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Commons Chamber
Support for Civilians Fleeing Gaza - Tue 06 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) Almost all of them are multiple internal refugees, who have been forced to flee their homes elsewhere - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Will he join me in urging the neighbouring nations also to step up their efforts to welcome refugees - Speech Link
3: Peter Grant (SNP - Glenrothes) would point out that some of the neighbouring countries are hosting between 1 million and 2 million refugees - Speech Link
4: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Moreover, the issue of resettling Palestinian refugees is, of course, complicated by the right of return - Speech Link
5: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) He has two tiny children and his wife in Gaza. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Potential Extension - Tue 06 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) The Ukraine family scheme allows refugees to join UK-based family members already enjoying the right - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) Many sponsors cannot afford to continue to house the refugees, and many Ukrainian families would like - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Gentleman, has been used massively by women and children. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Give certainty to those children studying, so that their education will not be in vain. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Holocaust Memorial Day - Fri 02 Feb 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) col. 459.]His freedom was indeed fragile, and those remarks cause us to reflect on our treatment of refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Palmer of Childs Hill (LD - Life peer) My late mother and her five brothers were some of the 70,000 refugees from Nazi persecution who came - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Iran: Freedom and Democracy - Thu 01 Feb 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) That is a 30% increase on the previous year, and many of those people were women and children. - Speech Link
2: Bob Blackman (Con - Harrow East) have had the privilege on a number of occasions to visit Ashraf 3, which is home to some 2,700 Iranian refugees - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) democracy.The one thing that has always bothered me when it comes to Iran is its violations against women and children - Speech Link
4: Martyn Day (SNP - Linlithgow and East Falkirk) The regime fails to protect women and children from sex trafficking while Iranians and migrant workers - Speech Link
5: Wayne David (Lab - Caerphilly) It is estimated that at least 20,000 people were detained, including many children. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Household Support Fund - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Selaine Saxby (Con - North Devon) In North Devon, 30% of children live in poverty. - Speech Link
2: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) charitable and voluntary organisations, ranging from some that are relatively new and sprung up to support refugees - Speech Link
3: Munira Wilson (LD - Twickenham) and the lifeline that the household support fund provides to so many children living in poverty. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) They are a small family with two children. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lisa Nandy (Lab - Wigan) but it would be unconscionable if we allowed anything to stand in the way of UK aid reaching those children - Speech Link
2: Judith Cummins (Lab - Bradford South) The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees recently said:“I think the big difference from last - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) Now that the Government have opted to halt funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Every day, malaria kills entirely unnecessarily more than 1,000 children under five and pregnant women - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - Tue 30 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None measures, and the appalling allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It is estimated that 26,000 Palestinians have been killed, 70% of them being women and children. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Blackstone (Lab - Life peer) Israel while it continues to kill thousands of civilians, as we have heard, 70% of whom are women and children - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) measures, and the appalling allegations against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
2: David Lammy (Lab - Tottenham) Twenty-five thousand people are dead, including thousands of women and children, 85% of the population - Speech Link
3: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) What assessment has the Department made of the numbers of Palestinian children who will die as a direct - Speech Link
4: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) the ICJ’s ruling must be implemented in full.UNRWA has done vital work since 1950, and it supports refugees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) This includes over 28,700 refugees, including over 14,000 children, via our formal refugee resettlement - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) Noble Lords no doubt have their own arguments to offer their children and grandchildren, such as the - Speech Link
3: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) , Sir Thomas More replies: “You bid that they be removed, the stranger with their children upon their - Speech Link
4: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (Lab - Life peer) We were pretty much preoccupied with the plight of abducted Ukrainian children being forcibly taken into - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) We are grateful to the Government of Rwanda for hosting these men, women and children”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Instability and war could bring refugees and migrants, huge disruption to trade and energy shortages, - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) We should remember, though, that more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees have found refuge in Europe. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) There have been attempts to recover some of these children. - Speech Link
4: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) How do we support its refugees, as the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, asked? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) We are hearing concerns about increased homelessness among Ukrainian refugees. - Speech Link