Mentions:
1: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the potential impact of changes to worker visas - Speech Link
2: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) By the year ending September 2025, asylum applications from students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar - Speech Link
3: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Including prestigious Chevening scholarships in the Government’s clampdown on certain study visas is - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) alarming truths.Nearly 17,000 micro-companies with five or fewer employees are eligible to sponsor visas - Speech Link
2: Blake Stephenson (Con - Mid Bedfordshire) door to Britain, and we need to close it.Our public sector is dependent on a huge number of worker visas - Speech Link
3: Iqbal Mohamed (Ind - Dewsbury and Batley) Member agree that illegal care companies that are charging to issue visas to people who then come to - Speech Link
4: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) We will drag people into an endless cycle of visa applications and unpredictable fees, sitting alongside - Speech Link
5: Will Forster (LD - Woking) I want to briefly mention student visas. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Edward Morello (LD - West Dorset) The technology has applications in security, energy systems and environmental monitoring. - Speech Link
2: Victoria Collins (LD - Harpenden and Berkhamsted) Claudia Radu, the CEO of Circe, says that we must make sure that talent visas are easier to get. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) As such, from 26 March we will refuse applications for specific visa routes from nationals of Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) Of the 3,730 visas issued to students from Afghanistan, there were 3,454 claims for asylum. - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds Central and Headingley) Many students who applied for such visas and came to study here subsequently found that the situation - Speech Link
4: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) at a time when our European Union counterparts are seeing fewer applications. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab - Life peer) Like me, she would be deeply concerned about the Government’s recent announcement about halting visas - Speech Link
2: Viscount Stansgate (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Only about 10% of UK inventors on patent applications in 2024 were women, and parity is forecast to be - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan present some of the highest proportions of asylum claims to visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) Fees charged by the Home Office for immigration and nationality applications are an essential part of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) refugees who wish to stay in Britain and have skills will be able to apply for new work and study visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Clancarty (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Secondly, there is the concern about travel restrictions, including visas and passports. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) become another Windrush scandal—the loss of funding for organisations to assist people with their applications - Speech Link
3: Baroness Anderson of Stoke-on-Trent (Lab - Life peer) We will work with the national agency to encourage people to sign up when applications open, and we welcome - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Manuela Perteghella (LD - Stratford-on-Avon) Will the Government ensure urgent help through consulates, high commissions and the UK Visas and Immigration - Speech Link
2: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) The turnaround time on these applications is good; we are looking at within four weeks and, on average - Speech Link