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Commons Chamber
Migration - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) While there is a clear need for the visa system to pay for itself, in some cases the cost of visas stands - Speech Link
2: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) The cost of housing asylum seekers is huge. - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) to settle here permanently, as well as for those who have settlement but want to obtain British citizenship - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Mon 05 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) 2022 was 46% lower than in 2019? - Speech Link
2: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) As far as I understand it, a child adopted by a British family would not automatically have British citizenship - Speech Link
3: Lord Scriven (LDEM - Life peer) age of 18 you are going to be told to go, never come back and never claim British citizenship. - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) British citizen has an automatic route to British citizenship. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 08 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None British overseas territories citizenship as the nationality of all persons connected to the British - Speech Link
2: Baroness McIntosh of Pickering (CON - Life peer) and that the cost must be set having regard to the vital importance of rights to citizenship by registration - Speech Link
3: Lord Hacking (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) process of obtaining British citizenship. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) the fees that may be charged in relation to registration of British citizenship. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) The Home Office confirms that the cost of registration is only £372. - Speech Link
2: Anne McLaughlin (SNP - Glasgow North East) £500 million more than it cost to process applications. - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) to British citizenship. - Speech Link
4: Mohammad Yasin (LAB - Bedford) to British citizenship. - Speech Link
5: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) to British citizenship. - Speech Link
6: Rosie Winterton (LAB - Doncaster Central) to British citizenship. - Speech Link
7: None for applications for registration as a British citizen under the British Nationality Act 1981 or the - Speech Link
8: None for applications for registration as a British citizen under the British Nationality Act 1981 or the - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Nationality and Borders Bill (Fifth sitting)
Committee stage: 5th sitting - Tue 19 Oct 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None the Secretary of State from charging a fee for British citizenship applications by certain British overseas - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) The sum of £1,112 for a child and £1,206 for an adult is a long way beyond the cost—something like £372 - Speech Link
3: None But the Home Office has revealed that the cost of processing is just £372 per application, so two-thirds - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (CON - Corby) respect of applications for British citizenship and British overseas territories citizenship.Before I - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 2nd sitting (Hansard) - Wed 09 Sep 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) their right to British citizenship. - Speech Link
2: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) be perfectly ready to work in the lower-paid parts of the economy, often in competition with British - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (CON - Life peer) If the cost of the administration is £372 according to the Home Office, it seems difficult to understand - Speech Link
4: Lord Rosser (LAB - Life peer) rights under this Bill may be charged a fee for registering for British citizenship over the cost of - Speech Link
5: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) a fee for British citizenship applications to the cost of processing the application for anybody who - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
British Citizenship Fees: Children - Tue 04 Sep 2018
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Those not born here would require multiple applications at a cost of several thousand pounds on top of - Speech Link
2: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) want the British Government to remove the profit element from applications that children make to the - Speech Link
3: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) Of the £1,012 that is charged, £372 is the cost of administration and almost two thirds is profit. - Speech Link
4: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) in requiring a person to pay a fee for citizenship applications. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Article 50 - Wed 29 Mar 2017
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: William Cash (CON - Stone) The referendum was followed by a massive majority of 372 in this House of Commons on the Third Reading - Speech Link
2: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) That would send out the message that we are a welcoming nation and stem the plummeting tide of EU applications - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (CON - South Suffolk) to see it at significantly lower levels? - Speech Link
4: Daniel Zeichner (LAB - Cambridge) will it cost and who will pay for it? - Speech Link
5: Christian Matheson (LAB - City of Chester) , how much they will cost and whether we have the capacity to staff them? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill - Mon 20 Feb 2017
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Evans of Bowes Park (CON - Life peer) unamended with an overwhelming majority of 372. - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (CB - Life peer) drop of nearly 50% in applications from PhD students from EU countries. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Humphreys (LDEM - Life peer) We have no idea of the cost of our new home; we are to be given no survey and no input into the final - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) just three in support—have expressed similar dismay at the loss of European citizenship. - Speech Link
5: Lord Malloch-Brown (CB - Life peer) It has now recovered unity, but at a terrible cost to the country. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education and Research Bill
Committee: 3rd sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Mon 16 Jan 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Storey (LDEM - Life peer) The cost of that runs into hundreds of thousands of pounds. - Speech Link
2: Lord Smith of Finsbury (Non-affiliated - Life peer) To those who would say, “This will cost money”, yes it will cost some money but it would cost far more - Speech Link
3: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) Amendments 367, 369, 370, 372, 373 and 381 provide further specific powers of delegation, enabling the - Speech Link
4: Lord Lucas (CON - Excepted Hereditary) of British education. - Speech Link
5: None If we are to understand the pattern of applications by the segments of society that we wish to help, - Speech Link