Mentions:
1: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) The other demanding category of cases concerns applications for care orders in respect of newborn babies - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) inquiries to acceptance; only 6% of the initial 125,000 foster care inquiries resulted in successful applications - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) Since 2019, if one takes unaccompanied asylum-seeking children out of the picture, the figure has gone - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Governance Bill, followed by, if necessary, consideration of Lords messages to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
2: Holly Lynch (Lab - Halifax) Does she agree that unless all permits are paused and all applications are considered as part of this - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) hold a Pakistan-issued Afghan citizen card, but there are reports of long delays in the processing of applications - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Dunbartonshire (Martin Docherty-Hughes) has already mentioned, in our report on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) I would not compare Rwanda, which we consider to be a safe country for those who are ineligible for asylum - Speech Link
4: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) It is possible—indeed, likely—that some of the Afghans in Pakistan are those whose ARAP applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) The domestic legislation to implement the new asylum system has been approved by the Cabinet and is now - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) For instance, the Home Office rejected asylum applications from 1,750 Pakistanis in 2023, yet Home Office - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) It is equally staggering that £2 million will be spent per asylum seeker to send them to Rwanda. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) on the taxpayer.While allowing the Home Office to fulfil its statutory obligations towards destitute asylum - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) they live, and how do they continue to exist in this country if the Government will not process their applications - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The asylum system is broken, and we know who broke it. - Speech Link
3: Claudia Webbe (Ind - Leicester East) applications, and to prevent the Government from simply declaring, blanket-fashion, that Rwanda is safe - Speech Link
4: None My third point is connected with my experience of asylum seekers in my constituency. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: David Evennett (Con - Bexleyheath and Crayford) Friend is making to deal with and speed up the asylum process. - Speech Link
2: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) Actually, the Government approve the vast majority of applications, so their approach is a waste of money - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) We have increased the volume of asylum cases processed. - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) behalf to ask if those visas could be extended, but I was told that his parents would have to make new applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) to limit or stop the demonstrations at Nitzana, and to do more to grant visas, as there are some 50 applications - Speech Link
2: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) 2023 the Government published a statement of the legal position in relation to the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) applications because of the Prime Minister’s focus on trying to clear the backlog of legacy cases. - Speech Link
2: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) to clearing the legacy asylum backlog. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, how many of those already denied asylum are still in the country? - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) who make applications here on first application, whereas French courts grant asylum to only 25% of those - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) My Lords, there were 3,412 asylum applications from unaccompanied children in the year ending December - Speech Link