Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) There are more deportations than before; there are more hotel closures; there are fewer asylum applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Most e-visas are accessible within minutes of a grant; in a small number of cases, they will take up - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury (LD - Life peer) ask His Majesty’s Government what plans they have to change their policy on temporary skilled worker visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) A large number of people, including nationals of EU member states, do not require visas if coming for - Speech Link
3: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I shall ask about another class of skilled and creative workers in need of temporary visas—namely - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) , dependant visas, and family reunification, settlement and naturalisation applications. - Speech Link
2: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) or naturalisation applications. - Speech Link
3: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) Whether for work visas, study visas or family routes, it is all down.Those real figures do not seem to - Speech Link
4: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South and Mid Down) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) well covered the issues around seasonal visas and visas in agriculture - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) new clause would amend the Immigration Act 2014 to waive the fee for indefinite leave to remain applications - Speech Link
2: Nusrat Ghani (Con - Sussex Weald) new clause would amend the Immigration Act 2014 to waive the fee for indefinite leave to remain applications - Speech Link
3: None completing four years of service—service personnel who, under the current system, are usually denied visas - Speech Link
4: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) that the Ministry of Defence does not even collate the information regarding the number of ILR applications - Speech Link
5: Scott Arthur (Lab - Edinburgh South West) which seeks to amend the Immigration Act 2014 to waive the fee for indefinite leave to remain applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Foster of Bath (LD - Life peer) new Immigration Rules, which means their salaries fall below the new minimum for skilled workers’ visas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Cash (Con - Life peer) is not stopping the boats, which has clearly failed, but managing the system that processes the applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Paula Barker (Lab - Liverpool Wavertree) Firing off job applications one after the other without success, it is easy to lose hope. - Speech Link
2: George Freeman (Con - Mid Norfolk) ability to grow disease-resistant and drought-resistant crops—the potato that typically requires 14 applications - Speech Link
3: Dawn Butler (Lab - Brent East) “Aim to permit” means that councils are often powerless to refuse applications for betting shops, even - Speech Link
4: Cameron Thomas (LD - Tewkesbury) He spoke of the additional costs of work visas since freedom of movement was surrendered, of temporary - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Strasburger (LD - Life peer) us he is so proud.Touring, the backbone of income for many musicians and performers, now involves visas - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (Con - Life peer) Planning applications should be granted only if there is capacity for the waste and sewage to be disposed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The UK Visas and Immigration service has a comprehensive training programme kept under regular review - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) In 2025, 448,241 entry clearance applications were received and only 18,434 were refused, which is about - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) It is in nobody’s interest to have fraudulent applications or for individuals to use a different route - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) That is why we have accepted over 448,000 people, but it also why we have rejected 18,000 applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) The Government say that trial applications received rose by 9% between January and November last year - Speech Link
2: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) hearing that it would cost an American researcher £18,000 to come with a spouse and one child, to get visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) This could push more families towards dangerous journeys, given that 90% of refugee family reunion visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) Family reunion applications were paused from September last year. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) was 95%, while applications by students from Myanmar soared sixteenfold over the same period. - Speech Link