Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) we have offered over half a million people safe and legal routes into the United Kingdom through our Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) Much the largest groups came from Afghanistan, Iran, Eritrea, Sudan and Syria. - Speech Link
3: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) Brooklyn has been invaded by immigrants, and even it is now saying, “Go home, go home”. - Speech Link
4: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (Con - Life peer) The Government have signed an agreement with Albania for removal of their nationals and to strengthen - Speech Link
5: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) I do not think that many of us could live in Syria, Afghanistan or anywhere else on a salary of about - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) certainly have wished to note Rwanda’s 100% rejection rate for asylum claims there by applicants from Afghanistan - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) , rejecting three-quarters of them despite many of the asylum seekers coming from countries such as Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Office has granted refugee status to nationals from Rwanda, as noted by the noble Lords, Lord Coaker - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) There will be those without schooling in their home country, those suffering physical and mental ill-health - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) at the various schemes over the last number of years: we have welcomed 20,000 people under the two Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) so-called streamlining of applications from six Middle East countries announced on 23 February 2023, namely Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) The shadow Home Secretary and the Leader of the Opposition visited Europol recently. - Speech Link
2: None One guy told me he had been an Afghan interpreter for the British Army in Afghanistan, but we had left - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Who governs our country? - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) been a place of safety for about 80,000 from Ukraine; we have opened our arms to some 250,000 British nationals - Speech Link
5: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) I also thank the Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, the right hon. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Gentleman can sit down; he has made his point.Fellow human beings, from Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya - Speech Link
2: William Cash (Con - Stone) has always done that—as in the case of Afghanistan, Hong Kong and so forth. - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) If they have come from a hell-hole like Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, why would they not want to take that - Speech Link
4: None legislation to add India and Georgia to the list of safe countries to which we will be able to return nationals - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Many of those people are from Afghanistan and Syria, and have an indisputable case for their asylum claim - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) I call the shadow Home Secretary. - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) can be removed either to their own country or a safe third country. - Speech Link
3: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) the House on how many were deported last year, and what action he will take to ensure that foreign nationals - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) we are continuing to work very collaboratively across Government on the response to the situation in Afghanistan - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) circumstances, pay home student fees is the final hurdle to getting those women over to Scotland. - Speech Link
2: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) There must be a commitment to helping all those Afghan nationals who risked their lives to assist the - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) He will understand that it is a Home Office scheme, but I am advised that although stage 1 is closed - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Alison Davidian, the country representative for UN Women, characterised Afghanistan as being“in the midst - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) The Answers—and I have looked at them all—have come variously from the Home Office, the MoD and the FCDO - Speech Link
2: Lord Anderson of Swansea (Lab - Life peer) accommodation, to what extent is the failure to provide housing in this country a factor in the long - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) or a third country was around 24,600. - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) They are supposed to arrange, from Peshawar, accommodation for their families in this country, which - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Instead, they will be detained and swiftly removed to a safe third country, or their home country, if - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) They were unlucky enough to be visiting family in Afghanistan with their five children when it fell. - Speech Link
3: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) The rights and liberties of individuals—citizens and foreign nationals, whether here legally or illegally—are - Speech Link
4: Liz Saville Roberts (PC - Dwyfor Meirionnydd) Fifteen Rwandan nationals have been granted protection since 2020, and this Bill excludes Rwandan nationals - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) What work is he doing with Home Office resources to ensure that there is no backlog in ARAP places, and - Speech Link
2: James Heappey (Con - Wells) directly for that country and that verifies the service of those people, unless directly alongside the - Speech Link
3: Nia Griffith (Lab - Llanelli) has the Minister made of the likely impact of his apparent bad faith on the willingness of foreign nationals - Speech Link
4: James Heappey (Con - Wells) We are hugely grateful to local authorities all over the country for how closely they are working with - Speech Link
5: James Heappey (Con - Wells) The offer that the UK has made in comparison with that of every other country, given our size and the - Speech Link