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Commons Chamber
Windrush Compensation Scheme (Expenditure) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 10 Feb 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Diane Abbott (LAB - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) from people seeking the necessary documentation to establish their legality —8,000 applications for - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Given the significance of these applications to the people making them, as we heard from my hon. - Speech Link
3: Helen Hayes (LAB - Dulwich and West Norwood) Finally, it has been estimated that over half a million people have been given wrong official advice on naturalisation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 1st sitting - Tue 07 Jan 2020
Department for Exiting the European Union

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (CON - North East Cambridgeshire) The Bill gives five different applications for that power. Three relate to the glosses. - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) that has developed on the watch of successive Conservative Home Secretaries negligently conflating naturalisation - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) I note that some may have made several applications. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
EU Settlement Scheme: Looked-after Children and Care Leavers - Tue 03 Sep 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Steve McCabe (LAB - Birmingham, Selly Oak) However, at this point, the trust has not made any applications and it was not entirely clear about how - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) were withdrawn, or were void or invalid; and no applications have been refused. - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We must make sure that applicants have all the help they need to fill in those applications. - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) other Immigration Ministers have done, which is to conflate the issue with migration fees or the adult naturalisation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality - Tue 23 Jul 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) the problem came about when the Government began blurring the distinction between registration and naturalisation - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) that the Home Office has lost its grasp of, and become confused by, the different types of nationality applications - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) the remedial order, the Joint Committee on Human Rights recommended that those who had citizenship applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Families of Commonwealth Soldiers - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) His wife and stepdaughter applied for naturalisation in September 2017, but there is no decision yet. - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) absolutely right about the effect on people.As I was saying, my constituent’s wife and daughter applied for naturalisation - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) Without going into specifics, I accept that applications involving families can involve a variety of - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill (Tenth sitting)
Committee Debate: 10th sitting: House of Commons - Tue 05 Mar 2019
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Applications for settled status documents would then be the means to simply evidence those rights, just - Speech Link
2: None Lifting the time limit for applications for settled status, as suggested in new clause 33, is very much - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) Members for new clause 33, which seeks to remove any deadline for applications under that scheme. - Speech Link
4: Afzal Khan (LAB - Manchester, Gorton) The Home Office makes a profit of up to 800% on immigration applications from families, many of whom - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Citizenship and Civic Engagement (Select Committee Report) - Mon 19 Nov 2018
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Greaves (LDEM - Life peer) councillors who originally got involved with major residents’ campaigns objecting to inappropriate planning applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Russell of Liverpool (CB - Excepted Hereditary) attempts to try to defend what is frankly indefensible.At the moment, fee waivers are available only for applications - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) “good character” requirement for children from the age of only 10, which originally applied only to applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) surprising: Parliament did not provide for an express power to set a fee for nationality and immigration applications - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Bill
Committee: 4th sitting (Hansard): House of Lords - Wed 14 Nov 2018
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) When making such applications, dual nationals are required to provide the Home Office with details of - 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) It seems the Home Office is conflating registration with the naturalisation of adults who choose to make - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) However, should two other applications be processed at the expense of a child’s application? - Speech Link
3: Caroline Nokes (CON - Romsey and Southampton North) We are willing to work with other public bodies to help make those applications as easy as we can. - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) the Home Office is going wrong in trying to conflate citizenship with the immigration rules and the naturalisation - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Windrush: 70th Anniversary - Thu 14 Jun 2018
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) We see it week in, week out in our surgeries—for example, in the applications that take so long to be - Speech Link
2: Dawn Butler (LAB - Brent Central) cases will be expedited, what new pathways will need to be created and whether the cost of fast-tracked naturalisation—it - Speech Link