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Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Moylan (Con - Life peer) We now see a very large number of attacks on churches in western Europe, prodigiously in France but also - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: NoneIllegal”—it is an illegal invasion because it is illegal under international law. - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) have been lost at sea as migrants have chosen to leave the safety of safe third countries, such as France - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This will help us to continue to stop illegal immigrants from taking dangerous journeys across the channel - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) For far too long we have had far too many illegal immigrants coming into our country. - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) They clearly do not care about the cost to the public purse of hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) That touched on the work with France and the funding we gave France, which since my departure has increased - Speech Link
2: Julian Lewis (Con - New Forest East) would be the end of the line for those illegal immigrants. - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Why are so many migrants in the north of France around Calais? - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) France receives more applications, but rejects twice as many as we do. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Budget Resolutions - Wed 06 Mar 2024
Department for Business and Trade

Mentions:
1: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con - North East Somerset) That is why I am not at all keen on the attack on non-doms.The OBR forecast expects 350,000 immigrants - Speech Link
2: David Davis (Con - Haltemprice and Howden) Doubly so, because post Brexit, other countries—France in particular—have actively set out to drag those - Speech Link
3: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con - North East Somerset) France, Italy and Portugal, our oldest ally. - Speech Link
4: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) more growth, and I hope that this is a Budget for that.This is a debate about the Budget, not about illegal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Smith of Basildon (Lab - Life peer) It is two years since Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) What discussions are His Majesty’s Government having, bilaterally and multilaterally, with France, Germany - Speech Link
3: Lord Robathan (Con - Life peer) Are we pressing our allies, particularly France, Germany and the United States, to do more? - Speech Link
4: Lord Moore of Etchingham (Non-affiliated - Life peer) In Dover, they observed, there is a big pound of small boats seized from illegal immigrants as they arrive - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Janke (LD - Life peer) Israel is now pushing ahead with an additional 3,300 illegal settlements in the West Bank. - Speech Link
2: Lord McInnes of Kilwinning (Con - Life peer) While I understand that the UK-Armenian relationship is different from that of France and Armenia, where - Speech Link
3: Lord Wallace of Saltaire (LD - Life peer) American foreign policy was run by people from the Atlantic states, advised by first or second-generation immigrants - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Mar 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Meacher (XB - Life peer) My Lords, I do not think it is relevant to cite France. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Meyer (Con - Life peer) UNHCR representative’s conclusion, which I found most revealing, was that the UK should accept all immigrants - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) They also have to take account of Schengen.Take the case of France. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Butler-Sloss (XB - Life peer) When one starts complaining about people who should have stopped in France because France is a safe country - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) narrowly, so that most people do go to Rwanda, and therefore it is a definite deterrent to people leaving France - Speech Link
2: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) through modern social media et cetera to get across the message to the people who are at present in France - Speech Link
3: Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Lab - Life peer) They are being asked to do that to deter illegal immigration. - Speech Link
4: Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD - Life peer) It is not possible for that to happen under the Illegal Migration Act. - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) The Illegal Migration Act has a similar introductory section. - Speech Link
2: None The Labor Party in Australia has just reduced the cap on the number of immigrants allowed into that country - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) To Britain, whence they came—they are not applying for asylum here—or back to France, our great partner - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) France passed a measure on immigration, only to have the very amendments that had allowed it to pass, - Speech Link
5: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) action to tackle criminal gangs, including more co-operation with our European partners—particularly France—and - Speech Link