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Westminster Hall
Asylum Reforms: Protected Characteristics - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsty Blackman (SNP - Aberdeen North) That is partly because refugees, by their nature, have suffered trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder - Speech Link
2: Carla Denyer (Green - Bristol Central) Requiring refugees—not asylum seekers who are waiting for their decision, but refugees who the Government - Speech Link
3: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) Those six families are still there. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds: Homelessness - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield Hallam) Their statutory duties to support families with a child in need or adults with care needs means that - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) London councils spend tens of millions of pounds supporting families through emergency accommodation. - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield Hallam) on access to public funds and ignores the damaging consequences of the 28-day move-on period for refugees - Speech Link
4: Mike Tapp (Lab - Dover and Deal) essence, it seeks to ensure that those coming to the UK are able to support themselves and their families - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Sudan: Humanitarian Situation - Mon 15 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) The strike killed six Bangladeshi peacekeepers, and our thoughts are with their families. - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) of days a hospital has been shelled, and there are huge concerns about the insecure situation of refugees - Speech Link
3: Chris Elmore (Lab - Bridgend) humanitarian pause, and more broadly a wider ceasefire.On the specific points about support for refugees - Speech Link
4: Patricia Ferguson (Lab - Glasgow West) What action can be taken to support these children and their families? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
The UK’s Demographic Future - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) that aside, because of the level of press publicity, the man in the street will likely point to refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Faulks (Non-affiliated - Life peer) We have an excellent history of accepting refugees. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) We come across families where the children born in particular communities—they are not restricted to - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St Andrew’s Day and Scottish Affairs - Thu 11 Dec 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Patricia Ferguson (Lab - Glasgow West) May I also add my thoughts for the families of the former colleagues we have lost this year to those - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) Visitors and their families support nearly 1,700 full-time jobs in St Andrews and more than 4,000 jobs - Speech Link
3: Susan Murray (LD - Mid Dunbartonshire) Families are cutting back on heating, food and the small treats that make life bearable, just to keep - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Kashmir: Self-determination - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Imran Hussain (Lab - Bradford East) question of self-determination is not some distant, abstract foreign policy matter; it is about families - Speech Link
2: Ayoub Khan (Ind - Birmingham Perry Barr) Families divided by an invisible frontier, guarded by soldiers, live as if they are stitched to opposite - Speech Link
3: Gareth Snell (LAB - Stoke-on-Trent Central) promised to them in 1948 would, at some point, become a reality that would allow them and their families - Speech Link
4: Andy McDonald (Lab - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East) students in India face surveillance, hate speech is rising, and nearly 1,900 Muslims and Rohingya refugees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 10 Dec 2025
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) This country will always be compassionate in relation to refugees and comply with our full obligations - Speech Link
2: Kemi Badenoch (Con - North West Essex) He said he would cut families’ energy bills by £300. - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) Lady that that is on top of the £150 we took off last year for the 3 million poorest families and have - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) How much longer do families and children with special educational needs have to wait for this vital new - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
War in Ukraine - Thu 04 Dec 2025
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Tim Roca (Lab - Macclesfield) Displaced families have exhausted their savings, livelihoods have vanished, and the cumulative stress - Speech Link
2: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) I want to see justice for those families. - Speech Link
3: Al Pinkerton (LD - Surrey Heath) the people of Ukraine, in the form of the atrocities committed and the suffering of the Ukrainian families - Speech Link
4: Al Carns (Lab - Birmingham Selly Oak) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon) have all mentioned the impact on families and children in particular - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Mon 01 Dec 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Claire Coutinho (Con - East Surrey) The Government have taxed working families up the wazoo. - Speech Link
2: Charlie Maynard (LD - Witney) It will make a difference to families struggling with sky-high fuel bills. - Speech Link
3: Seamus Logan (SNP - Aberdeenshire North and Moray East) It certainly does not stand for working people, families or businesses. - Speech Link
4: Gill German (Lab - Clwyd North) This Budget takes real, practical steps to help families in Wales. - Speech Link
5: Naushabah Khan (Lab - Gillingham and Rainham) as a Budget for “Benefits Street”, the families I represent are not surprised. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Sudan - Thu 27 Nov 2025
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Leeds (Bshp - Bishops) this can be avoided without some targeted and serious interventions now.The migration of Sudanese refugees - Speech Link
2: Baroness Anelay of St Johns (Con - Life peer) The poorest families receive five goats and after two years, once that little flock has grown, the five - Speech Link
3: Lord Oates (LD - Life peer) We know that it is needed to provide support to the millions of refugees displaced to refugee camps in - Speech Link
4: Lord Callanan (Con - Life peer) What steps are being taken to get aid to the towns where those refugees are starting to gather, including - Speech Link
5: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) in tents on the border—it was clear that all they wanted was their old lives back, their jobs and families - Speech Link