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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


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 26 Nov 2025
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Chris Murray (Lab - Edinburgh East and Musselburgh) agree with me that there is nothing progressive about not fixing a system where public support for refugees - Speech Link
2: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) That is why this Budget is for families who I know are equally worried about the cost of living today - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) scale of suffering and the scale of the loss of life, which is made clear in the testimonies of the families - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Migration: Settlement Pathway - Tue 25 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Our lives and those of our families are more dangerous in a country that turns inwards, so we have no - Speech Link
2: None As has already been set out, refugees on core protection will qualify for settlement after 20 years, - Speech Link
3: None They have families here—wives, husbands and children. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Asylum Policy - Thu 20 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None While some are refugees, others are economic migrants seeking to use and abuse our asylum system. - Speech Link
2: None Over 100,000 people now live in asylum accommodation, and over half of refugees remain on benefits eight - Speech Link
3: None To encourage refugees into work, we will also consult on removing benefits for those who are able to - Speech Link
4: None So we will now begin the removal of families. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum Policy - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) While some are refugees, others are economic migrants seeking to use and abuse our asylum system. - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) They are not classed as refugees, because they are here temporarily on that scheme. - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) The other issue is that in the past, she has mentioned the forced removal of families. - Speech Link
4: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) I absolutely agree about the contribution that migrants and refugees make to our country. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Social Media Posts: Penalties for Offences - Mon 17 Nov 2025
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) intrigued as to whether free speech is deemed acceptable only if it is used to threaten the lives of refugees - Speech Link
2: Richard Quigley (Lab - Isle of Wight West) Member for Clacton, just as it is completely wrong to call for hotels housing refugees to be burned down - Speech Link
3: Zöe Franklin (LD - Guildford) eventually opened a formal investigation under the Online Safety Act, but only in 2025—long after families - Speech Link