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Westminster Hall
Human Rights: Consular Services - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) legal guarantee that any British citizen will have the right to assistance from the consulate in the country - Speech Link
2: David Rutley (Con - Macclesfield) We provide tailored information for each country on the local prison and judicial systems for detained - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Henry Smith (Con - Crawley) What recent progress his Department has made on returning illegal migrants to their home country. - Speech Link
2: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) The courts want him returned home. - Speech Link
3: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) United Kingdom to offer humanitarian visas to people caught up in the conflicts in Ukraine, Syria and Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) will not give a running commentary on ongoing litigation, but I can say that we are supporting British nationals - Speech Link
5: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the shadow Home Secretary. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) curative primary and secondary healthcare services that are at least of the standard available to Rwandan nationals - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) Indeed, it is very much felt in the region that gay people are at home there. - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) I ask noble Lords to imagine if someone from Afghanistan who got to this country, who would have qualified - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) in Afghanistan that my noble friend outlined, should be deported. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) In effect, this would be considering a protection claim for a third-country national whose home country - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Ceasefire in Gaza - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) We continue to call for the immediate release of all hostages, including British nationals and their - Speech Link
2: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) We have to pull together in this country. - Speech Link
3: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Both she and I can conclude only that the lack of similar support to refugees first from Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Christian Wakeford (Lab - Bury South) at the kibbutz.I also want to mention events closer to home. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) Many of those fleeing Afghanistan are Hazara. - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, refers to the Home Office. - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) or their home country where it is safe to do so.I reassure noble Lords that the welfare of a family - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) stages (as relevant to their age and needs) that is at least of the standard that is accorded to Rwandan nationals - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) Some of these very brave men and their families and dependants are hiding in Afghanistan, and others - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) in Afghanistan in the face of great personal danger. - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) House when we were voting on the trafficking amendments to the Illegal Migration Bill that only British nationals - Speech Link
4: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) It spoke about how foreign nationals in particular were being gathered together in detention. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) sent to Rwanda, where I may get tortured or killed, then I have a ground, but if I am from Syria or Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Suella Braverman, the then Home Secretary, declined to appear before the Select Committee. - Speech Link
3: None This evidence draws on a wide range of sources in addition to the institutional expertise of the Home - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Under the treaty, judges who are not Rwandan nationals will have to be trained on Rwandan law, not UK - Speech Link
5: None The largest number of asylum seekers who come crossing in small boats come from Afghanistan and Syria - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Deportation of Foreign National Offenders - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant document: e-petition 642364, Deport all foreign and dual nationals imprisoned for a year - Speech Link
2: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) had converted to Christianity, meaning he would have been at risk of persecution if he returned to Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) as of 2022.The Home Secretary and Home Office have a duty to this country to issue deportation orders - Speech Link
4: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality and commit crimes in our country will be caught, they will - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Potential Extension - Tue 06 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) The Ukraine extension scheme allows Ukrainian nationals already in the UK and their immediate family - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) They go to school and do their education in English, and then come home to their home in the UK and study - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Their children are in school, and have settled into the semblance of a life with a home away from home - Speech Link
4: Robert Syms (Con - Poole) It will need to rebuild a substantial part of the country. - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Every single person who comes here, whether they are from Ukraine, Eritrea or Afghanistan, does so for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) China is quite clearly a thuggish country; a bully country that thinks it can step upon anybody. - Speech Link
2: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) The Foreign Office recorded over 500 deaths of UK nationals in Thailand in 2022, some 135 of which were - Speech Link
3: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) Will the Minister help me to persuade the Home Office to relent on this issue? - Speech Link