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Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Alex McIntyre (Lab - Gloucester) What support can we give to those families, who are having to deal with a hotel on their doorstep that - Speech Link
2: Shabana Mahmood (Lab - Birmingham Ladywood) Safe and legal routes relate to those who we would accept as refugees before they enter this country, - Speech Link
3: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) What steps she is taking through the visa and immigration system to support refugees from Ukraine. - Speech Link
4: Catherine Fookes (Lab - Monmouthshire) Blwyddyn newydd dda, Mr Speaker.Monmouthshire hosts more than 400 refugees from Ukraine. - Speech Link
5: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Happy new year, Mr Speaker.Bath Welcomes Refugees has supported more than 800 refugees to integrate and - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rights of Women and Girls: Afghanistan - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alice Macdonald (LAB - Norwich North) As the Minister knows well, the crisis has been made worse by the return of Afghan refugees from Iran - Speech Link
2: Hamish Falconer (Lab - Lincoln) nutrition conference in London, strengthening our response to the hardships and hunger facing Afghan families - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Diego Garcia Military Base and British Indian Ocean Territory Bill
Report stage - Mon 05 Jan 2026
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Lord De Mauley (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Many Chagossians describe the multigenerational hardships they and their families have experienced as - Speech Link
2: Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee (Non-affiliated - Life peer) The Chagos Refugees Group, which seems to be the only group that the UK Government engage with, has only - Speech Link
3: None As the statement by the Chagos Refugees Group, delivered by its chair Olivier Bancoult last month, demonstrates - Speech Link


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