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Lords Chamber
Self-employment: A1 Forms - Mon 12 Feb 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) That includes the training and deployment of more people to process A1 applications. - Speech Link
2: Lord Berkeley of Knighton (XB - Life peer) My Lords, as the singer Rachel Nicholls has documented, the problems over visas for musicians and singers - Speech Link
3: Lord Livermore (Lab - Life peer) , such as moving from paper to digital certificates, or allowing people to use previously completed applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Kamall (Con - Life peer) Lords, the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty, raised the issue of the April deadline and making sure that the applications - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Workers (Economic Affairs Committee Report) - Thu 08 Feb 2024
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) Counterbalancing their departure was the arrival of non-EU workers granted visas under the new immigration - Speech Link
2: Lord de Clifford (XB - Excepted Hereditary) reduction in the number of EU vets coming to work in the UK is due to the increasing burden of applying for visas - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) waiting list quadrupled in two years, and, by last September, over 22,000 people were waiting for their applications - Speech Link
4: Lord Bridges of Headley (Con - Life peer) New immigrants, particularly if they come on work visas”— work visas, not student visas—“may generate - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Homes for Ukraine Scheme: Potential Extension - Tue 06 Feb 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None settled status to enable a stable life in the UK; e-petition 632761, Give Ukrainians on humanitarian visas - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) Pupils like Masha need to plan and apply to universities, but with their visas expiring any time from - Speech Link
3: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) —some of them had visas dated until March 2025—and “My time is running out with my host. - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) on today have welcomed or extended sanctuary to more than 230,000 Ukrainians, and remain open to new applications - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Internationally Recruited Health and Social Care Staff: Employment Practices - Wed 31 Jan 2024
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) That has had a significant impact on the numbers of people coming in on social care visas: there were - Speech Link


Written Statements
Legal Migration Implementation - Tue 30 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) humanitarian routes like Ukraine, Hong Kong and Afghanistan, as well as growth in health and social care visas - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) In the previous 40 years from the refugee convention, there had been only a modest number of applications - 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 Coaker (Lab - Life peer) We believe that the asylum system and process should be speeded up, so that applications are dealt with - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Ukraine - Fri 26 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) of the Homes for Ukraine networks in my diocese reported back to me uncertainty over the future of visas - Speech Link
2: Lord Shinkwin (Con - Life peer) The first visas are due to expire in March 2025. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) Shinkwin, about the issues and the need for more certainty around the current visa scheme, as original visas - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) When it comes to delays in visa applications, or when, as the Foreign Secretary said to me, funds have - 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) It is fair to say that those who have come over on British national overseas visas have made an extraordinary - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Without being as parochial as to mention every one of the 191,000 applications for the BNO visa route - Speech Link
3: 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: Christina Rees (Ind - Neath) Applications are made to the adjudicator, but there is a certain amount of confidentiality involved, - Speech Link
2: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) when it comes to abattoirs—despite the fact that the Government have introduced temporary, short-term visas - 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: None to the point about the EU dimension, the Supreme Court was clear in its judgment about the Rwandan applications - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) limbo, those who came before the Illegal Migration Act 2023 who are still able to have their asylum applications - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) have: the deterrent is if we had a functioning asylum system where we actually returned people whose applications - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) All I am saying is that European countries will not entertain asylum applications from Albania because - Speech Link
5: 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