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Lords Chamber
Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) immigrants coming by extremely dangerous means into the United Kingdom.As the noble and learned Lord - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) In contrast, some 25,000 illegal immigrants arrived in small boats last year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) France, Italy and Germany face the same problem. - Speech Link


Deposited Papers
Home Office

Feb. 22 2010

Source Page: Protecting our border, protecting the public: the UK Border Agency’s five year strategy for enforcing our immigration rules and addressing immigration and cross border crime. Incl. annexes. 40 p.
Document: DEP2010-0444.pdf (PDF)

Found: We base more than 1,000 of˜cers in France and Belgium to stop illegal immigrants before they get to


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I do not think it is relevant to cite France. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) UNHCR representative’s conclusion, which I found most revealing, was that the UK should accept all immigrants - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) They also have to take account of Schengen.Take the case of France. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) When one starts complaining about people who should have stopped in France because France is a safe country - Speech Link


Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Asylum Policy and Legislation (United Kingdom Government) - Wed 10 Jan 2024

Mentions:
1: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) routes for refugees coming to this country; to negotiate new returns and a family reunion agreement with France - Speech Link
2: O'Kane, Paul (Lab - West Scotland) example, it would be worth looking at whether the asylum claim of an asylum seeker who had arrived in France - Speech Link
3: Adam, Karen (SNP - Banffshire and Buchan Coast) Instead, it has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on its inhumane and illegal Rwanda policy, which - Speech Link
4: Sweeney, Paul (Lab - Glasgow) terrorised by the violent Islamist militant group Boko Haram, and she was again forced to flee, to France - Speech Link
5: Choudhury, Foysol (Lab - Lothian) The “fear of the other” rhetoric stokes racism, puts immigrants in danger and deprives the UK of the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: NoneIllegal”—it is an illegal invasion because it is illegal under international law. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) have been lost at sea as migrants have chosen to leave the safety of safe third countries, such as France - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This will help us to continue to stop illegal immigrants from taking dangerous journeys across the channel - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) We now see a very large number of attacks on churches in western Europe, prodigiously in France but also - 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: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Germany takes four times more asylum seekers than the UK, France two and a half times more and Spain - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) On the point about declaring a country safe, France, Germany and other EU countries have decided they - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Certainly, we offer asylum to more applicants than France. - Speech Link
4: None migration to secure, in particular, the ports and railheads in northern France has contributed to the - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) immigrants to get on to lorries or on to the Eurostar—that goes back almost a decade, in fact. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Justification Decision (Scientific Age Imaging) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Despite substantial discussions on amendments during passage of the Illegal Migration Bill, many of which - Speech Link
2: None It is evident from both the Bill’s Explanatory Notes and the CRIA from the then Illegal Migration Bill - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) On Report on the Illegal Migration Bill, the noble Lord, Lord Murray, as my noble friend said, talked - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) explain why scientific methods are used to assess age in, among other countries, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) It is two years since Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) What discussions are His Majesty’s Government having, bilaterally and multilaterally, with France, Germany - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) Are we pressing our allies, particularly France, Germany and the United States, to do more? - Speech Link
4: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In Dover, they observed, there is a big pound of small boats seized from illegal immigrants as they arrive - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Asylum: Channel Crossings - Tue 27 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Gohir (CB - Life peer) I asked this question in writing during the debates on the Illegal Migration Bill; I got a response, - Speech Link
2: Lord Singh of Wimbledon (CB - Life peer) war and arriving in the UK in small boats last year constituted less than 5% of the annual number of immigrants - Speech Link
3: Lord Empey (UUP - Life peer) from the shores of northern France? - Speech Link