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Commons Chamber
Asylum Policy - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) perilous channel crossings, but a roughly equal proportion come legally, via visitor, work or study visas - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) those who arrive illegally on small boats; we are also talking about people who arrive on visitor visas - Speech Link
3: Abtisam Mohamed (Lab - Sheffield Central) Has the Home Secretary assessed the cost to the Home Office of processing thousands of repeated applications - Speech Link
4: Sojan Joseph (Lab - Ashford) of nurses and care workers working in the NHS and care homes who were seeking to extend their work visas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North and Kimberley) our pivot to military sites—was the choice of the previous Government to simply stop assessing applications - Speech Link
2: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) UK Visas and Immigration makes millions of decisions every year about who has permission to visit or - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Overseas Musicians Touring in the UK - Tue 11 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) The ETA applications are assessed on a case-by-case basis, and we are working to examine those issues - Speech Link
2: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) is as frictionless as possible, particularly in areas where individuals can now apply for long-term visas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: None ) the number of overseas students who have been deported following the revocation of their student visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Some 431,725 sponsored study visas were granted in the year ending June 2025. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) Around 435,000 people were granted student visas in the 12 months to June 2025. - Speech Link
4: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) We used that risk information to focus our checks when those students were applying for visas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Non-crime Hate Incidents - Mon 27 Oct 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Strasburger (LD - Life peer) target of the complaint may never know that a hate incident has been logged and that their future applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Black History Month - Thu 23 Oct 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) There is still a significant issue with the refusal of visitor visas for people from countries where - Speech Link
2: Ben Coleman (Lab - Chelsea and Fulham) They are specific, but as I say, I think they have some universal applications. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sentencing Bill
Committee of the whole House - Tue 21 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Caroline Nokes (Con - Romsey and Southampton North) deadlines set out in subsection (2B) of this section.’”This new clause would extend the deadline for applications - Speech Link
2: None information will allow Parliament and the public to see whether our systems for managing migration and visas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Musical Instrument Certificates - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Keeley (Lab - Life peer) the EU, because since Brexit, UK musicians touring the EU have had many extra costs, including for visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay (Con - Life peer) between two options: a cost of £61 for all permits and certificates, or a charge of £200 for all applications - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Richard Foord (LD - Honiton and Sidmouth) In the year ending March 2025, the UK issued 875,000 visas for work, study and family purposes—legal - Speech Link
2: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Clapham and Brixton Hill) Too often those on other visas are conflated with those seeking asylum just to help create a negative - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) It is worth noting that, in 2024, the UK had fewer asylum applications than Germany, France, Italy or - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Secondly, we would process applications swiftly and deport those with no right to stay. - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Music and Dance Schools: Affordable Access - Thu 16 Oct 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Black of Brentwood (Con - Life peer) Last year 123 applications for the BMus course at the RSM came from the MDS schools, resulting in 73 - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fraser of Craigmaddie (Con - Life peer) dancers as critical to economic growth, as they are included in the list of priority professions for visas - Speech Link