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Lords Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Wed 13 Mar 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None prepared to make use of the powers provided under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to restrict visas - Speech Link
2: None On pre-trial detention, the Lady Chief Justice has confirmed that if bail applications are made to the - Speech Link
3: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) attend court.Other developments in hand include the rolling out of a national scheme to consider bail applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Prisons and Probation: Foreign National Offenders - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) prepared to make use of the powers provided under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to restrict visas - Speech Link


Written Statements
Foreign National Offenders, Prisons and Probation - Mon 11 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Alex Chalk (Con - Cheltenham) prepared to make use of the powers provided under the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 to restrict visas - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Higher Education - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Department for Education

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) that somehow attracting overseas students to universities in this country is squeezing out domestic applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Vaizey of Didcot (Con - Life peer) If you want to study for a master’s degree overseas, you apply for three or four different visas in different - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Population Growth - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) coming in as the families of non-PhD or research-based students, changing the minimum income for family visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) there are now 5.6 million people in this country on out-of-work benefits and an alarming 4,000 new applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Steven Bonnar (SNP - Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill) The introduction of short-term visas not only failed to address worker shortages in agricultural and - Speech Link
2: Paul Howell (Con - Sedgefield) Also, is there enough capacity to process the applications as the number of applications increases?” - Speech Link
3: Robbie Moore (Con - Keighley) We have received more than 11,000 applications for SFI alone since last autumn. - Speech Link
4: Thérèse Coffey (Con - Suffolk Coastal) I want to understand whether we have breached the number of visas that had been set aside. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) overseas care workers bringing family dependants, increasing the salary threshold for skilled worker visas - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) seekers stuck in limbo, unable to be processed due to the Prime Minister’s legislative fiasco; 250 visas - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Ukrainian refugees here in the UK will be able to extend their visas. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) approach would make a mockery of our legal migration system and people playing by the rules, lodging applications - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 21 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) whether any discussions have taken place with colleagues at the Home Office about providing emergency visas - Speech Link
2: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) GP surgeries promised in planning applications take far too long to be built. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration Rules and Border Security - Tue 20 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) There will continue to be an in-country opportunity for people to apply to extend their visas. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) There is a bitter irony in the UK Government making changes to health and social care visas—a sector - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Every Member of this House will have experienced the problems supporting the initial applications: there - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We think this is an appropriate approach to extending the visas. - Speech Link


Written Statements
Changes in Immigration Rules - Mon 19 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) We are also today reducing the length of new visas issued under the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme - Speech Link