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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


Grand Committee
Refugee Integration - Thu 18 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord Jackson of Peterborough (Con - Life peer) number of years: we have welcomed 20,000 people under the two Afghanistan schemes, 185,000 under the Hong - Speech Link
2: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) on asylum support and in asylum accommodation for 28 days from the point of the biometric residence - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House day 2 - Wed 17 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Tim Farron (LD - Westmorland and Lonsdale) They seek asylum. Where do they go next? - Speech Link
2: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) The cost of asylum is now £3.97 billion. - Speech Link
3: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) safety for about 80,000 from Ukraine; we have opened our arms to some 250,000 British nationals of Hong - Speech Link
4: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) They have done amazing work supporting the resettlement of British passport holders from Hong Kong, Syrians - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Rules-based International Order - Tue 16 Jan 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) If that is the case, why do we still grant asylum to people coming from Rwanda? - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) international treaty, which has led to the dismantling of democracy and of “one country, two systems” in Hong - Speech Link
3: Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Con - Life peer) that and how we do not think that it is in line with the arrangements that were put in place when the Hong - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee of the whole House Day 1 - Tue 16 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and - Speech Link
2: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 and the Asylum and - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) Look at the Hong Kong scheme. There are plenty of ways of doing upstream and offshore processing. - Speech Link
4: William Cash (Con - Stone) genuine refugees are fairly protected—this country has always done that—as in the case of Afghanistan, Hong - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Rwanda Plan Cost and Asylum System - Tue 09 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) It is also what happened for the Hong Kong scheme.We know that the cost is now £400 million, and we can - Speech Link
2: Tahir Ali (Lab - Birmingham, Hall Green) The Government’s approach to asylum seekers can at best be described as a farce. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) The current overall backlog is almost 100,000 asylum cases. - Speech Link
4: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West) The current overall backlog is almost 100,000 asylum cases. - Speech Link
5: Sarah Edwards (Lab - Tamworth) The current overall backlog is almost 100,000 asylum cases. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Trial of Jimmy Lai - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) The Foreign Secretary has called on the Hong Kong authorities to end their prosecution of Jimmy Lai and - Speech Link
2: Iain Duncan Smith (Con - Chingford and Woodford Green) Are the UK Government considering how to allow Hong Kong asylum applications to switch to British National - Speech Link
3: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) people and we have extended our arms embargo on mainland China to cover Hong Kong. - Speech Link
4: Fiona Bruce (Con - Congleton) Kong”, the new report by Hong Kong Watch? - Speech Link
5: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) Can the Minister explain UK Government policy on whether Hong Kong campaigners should qualify for asylum - Speech Link