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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth Sutton and Devonport) enable us to close the asylum hotels, as well as how we can speed up the processing of asylum applications—something - Speech Link
2: Louise Sandher-Jones (Lab - North East Derbyshire) On recruitment, inflow continues to improve and is up 13% year on year, and applications to join the - Speech Link
3: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) They have no access to work opportunities, and there are no specific visas or agreements with other countries - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) As one can imagine with a world-leading technology, there is a huge array of potential military applications - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Indefinite Leave to Remain - Mon 08 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) We are not here to debate asylum claims, the graduate route, small boats or ancestry visas. - Speech Link
2: Martin Wrigley (LD - Newton Abbot) People on Homes for Ukraine visas have now been here for more than four years. - Speech Link
3: Rachel Blake (LAB - Cities of London and Westminster) Member for that contribution.I want to focus my remarks on those who have BNO visas and particularly - Speech Link
4: Connor Rand (Lab - Altrincham and Sale West) Considering that BNO applicants now make up less than 2% of visa applications, does he agree that the - Speech Link
5: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) By binding visas to a single employer, the system hands unscrupulous bosses extraordinary power. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) and applications made by separated children. - Speech Link
2: None The visas were awarded on the basis of fraudulent claims about the bank statement. - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) The first amendment makes it clear that family migration through spouse and civil partner visas must - Speech Link
4: None Amendment 173 replicates that process for applications further back in the journey. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Wed 03 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) safe countries may be used as a procedural tool to prioritise or accelerate the examination of applications - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) matters.The history of this is that a service standard to decide 98% of straightforward asylum applications - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) amount of money, but if the Minister could tell the Committee what the standard is for asylum applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) hope this will reassure the noble Lord—including access to the courts by judicial review; bail applications - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Borders and Asylum - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Applications have been opened for the reciprocal legal route, with the first cases under consideration - Speech Link
2: None However, in the UK those family applications now come in, on average, around a month after protection - Speech Link
3: None I confirm that the Home Office has put in place systems to issue expedited visas with biometric checks - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Whenever the new scheme comes into effect, we will honour family reunion applications to the date when - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Borders and Asylum - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Applications have been opened for the reciprocal legal route, with the first cases under consideration - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Friend will know, many student visas do not allow students to bring dependants to the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) Not just that, but people who have come to the UK lawfully, but are coming to the end of their visas, - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) colleagues and look for further opportunities for MPs to meet relevant Ministers to discuss existing applications - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) and income and the skills that this country needs in order to ensure we are giving skilled worker visas - Speech Link
3: Johanna Baxter (Lab - Paisley and Renfrewshire South) Those changes forced claimants to use outdated paper forms instead of online applications. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Bills such as this.The report says:“Government data tells us that from 2005 to 2022, the number of visas - Speech Link
2: None that is necessary in some of the regions concerned and sometimes with children—more than half of the visas - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) This visa centre was the base for many Afghans and Iranians to submit their family reunion applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Where biometrics are collected in connection with immigration or nationality applications, the police - Speech Link
5: None the need for physical travel and to collect visas, which is the other aspect he mentioned. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) detail later—that, with the scrapping of the Rwanda scheme, we have been able both to process more applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) question—I dare say it is his officials’ fault, not his—about whether we collect data on students whose visas - Speech Link
3: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) is—but fundamentally unfair to those who follow proper procedures and wait patiently for their applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill
Committee of the whole HouseCommittee of the Whole House - Wed 09 Jul 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) hear about—like other Members, I am sure—is the decisions made on PIP, universal credit and ESA applications - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - East Wiltshire) I am aware that many visas have no recourse to public funds, but people with indefinite leave to remain - Speech Link