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Lords Chamber
Windrush - Thu 29 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Woolley of Woodford (XB - Life peer) Braverman—not one for much empathy towards people of African descent, Muslims, and those who crossing the channel—did - Speech Link
2: Baroness Burt of Solihull (LD - Life peer) It certainly has not stopped people risking their lives in small boats in the channel—as we saw only - Speech Link
3: Lord Adebowale (XB - Life peer) We all knew that it did not just mean illegal migrants. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The new forms have a Crystal Mark from the Plain English Campaign. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Deportation of Foreign National Offenders - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) Let me start with a quote:“Never in the history of the world have there been so many migrants. - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) choosing to come from safe mainland France and arriving undocumented on the shores of our country. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) He has failed to stop the Tory boats chaos, with 30,000 asylum seekers crossing the channel last year - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Committee stage - Mon 05 Feb 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Russell of Liverpool (XB - Excepted Hereditary) the mirror and recognised that it is not working.The Victims’ Commissioner has to be the most obvious channel - Speech Link
2: Lord Bach (Lab - Life peer) Their concerns are that while the Bill imposes on their English colleagues a duty to collaborate in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Bristol (Bshp - Bishops) to be done to make sure that victims of domestic abuse with no recourse to public funds, or who are undocumented - Speech Link
4: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Initially, they responded to the needs of those with no recourse to public funds—largely, migrants seeking - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bshp - Bishops) In Rwanda you need Kinyarwanda and English. - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LD - Life peer) Court’s function.Sir Winston Churchill championed the ultimate sovereignty of law in his History of the English-Speaking - Speech Link
3: Lord Inglewood (Non-affiliated - Excepted Hereditary) on the other side of the English Channel, and as long as the view from there is that there is a better - Speech Link
4: Lord Hannay of Chiswick (XB - Life peer) across the channel on a scheme to send those migrants, despite the fact that a majority of them are - Speech Link
5: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) enforcement efforts”.So we are now expected to send a woman trafficked by a British gang, who arrived undocumented - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 22 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Of those, 138 were seeking asylum or were undocumented when they were referred to TARA. - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) Currently, there are 11 contingency hotels in the whole of Scotland, housing 600 migrants. - Speech Link
3: Suzanne Webb (CON - Stourbridge) What steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of small boat crossings of the English channel - Speech Link
4: Tom Randall (CON - Gedling) What steps her Department is taking to reduce the number of small boat crossings of the English channel - Speech Link
5: Dan Jarvis (LAB - Barnsley Central) Afghans make up one of the largest cohorts of small boat migrants, in part because the legal routes are - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage- - Wed 26 Apr 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) Then they said they were going to build a giant wave machine in the English channel—I do not know where - Speech Link
2: Natalie Elphicke (CON - Dover) amendment would apply whether or not the country of origin can be identified—for example, if someone is undocumented - Speech Link
3: David Simmonds (CON - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) We cannot allow a situation to continue in which, in the English channel, significant numbers of people - Speech Link
4: Chris Bryant (LAB - Rhondda) Insofar as there is any evidence as to what the pull factors are, they are: that we speak English in - Speech Link
5: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) Thanks to the Human Rights Act, those rulings form part of English law. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Committee of the whole House (day 2) - Tue 28 Mar 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Nigel Evans (CON - Ribble Valley) discussions with the governments and authorities of other countries, including those bordering the English - Speech Link
2: None the purpose of that crime is to enable the illegal entry of a person into the United Kingdom via the English - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (CON - South Holland and The Deepings) A large majority, six in 10, support“stopping migrants in small boats from illegally crossing the Channel - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) United Kingdom, which is surrounded by water, can ever be the first safe country of arrival for an undocumented - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) That speaks also to the legacy of empire, the legacy of the English language and the legacy of Britain - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme: Pathway 3 - Thu 19 Jan 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) These are desperate asylum seekers, not economic migrants; they are people who just want to live and - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (CON - Sutton Coldfield) travelling from Afghanistan is challenging and takes time, particularly for those who are currently undocumented - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Statement of Changes in Immigration Rules - Wed 19 Oct 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) benefited, and simply ask that every effort be made to enable people with good qualifications and good English - Speech Link
2: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) When we think of people coming here—documented or undocumented, but particularly those who have legal - Speech Link
3: Baroness Falkner of Margravine (CB - Life peer) Very briefly, I was also referring to undocumented people who overstay tourist visas and stay on here - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) I am in favour of a transparent framework for asylum seekers and economic migrants of all kinds, which - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (CON - Life peer) policy and legislative changes established, with the intention to influence the decision-making of migrants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Consideration of Lords message - Tue 26 Apr 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) the Labour party is happy to accept the status quo, allow people to risk their life, or die in the English - Speech Link
2: Jonathan Gullis (CON - Stoke-on-Trent North) Does he not agree that those people—illegal economic migrants—leaving France should just be claiming - Speech Link
3: Peter Bone (CON - Wellingborough) Is it the Labour party’s policy that we should not take any migrants to Rwanda? - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) United Kingdom, which is surrounded by water, can ever be the first safe country of arrival for an undocumented - Speech Link