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Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Commons amendments - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Why are we upset with what China says with respect to Hong Kong or with respect to Taiwan? - Speech Link
2: Lord Carlile of Berriew (XB - Life peer) People who would, in some cases, have had a legitimate right to asylum—a legal right to asylum under - Speech Link
3: Lord Dubs (Lab - Life peer) This House has consistently supported the rights of children in relation to asylum. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Between 2016 and September 2023, there were 11,977 asylum cases where age was disputed. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Sri Lanka: Human Rights - Wed 20 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Brendan O'Hara (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Member for East Ham (Sir Stephen Timms) asking for those fleeing the regime’s persecution to be granted asylum - Speech Link
2: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Member for Strangford (Jim Shannon), who was questioning me just an hour or so ago on issues to do with Hong - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) The reality is that individuals in need of international protection should claim asylum in the first - Speech Link
2: Andrew Rosindell (Con - Romford) diplomatic protest against the draconian new national security laws being imposed on the good people of Hong - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Mon 26 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) under international law and that, therefore, there is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker. - Speech Link
2: Tom Tugendhat (Con - Tonbridge and Malling) Certain communities have been targeted, such as the Hong Kong Chinese community, which is now very welcome - Speech Link
3: Olivia Blake (Lab - Sheffield, Hallam) What steps his Department is taking to help ensure the safety and wellbeing of asylum seekers in asylum - Speech Link
4: Daniel Kawczynski (Con - Shrewsbury and Atcham) What progress his Department has made on closing asylum hotels. - Speech Link
5: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) Given that, is not time to give asylum seekers the right to work in this country? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 20 Feb 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Browne of Ladyton (Lab - Life peer) with reality, noble Lords heard, in the opening sentences of his introducing the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) repression from the same capital, as I have spoken as co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Hong - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Wed 14 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: None friend Lord Craig of Radley tabled amendments, which I supported, about the position of ex-servicemen in Hong - Speech Link
2: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) I humbly suggest that if there were a Rwandan asylum seeker here claiming asylum, they would be covered - Speech Link
3: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) If you have a right to asylum, you have a right to asylum. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) to asylum in the UK. - Speech Link
5: Lord Wolfson of Tredegar (Con - Life peer) to asylum in the UK. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage - Mon 12 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Blunkett (Lab - Life peer) As there are no current resettlement routes outside the particular routes for Ukraine and Hong Kong that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (Green - Life peer) Kong—that I invite noble Lords who are opposing these amendments to turn this around and say how we - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) the new Chinese Government simply abandoned everything that they negotiated on the withdrawal from Hong - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 29 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) a million people safe and legal routes into the United Kingdom through our Afghanistan, Ukraine and Hong - Speech Link
2: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) is an incredible number, by far the highest in our history, albeit with some special factors such as Hong - Speech Link
3: Baroness Stowell of Beeston (Con - Life peer) Kong, are testimony to that.Whether or not the Rwanda scheme is implemented, it will likely do little - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Abuses: UK Response - Wed 24 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Sarah Owen (Lab - Luton North) Hong Kong Watch advises that his trial is partly based on the testimony of a witness who underwent torture - Speech Link
2: John McDonnell (Lab - Hayes and Harlington) I want to raise the case of two of my friends and colleagues in Hong Kong who have been detained for - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Human Rights in Hong Kong - Tue 23 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) I want to thank Hong Kong Watch, the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation and the Inter-Parliamentary - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) in exile, particularly those who have been granted asylum and have faced past and current threats from - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Hong Kong is not bright. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) That is the reality in Hong Kong. - Speech Link