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Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
3rd reading - Wed 17 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The 2019 Conservative manifesto said:“We will continue to grant asylum and support to refugees fleeing - Speech Link
2: Danny Kruger (Con - Devizes) What we did not hear was whether the SNP wants Scotland to take its fair share of the refugees of the - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) I have met people in Calais who are desperate, poor and confused, and have travelled from Afghanistan - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rohingya Refugees - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Afghanistan, which I think was entirely the right thing to do. - Speech Link
2: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Obviously, the ODA budget qualifies to pay for refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan and elsewhere. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Do we not have to make sure that refugees are safe? - Speech Link
4: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) Every country should take its responsibilities towards refugees very seriously. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

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) are fairly protected—this country has always done that—as in the case of Afghanistan, Hong Kong and - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) months the second or third highest number of people arriving here in small boats has been people from Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: 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
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


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Andy Carter (Con - Warrington South) the closing of hotels, and will he also tell us what steps he is taking to speed up the processing of refugees - Speech Link
2: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) I am not the person who has held up a sign saying, “Refugees welcome”; I am not the person whose colleagues - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) we are continuing to work very collaboratively across Government on the response to the situation in Afghanistan - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) vulnerable people from around the world, working particularly with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Poverty: International Development Aid - Mon 15 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Londesborough (XB - Excepted Hereditary) due to the UK abandoning its 0.7% commitment, and almost 30% of what is left being spent on housing refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) On the issue of domestic spending on refugees, we have always acted within the DAC rules and we continue - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Northover (LD - Life peer) With the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021, and especially the invasion by Putin of Ukraine - Speech Link
2: Lord Whitty (Lab - Life peer) The largest single element of ODA expenditure covers refugees in this country. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Safe and Legal Routes to the UK - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) This includes those from Hong Kong, Syria, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, as well as family members of refugees.Through - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghanistan: UK Government Policy - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) As the saying goes, we may have lost interest in Afghanistan, but Afghanistan has not lost interest in - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) people who need that safety can get here.I remind Members that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) We must pledge to assist those protecting refugees in Pakistan, and we must show the beleaguered Hazara - Speech Link
4: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) The Afghanistan that the Taliban took control of in 2021 was a world away from the Afghanistan before - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System - Tue 09 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) from Rwanda, but it does not specify who will pay for those refugees. - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (Ind - Islington North) Britain and the other European Governments ought to be thinking about the numbers of people, many from Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Friend has made an important point about, in particular, the issues relating to Afghanistan, where we - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) would like to make some progress because, as Mr Deputy Speaker said, we are quite short of time.To take Afghanistan - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) How often do we debate or even speak about Afghanistan? - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) He described the plight of repatriated refugees:“Some have been executed … When returned, they face torture - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) It is because, in many ways, nobody was looking at Afghanistan at that time. - Speech Link
4: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) We will continue to highlight the practice of the forced repatriation of refugees in the international - Speech Link