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Select Committee
1st Report - All families matter: An inquiry into family migration

Report Feb. 28 2023

Inquiry: Family Migration
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: In respect of the ADR route, we heard that “Brexit now makes the UK a rare case globally, totally unexpected


Select Committee
16th Report - Includes information paragraphs on: 1 instrument relating to COVID-19, Draft Assistance with Voting for Persons with Disabilities (Amendments) Regulations 2022, Draft Biocidal Products (Health and Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2022, Draft Civil Legal Aid (Housing and Asylum Accommodation) Order 2022, Draft European University Institute (EU Exit) Regulations 2022, Draft Investigatory Powers (Covert Human Intelligence Sources and Interception: Codes of Practice) Regulations 2022, Draft Pensions Dashboards Regulations 2022, Draft Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) (Threshold Amount) Order 2022, Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (Extraction of Information: Code of Practice) Regulations 2022

Report Nov. 03 2022

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: After Brexit, authorisation of the ‘active substances’ within these products was transferred from the


Select Committee
Centre for Care, University of Sheffield
FAM0041 - Family Migration

Written Evidence Oct. 26 2022

Inquiry: Family Migration
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Found: 7 Great Britain.


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Lords Hansard - Part 1 - Wed 02 Mar 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) It is not only Britain that is dealing with this issue; it is Greece, Italy, France, Spain and so on. - Speech Link
2: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) The figures show that it was quite successful and it was an important part of reuniting families.When - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, since post Brexit, the EU’s Dublin III regulation no longer protects the rights of unaccompanied - Speech Link
4: None I did not have the confidence in my heart that I would be able to keep the promise of reuniting her husband - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Committee stage - Tue 08 Feb 2022
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Kirkhope of Harrogate (CON - Life peer) listed in Section 77 of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 as amended by Schedule 3.Before Brexit - Speech Link
2: Lord Cormack (CON - Life peer) We have gone on a lot about global Britain, but if I am to be proud of global Britain, I want to be proud - Speech Link
3: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) that basis.I have a fundamental objection to the entire approach with this reinterpreting of a shared post-World - Speech Link
4: Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB - Life peer) ourselves are going to unscramble and diminish the importance of the 1951 convention.I suppose that, as a post-war - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) I applaud the Government for enabling the reuniting of some families, but I am thinking about those who - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
2nd reading - Wed 05 Jan 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) A truly global Britain would cherish the refugee convention as a central pillar of the post-war international - Speech Link
2: Lord Hylton (CB - Excepted Hereditary) I will speak about the context of the Bill, reuniting families, and humanising our policy on refugees.This - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stroud (CON - Life peer) Post-Brexit global Britain should aspire to continue this tradition. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Nationality and Borders Bill
Report stage - Tue 07 Dec 2021
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) some extraordinary comments from Opposition Members implying that we can simply pop a letter in the post - Speech Link
2: Kevin Foster (CON - Torbay) could never deprive someone of citizenship just because it is not practical to pop a letter in the post - Speech Link
3: Bambos Charalambous (LAB - Enfield, Southgate) these family members do not end up being exploited by criminal gangs, and have promised them a route to reuniting - Speech Link
4: Matt Rodda (LAB - Reading East) If I may finish, I am afraid that that is a result of Government policy over the Brexit deal and a number - Speech Link
5: Shailesh Vara (CON - North West Cambridgeshire) As a point of clarification, the comment was made in the previous intervention that Brexit was a Government - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - Tue 16 Nov 2021
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tulip Siddiq (LAB - Hampstead and Kilburn) I am appreciative of the fact that the new Foreign Secretary called me as soon as she was in post and - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (CON - South West Surrey) There must be two outcomes: first, the reuniting of all the families who have been separated by this - Speech Link
3: Sarah Olney (LDEM - Richmond Park) I want to express, on behalf of my constituents, how for them this is really about reuniting a mother - Speech Link
4: Barbara Keeley (LAB - Worsley and Eccles South) Her life is being used as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic game between Britain and Iran. - Speech Link
5: Patrick Grady (IND - Glasgow North) I hope there will be a further debate on that in the Chamber very soon.Throughout the Brexit campaign - Speech Link


Scottish Government Publication (Independent report)
External Affairs Directorate

Oct. 12 2021

Source Page: Family migration: understanding the drivers, impacts and support needs of migrant families
Document: <h1>Family Migration: Understanding the Drivers, Impacts and Support Needs of Migrant Families in Scotland</h1> (PDF)

Found: Migrant households are less likely to have no-one employed at all, reflecting the fact that most post


Lords Chamber
Refugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]
2nd reading - Fri 10 Sep 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LDEM - Life peer) These are the people who make Britain what it is today. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) UNHCR, the Refugee Council, Amnesty International and Save the Children all have evidence of how not reuniting - Speech Link
3: Lord Griffiths of Burry Port (LAB - Life peer) themselves at odds with the letter and spirit of the convention that has helped us to deal with the post-war - Speech Link
4: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) You must get yourself to Britain, because that is the way we will get in—you will sponsor us.” - Speech Link