Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) the use of asylum hotels. - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) Kong friends with British national overseas visas, backed further by £4.7 billion in asylum costs in - Speech Link
3: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) What would happen in a scenario in which somebody from Hong Kong went back in order to attend the funeral - Speech Link
4: Tom Hayes (Lab - Bournemouth East) back to Hong Kong and is willing to entertain the risk in order to briefly grieve with her family and - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Pete Wishart (SNP - Perth and Kinross-shire) The only means they have to get to the UK are small boats.There is also the Hong Kong scheme. - Speech Link
2: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) Although the Ukrainian and Hong Kong schemes are not specifically refugee schemes —they are analogous - Speech Link
3: Will Forster (LD - Woking) The Ukrainian scheme is a clear example of success, as is the Hong Kong scheme, yet this Government, - Speech Link
4: None Gentleman has already said, for Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong, and information on those routes is - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) Of the figure I gave, just 100,000—7.5%—were asylum seekers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sahota (Lab - Life peer) A rumour spread on social media falsely claiming that a Muslim asylum seeker was responsible. - Speech Link
3: Lord Khan of Burnley (Lab - Life peer) Kong, Syria, Afghanistan and Ukraine. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) Almost half, about 400,000, came here to work; around 375,000 were students and roughly 150,000 were asylum - Speech Link
2: Richard Tice (RUK - Boston and Skegness) In 2004, I think, the acceptance rate for asylum seekers was about 18% to 20%. - Speech Link
3: Dave Robertson (Lab - Lichfield) For most of that time I was not very old, but to his point about asylum success rates being different - Speech Link
4: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) What we do know is that £3 billion was allocated to housing asylum seekers in hotels. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) years, a scandalously large amount of ODA has been diverted primarily to the Home Office to support asylum - Speech Link
2: David Taylor (Lab - Hemel Hempstead) Friend the Member for Rotherham (Sarah Champion) about asylum costs. - Speech Link
3: John Whittingdale (Con - Maldon) Kong, and of Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen imprisoned in Egypt. - Speech Link
4: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) Asylum seekers come here full of hope for a better future for themselves and their families. - Speech Link
5: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) The Government have taken measures to reduce the asylum backlog and the use of expensive asylum accommodation - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Angela Eagle (Lab - Wallasey) But I respectfully point out that it has nothing to do with asylum seeking. - Speech Link
2: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) By 2024, they were spending £47,000 per asylum seeker, per year. - Speech Link
3: Jo White (Lab - Bassetlaw) To repeat myself, all the evidence is that when asylum claimants think of where to claim asylum they - Speech Link
4: Kenneth Stevenson (Lab - Airdrie and Shotts) We then spoke about unkindness to asylum seekers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley) get asylum support and get put up in an asylum hotel, but the Home Office could never take a decision - Speech Link
2: Lewis Cocking (Con - Broxbourne) The Home Secretary mentions asylum hotels. - Speech Link
3: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con - Huntingdon) The Illegal Migration Act blocked asylum seekers from claiming asylum based on their method of entry, - Speech Link
4: Tony Vaughan (Lab - Folkestone and Hythe) We have schemes for Ukraine, Afghanistan and Hong Kong, and we should be thinking about increasing the - Speech Link
5: Nadia Whittome (Lab - Nottingham East) When sector organisations such as Asylum Matters, Asylum Aid, Médecins Sans Frontières, the Refugee Council - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Moraes (Lab - Life peer) director of JCWI, an independent legal protection NGO in the area of immigration, nationality and asylum - Speech Link
2: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) They are issues such as free movement-like arrangements, participation in asylum or migration arrangements - Speech Link
3: Earl of Dundee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) debate, with 12 different countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Iceland, Uruguay, Hong - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Davies of Gower (Con - Life peer) We have welcomed in refugees from Afghanistan, Ukraine and Hong Kong, which, when in government, we could - Speech Link
2: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) First, asylum is serious, but it is far from being the main issue. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Sugg (Con - Life peer) Can the Minister reassure us that this will include survivors who are seeking asylum? - Speech Link
4: Lord Hanson of Flint (Lab - Life peer) This Government inherited an asylum system under exceptional strain. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) Kong scheme: these are all safe and legal routes. - Speech Link
2: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) Kong programmes.Indeed, in 2023, 62,000 grants of application for asylum were made, against 84,000 in-country - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) system, the first focus of which must be on asylum seekers themselves. - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) Kong and Afghanistan. - Speech Link