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Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Committee stage - Thu 04 Sep 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) immigrants above the rights of our local people. - Speech Link
2: Lord Banner (Con - Life peer) If it does not, has it turned a blind eye to something which is illegal? - Speech Link
3: Lord Framlingham (Con - Life peer) immigrants in a tiny village can have as much effect as a larger number in an urban area? - Speech Link
4: Lord Jamieson (Con - Life peer) as our own climate changes and, as he mentioned, as they inevitably move further northwards from France - Speech Link
5: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) He is right that I was not intimately acquainted with the procedure of termites in France. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Borders and Asylum - Tue 02 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None “With permission, I will update the House on the actions we are taking with France to strengthen our - Speech Link
2: None allowed to embed their criminal trade along the French coast; the asylum backlog was soaring; and illegal - Speech Link
3: None No one should be making these dangerous or illegal journeys on small boats; if they do, we want to see - Speech Link
4: None , and we will continue to work with France to implement the change as soon as possible. - Speech Link
5: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) It is important to be positive about the contribution to our society and economy of immigrants. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Borders and Asylum - Mon 01 Sep 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Far from smashing the gangs, so far this year, 29,000—to be precise, 29,003—illegal immigrants have crossed - Speech Link
2: Bradley Thomas (Con - Bromsgrove) of social housing for illegal immigrants? - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum Hotels: Migrant Criminal Activity - Mon 21 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) (Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on criminal activity by illegal immigrants - Speech Link
2: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) immigrants housed in the Government’s own asylum hotels. - Speech Link
3: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) The Human Rights Act 1998 was never intended to cover illegal immigrants of this sort. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Strategic Defence Review 2025 - Fri 18 Jul 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord Tugendhat (Con - Life peer) I congratulate the Government on the way in which they have repaired relationships with Germany, France - Speech Link
2: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) on European leadership, which has to come from the closest possible co-operation between the UK, France - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) The moves to co-operation and bilateral defence agreements with Germany and France have been extremely - Speech Link
4: Earl of Courtown (Con - Excepted Hereditary) France has three Mistral-class landing helicopter docks in addition to its “Charles de Gaulle” aircraft - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK-France Migration: Co-operation - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) immigrants arriving in the UK. - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) For example, will elements of the Illegal Migration Act be used? - Speech Link
3: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) France is an independent country and it will process them itself. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
UK-France Migration: Co-operation - Mon 14 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) The only number we have seen reported is just 50 illegal immigrants a week. - Speech Link
2: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) one asylum seeker”from France“in return for one illegal migrant that we return to them. - Speech Link
3: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) for illegal working by 50%, and increased the penalties for employers that exploit illegal migration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Thu 10 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) immigrants there are in the country? - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) That policy was chosen because it replicated the only purely successful means of stopping illegal immigrants - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) I am all in favour of having favourable relations with France. - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) to pilot the return of illegal migrants across the channel. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill
Committee stage part one - Tue 08 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Harper (Con - Life peer) They are not fleeing persecution in France; they are already in a safe European country. - Speech Link
2: None The example is given at paragraph 22 of a teenage boy in northern France who sends his mother in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) It is aimed at those who provide the tools that make dangerous, illegal crossings possible: those who - Speech Link
4: None entry and illegal presence. - Speech Link
5: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) Illegal migrants enter the UK without going through any checks whatever. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 07 Jul 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) Local eyewitnesses confirmed that the illegal immigrants in the hotel had been illegally working. - Speech Link
2: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) We are doing more, including extending the law on illegal working to the gig economy. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (Con - Croydon South) So far, 2025 has been the worst year in history when it comes to illegal immigrants crossing the channel - Speech Link
4: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) and action to tackle illegal working and reform the asylum system in the UK. - Speech Link