Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Refugees are often resourceful, entrepreneurial, skilled and resilient. - Speech Link
2: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) six Middle East countries announced on 23 February 2023, namely Afghanistan, Eritrea, Libya, Sudan, Syria - Speech Link
3: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) that there is no real hostility to refugees in this country. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) I delivered the Rwanda plan and removed a few refugees.” - Speech Link
2: Gavin Robinson (DUP - Belfast East) from Rwanda, which is therefore a country deemed capable of producing refugees. - Speech Link
3: None It matters because refugees are people too. - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) Ukraine; we have opened our arms to some 250,000 British nationals of Hong Kong descent; we have had the Syria - Speech Link
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: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) We are also seeing people fleeing from Syria and from all sorts of other complex and difficult situations - Speech Link
3: 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
4: Rob Roberts (Ind - Delyn) Government in the UK, it does not carry out large-scale attacks against its own people, as we have seen in Syria - 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
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
Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) How often do we speak about what is going on in Syria or in Yemen? - 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: 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
Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) At the moment, the challenge of the number of refugees is not as significant in Northern Ireland as in - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) The number of vulnerable refugees sent here, of course, is not limited. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) only 228 decisions on asylum claims in 2020, and rejected claims from countries such as Afghanistan, Syria - Speech Link
4: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) we should be proud of the schemes for Hong Kong residents and people from Ukraine, Afghanistan and Syria - Speech Link
5: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) a risk—I would say a vanishingly small one—that failed asylum seekers might be sent back to Iraq or Syria - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) He was her Gazan link in her work with refugees from Gaza. - Speech Link
2: Martin Docherty-Hughes (SNP - West Dunbartonshire) conflicts that have caused instability and forced large numbers of people to flee, be they those in Syria - Speech Link
3: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) Foreign Secretary did that; they suspended arms exports to NATO-allied Turkey following its invasion of Syria - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Caroline Lucas (Green - Brighton, Pavilion) how to reach that outcome, but from Northern Ireland and Colombia to Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon and Syria - Speech Link
2: Kenny MacAskill (Alba - East Lothian) requirement will then be for people to flee—no doubt the US will try to get Egypt to take them in as refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Helic (Con - Life peer) Similarly, the contrast between our warm welcome to Ukrainians and our hostility towards refugees from - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) Perhaps the most apposite on this day, today, is the UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees - Speech Link
3: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) Government for leading debates at the HRC, and for raising issues and tabling resolutions concerning Syria - Speech Link
4: Baroness Swinburne (Con - Life peer) Lady Helic that we have led on resolutions establishing or removing UN accountability mechanisms for Syria - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) campaign to wipe out Rohingya Muslim communities, with more than 25,000 killed and almost 1 million refugees - Speech Link
2: Matthew Offord (Con - Hendon) conflict for hundreds of years and is the basis of proxy conflicts happening right now in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria - Speech Link