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Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (Second sitting)
Committee stage: 2nd sitting - Tue 15 Sep 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) Our experience is that refugees have a much better integration outcome when they have their families - Speech Link
2: Matt Vickers (Con - Stockton West) That enables families using article 8 to remain together in the country. - Speech Link
3: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) go back decades, for example families from the Commonwealth territories. - Speech Link


Public Bill Committees
Immigration and Asylum Bill (First sitting) - Tue 15 Sep 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Paul Foster (Lab - South Ribble) A high proportion of asylum seekers are subsequently recognised as refugees, and essentially saddling - Speech Link
2: Siân Berry (Green - Brighton Pavilion) We think that giving refugees the possibility to start afresh and moving them as quickly as possible - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) Those provisions concern people who are genuine refugees; it just means that those genuine refugees can - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Palestine - Mon 14 Sep 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) These drastic steps will affect the lives of British people and, in particular, Jewish families. - Speech Link
2: Alicia Kearns (Con - Rutland and Stamford) Their families are still waiting for the unedited drone footage to be handed to the coroner and for a - Speech Link
3: Matthew Patrick (Lab - Wirral West) Jewish families wished one another “Shana Tova”. - Speech Link
4: Allison Gardner (Lab - Stoke-on-Trent South) It found that sexual violence against women and girls was a factor in families deciding to leave their - Speech Link
5: Naz Shah (Lab - Bradford West) Israel acknowledged serious failures in the strike and dismissed two officers, yet the families of the - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Israel and Palestine - Wed 09 Sep 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: None meant for Palestinian communities: houses bulldozed; roads and public infrastructure destroyed; families - Speech Link
2: None Families in the village are increasingly cut off from accessing their land, squeezed into ever smaller - Speech Link
3: None killed, mutilated and tortured by Hamas terrorists; people murdered while seeking to protect their families - Speech Link
4: None My parents came to this country as Jewish refugees and found sanctuary and a country that stood up for - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Israel and Palestine - Tue 08 Sep 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Ed Miliband (Lab - Doncaster North) meant for Palestinian communities: houses bulldozed; roads and public infrastructure destroyed; families - Speech Link
2: Calum Miller (LD - Bicester and Woodstock) I know that that will echo with many Jewish families in the UK, including those in my constituency.Let - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Conflict in Sudan - Tue 08 Sep 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Gordon McKee (Lab - Glasgow South) At the event at which we met Sudanese refugees, what most struck me was the scale of medical need. - Speech Link
2: Naushabah Khan (Lab - Gillingham and Rainham) Between 2024 and 2025, the number of Sudanese refugees arriving in Europe rose by 232%. - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) Egypt alone is currently hosting some 1.5 million refugees fleeing from the violence. - Speech Link
4: Monica Harding (LD - Esher and Walton) Chad now hosts more than 1.5 million refugees, the majority of them from Sudan. - Speech Link
5: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) Egypt alone hosts about 1.5 million Sudanese refugees. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Social Mobility: Local Roots, Lasting Change (Social Mobility Policy Committee Report) - Fri 04 Sep 2026
Northern Ireland Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone (Con - Life peer) He is the son of Albanian refugees who came to the UK during the Kosovo war. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) But whatever the commission’s future, promoting the importance of stable families to children’s future - Speech Link
3: Baroness Wolf of Dulwich (XB - Life peer) among men born between 1938 and 1947, two-fifths of them were upwardly mobile compared with their families - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Global Biodiversity and Ecosystems: National Security - Thu 03 Sep 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) assessment lays out the consequences: food insecurity, economic insecurity, increased migration and refugees - Speech Link
2: Brian Mathew (LD - Melksham and Devizes) Elsewhere in the world, life itself may become intolerable, leading to many more climate refugees seeking - Speech Link
3: Neil Hudson (Con - Epping Forest) This debate considers national security and keeping the UK—our families, homes and livelihoods—safe. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Illegal Immigrants: Offshore Detention and Deportation - Mon 13 Jul 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Jonathan Brash (Lab - Hartlepool) They are felt by families in Hartlepool. - Speech Link
2: Esther McVey (Con - Tatton) That was a kick in the teeth for local families, who were told that that estate would offer affordable - Speech Link
3: James McMurdock (Ind - South Basildon and East Thurrock) This is a balanced approach: firm on illegal migration, fair to genuine refugees and responsible to the - Speech Link
4: Will Forster (LD - Woking) Since 2015, my town has welcomed hundreds of refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Immigration and Asylum Bill
2nd reading - Mon 13 Jul 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) , and 70% of those sponsored refugees have found work within a year. - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) It is designed to be fair to genuine refugees and fair to British citizens. - Speech Link
3: Diane Abbott (Ind - Hackney North and Stoke Newington) Families were split up. People lost their jobs. - Speech Link
4: Lewis Atkinson (Lab - Sunderland Central) who offered their city of sanctuary to Ukrainian refugees. - Speech Link
5: Steve Witherden (Lab - Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr) This will affect a large number of families. - Speech Link