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Westminster Hall
Family Visas: Income Requirement - Mon 20 Jan 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) The rules are stopping the economic growth that we need. - Speech Link
2: Tom Gordon (LD - Harrogate and Knaresborough) Friend agree that we need to ensure that the system that works for everyone and gives back to the people - Speech Link
3: Katie Lam (Con - Weald of Kent) of the public who have requested that we debate this topic. - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) That is a separate matter from the one we are discussing. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Christmas Adjournment - Tue 20 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Surely we should be proud of the fact that we have the universal service obligation Royal Mail that can - Speech Link
2: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) Gurkhas who retired from the British military before 1997 do not receive the same pensions as other British - Speech Link
3: Andy Carter (CON - Warrington South) that we have made in the last 12 months in Warrington South and at some of the things that we have still - Speech Link
4: Richard Foord (LDEM - Tiverton and Honiton) I ask the Government to ensure that we see work begin on the school in the next 18 months, given that - Speech Link
5: Jessica Morden (LAB - Newport East) those facing hardship in the communities that we represent in the UK, and we know that this will be - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Balfe (CON - Life peer) How are we going to get the people into the country we need to be here to do the jobs that are necessary - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) She asked that we look through the eyes of those affected so that we do not create rules that will in - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) Judging from the support that we have seen for the RNLI, that view is widely shared.I hope that the Minister - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) with the treaties that we have signed. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) If we look at the figures, we see that the unfairness is extremely stark—even to the former Home Secretary - Speech Link
2: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) We know that the courts ruled, the Government appealed, and the courts ruled again that these fees are - Speech Link
3: Steve Brine (CON - Winchester) Is it any wonder that we receive some of the communications that we do? - Speech Link
4: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) now that we have left the European Union. - Speech Link
5: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) We say that we should not go down that path—a path that the Irish have just rejected as utterly failed - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Gurkha Pensions - Mon 22 Nov 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) process that has the confidence of the Gurkhas? - Speech Link
2: Maria Miller (CON - Basingstoke) Fairness in pensions and in the way we treat Gurkhas at the end of their military career has been central - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) It is one thing to compare pensions alongside each other, but we are not comparing the fact that Gurkhas - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) For the purpose of this debate, we need to be clear that since 2007 Gurkhas have served on the same basis - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
Committee stageCommittee of the Whole House - Wed 23 Jun 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) We are confident that local authorities will bear that in mind in the way they afford provision in the - Speech Link
2: None While ensuring that we have the personnel we need to keep our country and the world safe, we must protect - Speech Link
3: None up—we see the wounds that they face—but we do not see the battles that people face in the mind when - Speech Link
4: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) That does not mean, however, that we all share the same optimism about the Bill. - Speech Link
5: Christian Wakeford (LAB - Bury South) Can the Minister tell me what we can do to ensure that veterans receive the support that they need, no - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Armed Forces Bill
2nd reading - Mon 08 Feb 2021
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: John Healey (LAB - Wentworth and Dearne) We share that aim, and we welcome the order that will follow this debate to extend the present Armed - Speech Link
2: Kevan Jones (LAB - North Durham) Friend agree that it is a bit strange that the weakened version that we have now has none of the proposals - Speech Link
3: John Healey (LAB - Wentworth and Dearne) That is the lesson of the experience of the past decade and more—that is the challenge we must meet. - Speech Link
4: Sarah Jones (LAB - Croydon Central) That is why we suggest that the Bill should set measurable national standards that would end the postcode - Speech Link
5: Ben Wallace (CON - Wyre and Preston North) , but if we accept that there is such a concept, where we draw the line has to balance the needs of the - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Windrush - Wed 02 May 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) policy that she instituted and demonstrates that that is the case, we should all understand that the - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) I would say to him that it is not the language that we need to change—although that would help—but the - Speech Link
3: Kirstene Hair (CON - Angus) Only then can we show the Windrush generation that we are sorry, that they are valued, and that we are - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (CON - Aldershot) Just as we are hugely proud of the distinguished conduct and contribution that the Gurkhas make, we would - Speech Link
5: Laura Pidcock (LAB - North West Durham) We might think, from the way some people talk in the press, that we have open borders, and we hear the - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Minors Entering the UK: 1948 to 1971 - Mon 30 Apr 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) The answer is that we can find that voice among the public officials or the outsiders who say, “Please - Speech Link
2: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) But we are not talking about that generation; we are talking about the generation of the Sam Kings, the - Speech Link
3: Emma Reynolds (LAB - Wolverhampton North East) We know that the Home Secretary resigned last night, but in my view that is not the end of the matter - Speech Link
4: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) That is the failing that we have to put right. - Speech Link
5: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) right that we get the compensation scheme right from the outset. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Scheduling of Parliamentary Business - Mon 17 Jul 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (CON - Gainsborough) Surely, through the usual channels, we can ensure that, despite the fact that we have a two-year rather - Speech Link
2: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) The Leader of the House has said quite categorically that she believes that the debate we are having - Speech Link
3: George Howarth (LAB - Knowsley) the Government will object to such changes in the way that we function on the grounds that the House - Speech Link
4: Kelly Tolhurst (CON - Rochester and Strood) They are concerned that we should debate the issues properly and that we get the right legislation through - Speech Link
5: Grahame Morris (LAB - Easington) We need to demand of the Government—this needs to come not only from the Opposition, but from Back Benchers—that - Speech Link