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Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) quite distressing that we were having to put our name to that.The United Nations High Commission on Refugees - Speech Link
2: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) not simply what I say or the Joint Committee on Human Rights says; it is the UN High Commission on Refugees - Speech Link
3: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) I am a strong supporter of our long tradition of taking genuine asylum seekers and refugees in the United - Speech Link
4: Baroness Coffey (Con - Life peer) Yes, that was also considering representations made by lawyers and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) the inquiry into the use of immigration detention on which I served, established by the APPGs on refugees - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Refugee Citizenship Rights - Tue 01 Jul 2025
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Brian Leishman (Lab - Alloa and Grangemouth) Refugees should not be reduced to statistics. - Speech Link
2: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Refugees are not criminals because of the way they arrive. - Speech Link
3: Seema Malhotra (LAB - Feltham and Heston) it is through our UK resettlement scheme, the Afghan resettlement programme, our route for Hong Kong - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos Archipelago - Mon 30 Jun 2025
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) which the community has been denied rights, from forced removal in the 1970s to the denial of resettlement - Speech Link
2: Lord Goldsmith (Lab - Life peer) It states simply:“Mauritius will now be free to implement a programme of resettlement on the islands - Speech Link
3: Baroness Ludford (LD - Life peer) The majority support it, especially the Chagos Refugees Group, the largest single group, led by Olivier - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) For the first time since the 1960s, a programme of resettlement can begin on the islands, other than - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base - Tue 03 Jun 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) A one-off token payment of £40 million to assist resettlement and readjustment to an unknown and distant - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) On 22 May, two prominent Chagossian groups—the Chagos Refugees Group and the Chagossian Committee Seychelles—said - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) Notwithstanding what I think is my noble friend’s point about resettlement and the opportunity to return - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
2nd reading - Mon 02 Jun 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) It would assist local authorities in supporting newly recognised refugees. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) Refugees do not want to live on ships or in hotels. - Speech Link
3: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven (XB - Life peer) the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) The figure mentioned by the noble Lord, Lord Macdonald, is 400 million refugees. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) There are other successful resettlement schemes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration - Wed 21 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) specific purposes, such as the Ukrainian scheme, the British national overseas scheme, the UK resettlement - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) In fact, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees sends people to Rwanda, so it is clearly good - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) No, I will not.We believe in expanding safe and legal routes for refugees, including humanitarian travel - Speech Link
4: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) We often forget that Jordan has the highest number of refugees of any country in the world.We welcome - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration System - Thu 15 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None We will review current community sponsorship schemes that support recognised refugees, and we will continue - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) there will be no inadvertent knock-on from the White Paper into our policy on asylum seekers and refugees - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) I hope that I can again reassure the noble Lord that we will continue to operate the resettlement and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Report stage - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Gentleman will know that around the world, there are very many female and child refugees. - Speech Link
2: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) I also chair the all-party parliamentary group on refugees. - Speech Link
3: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) We need a new approach to refugees and asylum. - Speech Link
4: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) Our approach is to resettle refugees identified by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration System - Mon 12 May 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) When she looks at the resettlement and reassurance of existing migrants, will she consider indefinite - Speech Link
2: Tulip Siddiq (Lab - Hampstead and Highgate) More recently, they opened their doors to refugees from Afghanistan and Ukraine. - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) We want refugees to be able to apply for the skilled worker visa in the way that other people are able - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and Victory over Japan - Fri 09 May 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Lemos (Lab - Life peer) on Victoria Embankment, created to thank the British people for sheltering thousands of Belgian refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Rook (Lab - Life peer) World War.At the “Great Faith” exhibition, my noble friend the Minister for Faith, Communities and Resettlement - Speech Link