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Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
2nd reading - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) immigrants use to stay in the United Kingdom. - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) Belfast is the second city of the United Kingdom when it comes to the number of immigrants being housed - Speech Link
3: James Daly (Con - Bury North) We saw that immigrants are housed in tents, and they are treated in the most appalling manner. - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Over decades, immigrants have contributed so much to the country that we enjoy today, not least to our - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Net Migration - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) enormous expenditure there will be on infrastructure, hospitals and so on in return for a large number of immigrants - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) My Lords, I have enormous respect for the noble Lord, but these asylum seekers are illegal migrants. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Smith of Newnham (LD - Life peer) My Lords, the Minister suggested that people coming on boats are illegal by definition. - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Why would they be leaving France, which is a safe country, to come here on a boat? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2023 - Wed 29 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) to have the second-lowest government debt in the G7; that is lower than the United States, Canada, France - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (Con - Life peer) But the measures to ensure that was the case have consequences.This has all been compounded by the illegal - Speech Link
3: Lord Frost (Con - Life peer) effective stick of reducing welfare for people who choose not to work.We are sucking in huge numbers of immigrants - Speech Link
4: Baroness Vere of Norbiton (Con - Life peer) of where we are.We have faced a global pandemic and global economic headwinds generated by Putin’s illegal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Justification Decision (Scientific Age Imaging) Regulations 2023 - Mon 27 Nov 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Despite substantial discussions on amendments during passage of the Illegal Migration Bill, many of which - Speech Link
2: None It is evident from both the Bill’s Explanatory Notes and the CRIA from the then Illegal Migration Bill - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) On Report on the Illegal Migration Bill, the noble Lord, Lord Murray, as my noble friend said, talked - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) explain why scientific methods are used to assess age in, among other countries, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Mon 13 Nov 2023
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Gascoigne (Con - Life peer) still needs to be done.The third, and most important to me, is conservation: tackling the evils of the illegal - Speech Link
2: Duke of Wellington (XB - Excepted Hereditary) Equally, the Environment Agency had not been aware for years of the level of illegal discharges and the - Speech Link
3: Viscount Trenchard (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Why can we not be more like France in this regard? - Speech Link
4: Lord Horam (Con - Life peer) Even now, Jeremy Hunt will say that 50,000 more immigrants will give him an extra 0.1% growth in GDP—at - Speech Link
5: Baroness Penn (Con - Life peer) But in March of that year, we faced a further global shock after Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
King’s Speech - Wed 08 Nov 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) countries; reform resettlement routes to stop people being exploited by gangs; reach new agreements with France - Speech Link
2: Lord Beith (LD - Life peer) We are simply told that the Government will deliver on the Illegal Migration Act and stop illegal channel - Speech Link
3: Lord Bailey of Paddington (Con - Life peer) supernatural ability to discern when I am lost.I stand among your Lordships today as the grandson of immigrants - Speech Link
4: Lord Dholakia (LD - Life peer) have 132 people in prison for every 100,000 people in our general population, compared with 100 in France - Speech Link
5: Lord Hacking (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) Take, for example, the Illegal Migration Bill. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 17 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) each and every country that shares our determination to tackle this issue, from Turkey and Tunisia to France - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) They were in France, which is clearly a safe country that has a fully functioning asylum system. - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) Conservative Members refuse to make that connection, but we know it is in the interests of the EU and France - Speech Link
4: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) immigrants on small boats have taken all the capacity of local authorities to house them. - Speech Link
5: Robert Jenrick (CON - Newark) create a massive pull factor by giving economic migrants crossing the channel from a safe place such as France - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill - Tue 11 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None deterring people who arrive via illegal routes. - Speech Link
2: Laura Farris (CON - Newbury) Bill and, by extension, the Rwanda scheme is to remove illegal immigrants quickly without prejudice to - Speech Link
3: Tim Farron (LDEM - Westmorland and Lonsdale) I often hear Members on the Government Benches say, “France is a safe country, why don’t people stay - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (CON - Ipswich) Labour Members say, “We have to do more to talk to France”. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage - Wed 05 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (CB - Life peer) It does not suggest we take up the French offer of a processing centre in France, although for the life - Speech Link
2: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) If not, it will do little or nothing to stop the boats coming from France. - Speech Link
3: None crossings or migratory figures unless we know the total number of immigrants we already have in this - Speech Link
4: Lord Garnier (CON - Life peer) I accept that counting the number of illegal immigrants in the United Kingdom presents one or two more - Speech Link
5: Lord Paddick (LDEM - Life peer) immigrants in this country—his amendment is not germane to the Bill. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Illegal Migration Bill
Report stage: Part 1 - Mon 03 Jul 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Haskel (LAB - Life peer) My Lords, before the House resumes consideration of the Illegal Migration Bill on Report, we come to - Speech Link
2: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) The duty on the Home Secretary to make arrangements for the removal of all illegal entrants back to their - Speech Link
3: Lord Green of Deddington (CB - Life peer) point out that we face a very difficult policy problem, with serious effects on public opinion towards immigrants - Speech Link
4: Lord Lilley (CON - Life peer) Why do we reject only 25% of claims for asylum, whereas France rejects 75%? - Speech Link
5: Baroness Lawlor (CON - Life peer) It would undermine the purpose of the measure to prevent and deter illegal and unsafe routes. - Speech Link