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Westminster Hall
Digital ID - Mon 08 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley and Ilkley) What exactly is it about stopping the crisis of inflatable dinghies in the channel that requires your - Speech Link
2: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) deport every single illegal migrant that crosses the English channel, but of course he will not. - Speech Link
3: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) Illegal migrants are making long, dangerous crossings over the channel; I hardly think the requirement - Speech Link
4: Rebecca Paul (Con - Reigate) Channel crossings will not be stopped by a QR code on a smartphone. I only wish it were that easy. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum Policy - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) We will also allow our English channel to operate as an open route into this country for anyone who is - Speech Link
2: Chi Onwurah (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West) She is also right to address the pull factors that lure migrants to their deaths in our channel, with - Speech Link
3: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) My own parents were migrants to this country in the late ’60s and ’70s. - Speech Link
4: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester Rusholme) Migrants make immeasurable contributions to our communities. - Speech Link
5: David Smith (Lab - North Northumberland) channel, when they are already safe where they are, is not a moral choice? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Since the election, illegal channel crossings have surged 55%, up to 62,000; new asylum claims have reached - Speech Link
2: James McMurdock (Ind - South Basildon and East Thurrock) What steps she is taking to reduce the cost to the public purse of migrants who have crossed the channel - Speech Link
3: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) One of the major pull factors for illegal migrants crossing the channel is the fact that they can get - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) How many of those who are willing to risk their lives coming over the channel even know about such a - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) The Government have talked about English language provision. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Asylum Seekers: Support and Accommodation - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) More could be made of the fact that people are coming to a pretty appalling end in the English channel - Speech Link
2: Sarah Pochin (RUK - Runcorn and Helsby) Financial assistance to these illegal migrants must stop. - Speech Link
3: Paul Kohler (LD - Wimbledon) Members that undocumented migrants became an issue only with the advent of Brexit. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 13 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) There have been 33,000 channel crossings this year, against 37,000 in the whole of 2024. - Speech Link
2: Lord Paddick (Non-affiliated - Life peer) Amendment 165 is not about undocumented migrants; it is about children who have already been given refugee - Speech Link
3: None Channel in a small boat was offered the choice of seeking asylum in France. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None This means that the public interest in family migrants being financially independent and being able to - Speech Link
2: Lord Sentamu (XB - Life peer) Then we get strangers whose language is not English and whose background is not that of our culture, - Speech Link
3: None There are 1.6 million new migrants to this country who are not in paid work. - Speech Link
4: None We now have a six-month non-renewable visa tied to an employer, leaving the worker undocumented. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Davey (LD - Kingston and Surbiton) undermined the security of our borders by ripping up the returns agreement that allowed us to send migrants - Speech Link
2: Nigel Farage (RUK - Clacton) understand that the country demands that he says to the French President that we will not accept undocumented - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) working with other countries to ensure that we take the measures necessary to stop people crossing the channel - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) grammar school boy from a council estate with a mother whose first language was Irish rather than English - Speech Link
2: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I looked up the definition, and the Oxford English Dictionary defines to “suspect” as to“imagine … on - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) There are many groups out there that provide detailed information to migrants about the law and those - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Illegal migrants enter the UK without going through any checks whatever. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Charlie Dewhirst (Con - Bridlington and The Wolds) she reassure my constituents in Bridlington and The Wolds that there are no plans to house illegal migrants - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) It also creates risk for women and girls, who might receive deliveries late at night from these undocumented - Speech Link
3: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) Does she agree with me that, on average, well over 1,000 people have been crossing the channel each week - Speech Link
4: Lee Anderson (RUK - Ashfield) We know that terrorists and potential terrorists are coming on small boats across the English channel - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) So far, 2025 has been the worst year in history when it comes to illegal immigrants crossing the channel - Speech Link