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Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) It does not suggest we take up the French offer of a processing centre in France, although for the life - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) If not, it will do little or nothing to stop the boats coming from France. - Speech Link
3: None crossings or migratory figures unless we know the total number of immigrants we already have in this - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) I accept that counting the number of illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom presents one or two more - Speech Link
5: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) immigrants in this country—his amendment is not germane to the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Haskel (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, before the House resumes consideration of the Illegal Migration Bill on Report, we come to - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) The duty on the Home Secretary to make arrangements for the removal of all illegal entrants back to their - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) point out that we face a very difficult policy problem, with serious effects on public opinion towards immigrants - Speech Link
4: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Why do we reject only 25% of claims for asylum, whereas France rejects 75%? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lawlor (CON - Life peer) It would undermine the purpose of the measure to prevent and deter illegal and unsafe routes. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Migration and Economic Development Partnership - Thu 29 Jun 2023
Home Office

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


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Wed 28 Jun 2023
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) It is only 25% in France and in almost all other countries it is below ours. - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) It is not only the UK but other countries—Italy, Spain and France—that are in discussion, because this - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) disadvantage those who have arrived illegally from safe countries, which is true of all who come from France - Speech Link
4: Lord Hacking (LAB - Excepted Hereditary) Thirdly, they will be branded as illegal immigrants and barred for ever from entering the UK. - Speech Link
5: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) We know that the majority of children who reach France claim asylum there; it is a minority who claim - 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


Commons Chamber
Migration - Thu 15 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) immigrants, which is an entirely different debate. - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (CON - Witham) I will quickly touch on illegal migration. - Speech Link
3: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) Nobody is illegal. It is not only confusing in that way. - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham was right to raise the question of France. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 3 - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (LAB - Life peer) on Amendment 139B, regarding the implementation of the report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons on immigrants - Speech Link
2: Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (Bishops - Bishops) broke out in Khartoum a few weeks ago.Many other European countries also are taking more, including France - Speech Link
3: Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth (CON - Life peer) where we have had success at all—I accept that we have had some—is in talking to partners, including France - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) not illegal, but they are being turned illegal when they arrive here. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 2 - Wed 14 Jun 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (CON - Life peer) However, many of these illegal immigrants will be in low-paid and insecure jobs. - Speech Link
2: None were in Holland—which was predominantly used to accommodate migrants who had undertaken crossings from France - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Net Migration Figures - Thu 25 May 2023
Home Office

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


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Committee stage: Part 1 - Wed 24 May 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (LAB - Life peer) Denying those arriving illegally from France, or any other safe country”is, she concluded,“therefore, - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) One read it to say that refugees must come directly from a place of danger —that is, not France—present - Speech Link
3: Lord Desai (CB - Life peer) A sense of this issue is in Amendment 1: the Bill should not have been called an illegal immigrants Bill - Speech Link
4: Lord Sahota (LAB - Life peer) As the son and daughter of immigrants, they should know how much immigrants have given to this country - Speech Link
5: Lord Dubs (LAB - Life peer) That inflamed public opinion and moved it away from sympathy for immigrants, and indeed for refugees, - Speech Link