Apr. 10 2024
Source Page: Statistics on International Development: provisional UK aid spend 2023Found: help meet the significant and unanticipated costs incurred in supporting the people of Ukraine and Afghanistan
Mar. 28 2024
Source Page: New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy: 2024Found: learning from the Covid-19 pandemic and the large- scale relocation and resettlement of people from Syria, Afghanistan
Oral Evidence Mar. 26 2024
Committee: Liaison Committee (Commons)Found: expecting to send all 33,000 people to Rwanda, because obviously they cannot make a claim for asylum
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Khan Review: Threats to Social Cohesion and Democratic ResilienceFound: The exploitation of asylum hotels by far-right actors Immigration and asylum policy is a legitimate yet
Mar. 25 2024
Source Page: The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2024Found: person subject to immigration control within the meaning of section 115(9) of the Immigration and Asylum
Mentions:
1: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) My Lords, how many of those already denied asylum are still in the country? - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) position of Afghans who had supported our servicemen or translators while they did honourable duty in Afghanistan - Speech Link
3: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) making asylum applications on first application? - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Obviously, some of the cases we are looking at will involve people from Afghanistan, as the noble Lord - Speech Link
Oral Evidence Mar. 20 2024
Committee: Constitution CommitteeFound: speed, it means that somebody who ends up in Rwanda cannot be sent back to a nation, be it Syria or Afghanistan
Found: Investigation into asylum accommodation
Mentions:
1: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) People who would, in some cases, have had a legitimate right to asylum—a legal right to asylum under - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) In his words:“I endangered my life and future working for the UK Government in Afghanistan. - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) They will look back at what we have done in Afghanistan and wonder whether we can be true to our word - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) How many more immigrants does he want to come to the UK from Afghanistan? - Speech Link
2: Rushanara Ali (Lab - Bethnal Green and Bow) Friend aware that Pakistan is now forcing Afghan asylum seekers back to Afghanistan? - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) That is a significant amendment, particularly in the context of Afghanistan. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) When Afghanistan fell, we had about 80 people in touch who had relatives in Afghanistan, but I know of - Speech Link
5: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) The first relates to Lords amendment 10 and those who helped us in Afghanistan. - Speech Link