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Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) Instead, it is pursuing a quota scheme that would see immigration rise. - Speech Link
2: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) In order to reverse this worrying trend, last week the EU proposed youth mobility visas, but the Government - Speech Link
3: Eleanor Laing (Con - Epping Forest) Immigration) Act 2024.Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Act 2024 - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Educational Trips and Exchanges - Thu 25 Apr 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) while accurate information on visas—including Schengen visasand discrepancies between the advice to - Speech Link
2: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) needed, but now the complexity of visas and passports has increased markedly. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) to support study and work in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Family Reunion Visas: Gaza - Wed 24 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) At present, there are no plans to create a new immigration route for those affected by the security situation - Speech Link
2: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) My Lords, under the Ukrainian scheme, about 174,000 people came to the UK, and there were extensive categories - Speech Link
3: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) Is the Minister aware that the immigration tribunal judges found the Home Office’s decision on this to - Speech Link
4: Lord Morgan (Lab - Life peer) My Lords, is not the policy of issuing visas being used deliberately to cut back the number of immigrants - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This country is actually very generous: between 2015 and 2023, some 53,574 family reunion visas were - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Partner and Spousal Visas: Minimum Income - Tue 23 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) Family visas have not made up more than 10% of total entry visas for over a decade. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) and the immigration health surcharge. - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) We would like to see devolution in the short term, and full control over the immigration system in the - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We will keep that position under review, as we do with the entirety of our immigration system and the - Speech Link
5: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) thresholds for partner and spousal visas. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
English Horticultural Sector (Horticultural Sector Committee Report) - Fri 19 Apr 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Lord Carter of Coles (Lab - Life peer) It is, I think, the leading supplier of tomatoes to the UK and is world-class and competitive. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) The only published full review of the scheme is of the 2019 pilot, which involved 2,500 visas. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) I should say, not immigration. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) consider how the Illegal Migration Act and removal under existing immigration legislation will apply - Speech Link
2: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) which would have included visas for them, thus enabling them to escape certain death rather than compelling - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) not right for criminal gangs to control our borders and decide who enters the UK. - Speech Link
4: None Act 2023, any earlier Immigration Acts and the other provisions of this Act, the following categories - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Afghan Refugees - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) Since October 2023, the UK has completed a series of about 24 charter flights and relocated over 5,500 - Speech Link
2: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) individuals who could be eligible for support in the UK are currently in limbo and are potentially going - Speech Link
3: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) review, which was set up to look at their cases again, that some of these people are being allowed visas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendmentsLords Handsard - Tue 16 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) The treaty sets out the international legal commitments that the UK and Rwandan Governments have made - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) revisit how the Illegal Migration Act and removal under existing immigration legislation will apply - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) revisit how the Illegal Migration Act and removal under existing immigration legislation will apply - Speech Link
4: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) wrongful refusal of the status that would have awarded visas to these very people, enabling them to - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) to £38,700—and increasing the minimum income requirements for family visas. - Speech Link
2: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) According to projections by Philip Pilkington and Paul Morland, if birth rates do not increase, immigration - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) That remains the Government’s priority, and we are taking action through our immigration policy to reflect - Speech Link
4: James Murray (LAB - Ealing North) to travel after 7 October, and their visas expired. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Gaza - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) It has UK and local medics, and we hope that it will shortly be treating 100 patients every day. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) to do more to grant visas, as there are some 50 applications for visas pending. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) There is also the need for more visas, some 50 of which I mentioned are pending. - Speech Link
4: Andy Slaughter (Lab - Hammersmith) Immigration) Bill, and it published a similar legal position statement when introducing the Northern - Speech Link
5: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) As I mentioned earlier, UK and local medics will be working there and will be treating—fairly shortly - Speech Link