Speech - Speech Link
5: Baroness Randerson (LDEM - Life peer) the need for more measures to encourage the take-up of EVs. - Speech Link