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Commons Chamber
Channel Crossings in Small Boats - Wed 02 Sep 2020
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Owen Thompson (SNP - Midlothian) With reports that the UK Government are planning to reduce or scrap their overseas aid budget, will the - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) Work with the overseas aid budget is an important part of that, but so is trade. - Speech Link
3: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) system, such as repeated asylum claims on different grounds, and consider the wisdom of using taxpayers - Speech Link
4: Antony Higginbotham (CON - Burnley) By the time people reach the English channel, be they economic migrants using illegal routes, or asylum - Speech Link
5: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) children and asylum seekers more generally. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Food Supply and Security - Thu 14 May 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Baroness Boycott (CB - Life peer) We must stop spending 98.5% of all the food advertising budget on processed food. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Redfern (CON - Life peer) Taps cannot just be turned off and on. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Janke (LDEM - Life peer) Many food-insecure households resort to using food banks. - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) Will the Government also urgently look again at relaxing work prohibitions on asylum seekers who are - Speech Link
5: Baroness Scott of Needham Market (LDEM - Life peer) making lists, managing portion sizes and using their freezer. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Refugees and Human Rights - Wed 24 Jan 2018
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Desmond Swayne (CON - New Forest West) Of course, Russia and China are also known for using international aid as, effectively, a loss-leader - Speech Link
2: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) It is important to cut off and prevent the process. - Speech Link
3: Alistair Burt (CON - North East Bedfordshire) We are using all our diplomatic tools to call on all parties to protect civilians from harm, to open - Speech Link
4: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) , which is where our aid budget comes in. - Speech Link
5: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) Seekers Support Network, a charity that works tirelessly to support asylum seekers in Leeds and for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Education and Local Services - Tue 27 Jun 2017
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Alex Cunningham (LAB - Stockton North) The North Shore Academy in my constituency faces a spending cut of several hundred thousand pounds. - Speech Link
2: Angus Brendan MacNeil (SNP - Na h-Eileanan an Iar) Member for Stockton North (Alex Cunningham) just said about the North Shore Academy in his constituency - Speech Link
3: David Linden (SNP - Glasgow East) working class are told to blame the benefit claimants, and the benefit claimants are told to blame the asylum - Speech Link
4: Andrew Gwynne (LAB - Denton and Reddish) Sadly, I suspect we will still see nurses using food banks. - Speech Link


General Committees
Schengen and EU-Turkey Co-operation on Migration - Wed 22 Mar 2017
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) Will he put pressure on, or encourage EU foreign affairs institutions to put pressure on, the Turkish - Speech Link
2: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) I will return to that issue in a moment, but finally, may I press him on what he said about using the - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (IND - Ealing Central and Acton) its report, “A Blueprint for Despair”, which was published last month, Amnesty International stated:“Asylum-seekers - Speech Link
4: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) seekers being returned. - Speech Link
5: Robert Goodwill (CON - Scarborough and Whitby) is still in operation for asylum seekers who claimed asylum in an EU country who have family connections - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Homelessness Reduction Bill
2nd reading (Hansard): House of Lords - Fri 24 Feb 2017
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (LAB - Life peer) When the funding was earmarked in George Osborne’s last Budget, all the money allocated to voluntary, - Speech Link
2: Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (LDEM - Life peer) That is an enormous sum of money to shore up a system that is failing. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Butler-Sloss (CB - Life peer) seekers, who have a number of rights. - Speech Link
4: Lord Best (CB - Life peer) With grateful thanks to all the participants and to Crisis, which started the process and saw it through - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Merchant Shipping (Homosexual Conduct) Bill
2nd reading: House of Commons - Fri 20 Jan 2017
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Peter Heaton-Jones (CON - North Devon) Friend’s Bill continues that very welcome process. - Speech Link
2: David Nuttall (CON - Bury North) That could have put people off, so my hon. - Speech Link
3: Alan Mak (CON - Havant) They have taken steps to stop the deportation of asylum seekers who have had to leave a country because - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Queen’s Speech - Mon 23 May 2016
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) That is why we have restructured our aid budget. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (CON - Life peer) That is why we have restructured our aid budget. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Flather (CB - Life peer) The budget has not been signed off for 25 years. Would we accept that from any other institution? - Speech Link
4: Lord Marlesford (CON - Life peer) IS is waging all-out war using every weapon, even if outlawed, including genocide. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
European Union Referendum (Date of Referendum etc.) Regulations 2016 - Wed 02 Mar 2016
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Hain (LAB - Life peer) seekers first arrive—the Greek islands, for instance—to process their applications. - Speech Link
2: Lord Selsdon (CON - Excepted Hereditary) figure; that 50% of all foreign investment in the UK comes from the EU; and that £20 billion of trade - Speech Link
3: Lord Davies of Stamford (LAB - Life peer) Every day the Daily Mail publishes pictures of refugees, asylum seekers or foreigners generally, making - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Humanitarian Crisis in the Mediterranean and Europe - Wed 09 Sep 2015
Department for International Development

Mentions:
1: None [Relevant document: E-petition, entitled Accept more asylum seekers and increase support for refugee - Speech Link
2: Lucy Frazer (CON - South East Cambridgeshire) aid budget to do that. - Speech Link
3: Mims Davies (CON - Mid Sussex) our aid budget to alleviate the suffering. - Speech Link