Mentions:
1: Dan Carden (LAB - Liverpool, Walton) Those numbers include refugees under the respective Ukraine and Hong Kong schemes, but that growth has - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (CON - East Worthing and Shoreham) Some 160,700 were from Hong Kong. Again, most people would see a justified case for that. - Speech Link
3: Peter Bottomley (CON - Worthing West) We are doing the same thing with the people from Hong Kong, from Syria and from Ukraine.My grandmother - Speech Link
4: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) Kong, are forcing persecuted and vulnerable people to flee their homelands. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) I do so because the Government’s own document on safe and legal routes, in its description of Hong Kong - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) In saying that, particularly looking at the exclusion of the Ukrainian, Afghan and Hong Kong BNO schemes - Speech Link
3: Lord Bishop of Durham (Bishops - Bishops) Kong but particularly about Hong Kong, has not been accepted. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Vicky Ford (CON - Chelmsford) spending more of our overseas aid on stabilising lives in such places as east Africa and less on expensive asylum - Speech Link
2: Catherine West (LAB - Hornsey and Wood Green) There is still a significant fear felt by the Hong Kong community and a sense that the Chinese Government - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LDEM - Life peer) They are not expecting to return to Hong Kong now.There is another important point. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (LAB - Life peer) to what is happening in Hong Kong and China. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) We have done a great deal for the citizens of Hong Kong and hope to continue to do so. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) the country where an asylum seeker first arrives. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meacher (CB - Life peer) These apply to Ukraine and Hong Kong—to put things simply. - Speech Link
3: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) seekers, cannot be selective about where they wish to seek asylum. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LDEM - Life peer) By definition, many of the asylum seekers are seeking asylum because they are being persecuted because - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) Kong British nationals overseas schemes. - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) The first was to provide sanctuary here in the United Kingdom for Hong Kong BNOs, to whom we have a moral - Speech Link
3: Stuart C McDonald (SNP - Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East) Of course, it was right to welcome Ukrainians and BNOs from Hong Kong in 2022, and we welcome that as - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Spencer (CON - Sherwood) The immigration figures were partly driven by people coming from Ukraine and Hong Kong. - Speech Link
2: Drew Hendry (SNP - Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey) Nearly 200 civil society organisations covering human trafficking, modern slavery, asylum and refugees - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) particularly high figures are partly due to temporary and exceptional factors, such as the UK’s Ukraine and Hong - Speech Link
2: Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle (GRN - Life peer) My Lords, in the migration figures out this morning, the figures for the asylum backlog—the number of - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hope of Craighead (CB - Life peer) United Kingdom … will be promptly removed to their home country or to a safe third country to have any asylum - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (LAB - Life peer) In the words of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, it amounts to“an asylum ban—extinguishing the - Speech Link
3: None Anyone arriving at a country by any means has the right to claim asylum. - Speech Link
4: Lord Coaker (LAB - Life peer) The noble Lord, Lord Patten, knows what happened in Hong Kong with the agreement. - Speech Link
5: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) This means that such persons are illegal migrants whether or not they go on to claim asylum. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) Zero asylum seekers in his constituency. - Speech Link
2: Siobhain McDonagh (LAB - Mitcham and Morden) My constituents Mrs L and Mr M, from Hong Kong, came to the UK on a British national overseas passport - Speech Link
3: Suella Braverman (CON - Fareham) We have welcomed more than 100,000 people from Hong Kong via our BNO scheme. - Speech Link