Mentions:
1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) If we were to insist on work visas being given only to people who are on average UK earnings, would that - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) we must ensure that our local authorities have the planning expertise and capacity to deal with the applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Meg Hillier (LAB - Hackney South and Shoreditch) It is not always the fault of the planners when there are delays in planning applications, but that is - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (Con - Torbay) one day why a sector is not being invested in and then the next day arguing that we should provide visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (XB - Life peer) I do.What is the government view of CPTPP accession and of the six outstanding applications? - Speech Link
2: Lord Fox (LD - Life peer) It is not 100% clear to me where we are on short-term visas to facilitate that kind of work.The noble - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (Con - Life peer) Further to this, and importantly, we will join CPTPP first, so we will be on the inside, judging other applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Viscount Camrose (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The Government take the view that the going-in position is that those benefiting from visas, rather than - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) There are still thousands of people in Pakistan, many of whom think they will not make it before their visas - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) of money put at its disposal.Since the time of that memorandum of understanding, there have been no applications - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) look to the wider world, and the Government’s measures in relation to making it more difficult to get visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (Lab - Life peer) has meant that funding for bodies such as UKRI lasts only three years and endless bureaucratic grant applications - Speech Link
2: Lord Patel (XB - Life peer) For the UK to succeed, we also need to be open to the rest of the world.The punitive cost of visas and - Speech Link
3: Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con - Life peer) I can use my NHS app and manage my income tax digitally, but I need to visit different websites and applications - Speech Link
4: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) artists—and, indeed, for some of our young scientists, as the noble Lord, Lord Patel, said—makes getting visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Valerie Vaz (Lab - Walsall South) Onshore wind projects have recently stalled, as there are no new applications, so investment is being - Speech Link
2: Barbara Keeley (Lab - Worsley and Eccles South) incalculable.”In a recent interview on LBC, the Culture Secretary implied that sorting out the mess of visas - Speech Link
3: Justin Madders (Lab - Ellesmere Port and Neston) inevitable increase in rough sleeping.In the first six months of 2023, my local council had 6,000 housing applications - Speech Link
4: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s processing of academic technology approval scheme applications - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) through the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and that institution welcomes funding applications - Speech Link
2: Pauline Latham (Con - Mid Derbyshire) housed in Mid Derbyshire under the Homes for Ukraine scheme are worried about their futures, as their visas - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Cryer (Lab - Leyton and Wanstead) During those discussions, have he and others sought any assurances that people in Pakistan who have live applications - Speech Link
2: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) We are trying as best we can in an incredibly difficult environment to respond to the applications and - Speech Link
3: Stella Creasy (LAB - Walthamstow) Family reunion visas would cost more than £20,000. Return to Afghanistan means certain danger. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Cadbury (Lab - Brentford and Isleworth) On appeal, they were granted adult dependent relative visas to join their family here, but before that - Speech Link
5: Johnny Mercer (Con - Plymouth, Moor View) We are dealing with competing pressures here of UK visas and Pakistan visas running out, but I can only - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Houchen of High Leven (Con - Life peer) It is home to 14 and a half million square feet of approved planning applications, which means that if - Speech Link
2: Lord Meston (XB - Excepted Hereditary) to appeal or, as I have experienced, applications to the overstretched Criminal Cases Review Commission.This - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Over the last year—the year ending June 2023—of the 538,887 visas granted for work, 69,421 were for skilled - Speech Link