Oral Evidence Jan. 17 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: They are guilty because the Act blanketly assumes them to be illegal immigrants, and withdraws their
Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) narrowly, so that most people do go to Rwanda, and therefore it is a definite deterrent to people leaving France - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) through modern social media et cetera to get across the message to the people who are at present in France - Speech Link
3: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) They are being asked to do that to deter illegal immigration. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It is not possible for that to happen under the Illegal Migration Act. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) The Illegal Migration Act has a similar introductory section. - Speech Link
2: None The Labor Party in Australia has just reduced the cap on the number of immigrants allowed into that country - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) To Britain, whence they came—they are not applying for asylum here—or back to France, our great partner - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) France passed a measure on immigration, only to have the very amendments that had allowed it to pass, - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) action to tackle criminal gangs, including more co-operation with our European partners—particularly France—and - Speech Link
Formal Minutes Mar. 14 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: , Anti -slavery International, Zehrah Hasan, Advocacy Director at Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
Mentions:
1: Bob Stewart (CON - Beckenham) , that would be not only in our interests but in the interests of France, because we would stop people - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) In the last years of its operation, more people were being brought from France to the United Kingdom - Speech Link
3: Anum Qaisar (SNP - Airdrie and Shotts) Immigrants across all four nations make a contribution to society, politically, economically and socially - Speech Link
4: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Immigrants make an invaluable contribution to our economy and enrich our communities. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None deterring people who arrive via illegal routes. - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) Bill and, by extension, the Rwanda scheme is to remove illegal immigrants quickly without prejudice to - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I often hear Members on the Government Benches say, “France is a safe country, why don’t people stay - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Labour Members say, “We have to do more to talk to France”. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) There is hatred of other—foreigners, immigrants, scroungers, Muslims, Jews, the rich, the lazy, the lucky - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) We are seeing it in France, Germany and the United States, where ex-President Trump says he wants to - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) to prison and Sunak accusing Labour of being in cahoots with criminal gangs in the perpetuation of illegal - Speech Link
4: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) We should take a leaf out of the book of Ireland, France, Canada and elsewhere and introduce citizens - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (LAB - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) failing Rwanda scheme and instead to go after the criminal gangs, and to secure a stronger agreement with France - Speech Link
2: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) migration policies are themselves illegal. - Speech Link
3: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) What I object to is people fleeing a safe country such as France, paying evil people-smuggling gangs, - Speech Link
4: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) Many of them have chosen deliberately to leave a safe country such as France and to pay people-smuggling - Speech Link
5: Danny Kruger (CON - Devizes) immigrants, either back to their own country or to a safe third country. - Speech Link
Report Feb. 12 2024
Committee: Human Rights (Joint Committee)Found: In June 2023, we published a report on the Illegal Migration Bill, which contained a number of clauses
Found: immigrants from the Middle East and Africa under the forced relocation mechanism imposed by the European