Mentions:
1: 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
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) That is an example of offshore processing: people’s applications were processed in Poland before they - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) and are given a form of leave to remain in the UK are very high: in recent years, the rates at which applications - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Lady explain the fact that France receives more asylum applications than we do but rejects twice as many - Speech Link
5: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) can proceed with the policy of keeping people in hotels, paying them benefits and approving 95% of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) What steps he is taking to reduce the backlog of asylum applications. - Speech Link
2: Clive Betts (Lab - Sheffield South East) The downside of the volume of asylum applications being granted is the pressure that that is putting - Speech Link
3: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) The fact is that we are driving down the numbers of people in the backlog: we are processing applications - 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
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1: Ian Mearns (Lab - Gateshead) Holocaust Memorial Day itself is on 27 January.The Backbench Business Committee would very much welcome applications - Speech Link
2: Rachael Maskell (LAB - York Central) However, we are getting standardised responses from UK Visas and Immigration, in particular. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Daniel Zeichner (Lab - Cambridge) significantly if it is to offset the loss to the research sector that we are seeing as international student applications - 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
Mentions:
1: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) like the threat of expulsions was what got things moving again.Why is it that, after all this time, applications - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) coming to me every single week who are experiencing severe delays and difficulties with family reunion visas - Speech Link
3: Catherine West (Lab - Hornsey and Wood Green) to start deporting people to Afghanistan that the international community restarted the process of applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) Therefore, although the number of applications is fairly static, the number of granted visas will increase - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) and 28 December 2023 showing the number of such decisions that were classified as withdrawn asylum applications - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Free Movement has said:“The heavy use of withdrawals to reduce the number of pending applications does - Speech Link
3: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) For those who have tried to settle in the community but whose applications have still not been processed - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Clearly, any new applications would be considered by that very tough regime in the normal way. - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) If the UK were prepared to offer humanitarian visas to relatives of UK citizens who are in Gaza, it might - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Between January and November this year, we issued decisions on more than 75,000 applications, clearing - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) My Lords, how many visas have been issued to eligible Afghans in Pakistan since the Government’s recent - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) I do not have the number of visas issued but, as of the end of September 2023, the total number of arrivals - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) As of 30 September 2023, there were nearly 7.6 million applications to the scheme, with an estimated - Speech Link
2: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) We are aware that the scheme has faced serious issues, with hundreds of thousands of late applications - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) Clearly, the Home Office is doing a terrific job in driving forward a high volume of applications. - Speech Link