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

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) It is helping the UK with its illegal immigration and, in return, getting a significant chunk of development - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) imagine how vulnerable people feel when they discover that, for example, universities are offering visas - Speech Link
3: Lord Blackwell (Con - Life peer) So, if you accept that the UK should have immigration controls to limit the number of people who settle - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) immigration and undermine the stability of the Rutte Government.The UK Government should clearly and - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This is explicit in the Bill and will always be the case, reflecting that immigration policy is a UK-wide - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Hong Kong - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Layla Moran (LD - Oxford West and Abingdon) However, for those who are already here, their children are not allowed to come here on BNO visas in - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) in the UK, and is subject to UK corporate and other laws, is withholding money from its rightful pensioners - Speech Link
3: Paul Scully (Con - Sutton and Cheam) we lead on this, as the UK Government and UK parliamentarians with a special responsibility and duty - Speech Link
4: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) To date we have granted more than 184,000 visas, and that door remains open.We suspended the UK-Hong - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Groceries Supply Code of Practice - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) However, the UK Government are making decisions and saying that they apply across the whole UK. - Speech Link
2: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) UK in general, and bad for UK food security. - Speech Link
3: Mark Spencer (Con - Sherwood) It now receives responses from over 2,000 suppliers from the UK and abroad. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Care Home Staffing - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Pitkeathley (Lab - Life peer) annual salary required for employees applying for a visa, banning them from bringing dependants to the UK - Speech Link
2: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) The Government are of course entitled to make it harder to get visas, but they should be upfront and - Speech Link
3: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) On the question from the noble Baroness, Lady Pitkeathley, about visas for carers, one issue that has - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) The Immigration Acts are listed in section 61(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007, as amended.Clause 3 stand - Speech Link
2: Robert Neill (Con - Bromley and Chislehurst) However, the fact was that UK Ministers took the decision, and they did what was right in the UK, which - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) establish full control of our borders is the point at which we add an asylum visa to all the other types of visas - Speech Link
4: None We look forward instead to the day that we are no longer beholden to this insular and damaging UK immigration - 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: None Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
3: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Since 2015 we have issued more than half a million visas on humanitarian grounds, more than at any time - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) into the UK, and there were 124 convictions. - Speech Link
5: William Cash (Con - Stone) this illegal immigration law manifestly is.In the UK, we have a dualist system of law in which the sovereignty - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) that each of the nations of the UK has varying immigration needs, reflected in the varied shortage occupation - Speech Link
2: Stephen Crabb (Con - Preseli Pembrokeshire) UK to study, but does my right hon. - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) UK are here to study and add value, and that no institution in our higher education sector mistakes - Speech Link
4: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) UKHospitality estimates that 95% of skilled worker visas that were gained last year would be lost under - Speech Link
5: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) come legally and safely to the UK by what the Government have published so far? - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Immigration Act 2014 (Residential Accommodation) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2023 Draft Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Mon 15 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) effect on the ability of non-UK nationals and UK nationals who do not have a passport—perhaps they cannot - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Users can contact the UK Visas and Immigration resolution centre, which provides telephone and email - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) comparisons and other civil penalty schemes operated in the UK. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) (Asylum and Immigration) Bill (day two).Thursday 18 January—Debate on a motion on the loan charge, followed - Speech Link
2: Lucy Powell (LAB - Manchester Central) a former Immigration Minister is taking to the airwaves to say that their Rwanda plan will not work—and - Speech Link
3: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) almost half that of the UK as a whole. - Speech Link
4: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) However, we are getting standardised responses from UK Visas and Immigration, in particular. - Speech Link
5: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) national debt is £37,730 for every man, woman and child in the UK. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Jan 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) A fair immigration policy is absolutely part of an open Britain. - Speech Link
2: Andrew Griffith (Con - Arundel and South Downs) She will know about the global talent visa, which has seen a 76% rise in visas issued over the last year - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) on the economy, immigration or the NHS, he has failed? - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) This is a person who described all immigration law as “racist”. - Speech Link