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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


Westminster Hall
Deportation of Foreign National Offenders - Wed 07 Feb 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Rachel Maclean (Con - Redditch) Take the EU: 2.3 million immigrants entered the bloc from non-EU countries in 2021, an increase of almost - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) The Act addresses not just the causes, but how we bring greater efficiency to the illegal migration system - Speech Link
3: Jonathan Gullis (Con - Stoke-on-Trent North) migrants choosing to come from safe mainland France and arriving undocumented on the shores of our country - Speech Link


Grand Committee
General Aviation (Persons on Board, Flight Information and Civil Penalties) Regulations 2024 - Tue 30 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Presumably, for the other way around, people in this sector in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and so - Speech Link
2: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) something about the boats, I think there will be an incentive to look to general aviation to bring more illegal - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Lord Baker of Dorking (Con - Life peer) The governors in the southern states have now loaded busload after busload of immigrants and sent them - Speech Link
2: Baroness Fairhead (XB - Life peer) But this hard-earned reputation is now at risk.Although sending immigrants to safe countries is well - Speech Link
3: Baroness Verma (Con - Life peer) I am an immigrant, the daughter of immigrants and the granddaughter of immigrants. - Speech Link
4: Lord Wilson of Dinton (XB - Life peer) Thatcher’s meetings, I minuted a meeting discussing the Immigration Act 1988, which required polygamous immigrants - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement - Mon 22 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) immigrants coming by extremely dangerous means into the United Kingdom.As the noble and learned Lord - Speech Link
2: Baroness O'Loan (XB - Life peer) In contrast, some 25,000 illegal immigrants arrived in small boats last year. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) France, Italy and Germany face the same problem. - 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) Germany takes four times more asylum seekers than the UK, France two and a half times more and Spain - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) On the point about declaring a country safe, France, Germany and other EU countries have decided they - Speech Link
3: John Hayes (Con - South Holland and The Deepings) Certainly, we offer asylum to more applicants than France. - Speech Link
4: None migration to secure, in particular, the ports and railheads in northern France has contributed to the - Speech Link
5: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) immigrants to get on to lorries or on to the Eurostar—that goes back almost a decade, in fact. - 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: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants has highlighted the impact that all of that has had on - Speech Link
2: None Let us suppose that I am an illegal migrant who has paid all this money to get through France. - Speech Link
3: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) immigrants, and make sure we have an option and a deterrence that will almost certainly work? - Speech Link
4: Lia Nici (Con - Great Grimsby) Perhaps I am being facetious, but seeing as so many illegal migrants are fleeing France, should we think - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Immigration Act 2014 (Residential Accommodation) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2023 Draft Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Mon 15 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) things more illegal.It feels fairly unlikely that channel crossings would be deterred if only immigrants - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) Illegal working and renting are the main incentives for illegal migration and often involve exploitation - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) the UK at the higher range of sanctions applied across international comparators, including France, Germany - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Parliamentary Democracy and Standards in Public Life - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Baroness Featherstone (LD - Life peer) There is hatred of other—foreigners, immigrants, scroungers, Muslims, Jews, the rich, the lazy, the lucky - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) We are seeing it in France, Germany and the United States, where ex-President Trump says he wants to - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Cookham (Con - Life peer) to prison and Sunak accusing Labour of being in cahoots with criminal gangs in the perpetuation of illegal - Speech Link
4: Lord Newby (LD - Life peer) We should take a leaf out of the book of Ireland, France, Canada and elsewhere and introduce citizens - Speech Link