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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: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) The Immigration Acts are listed in section 61(4) of the UK Borders Act 2007, as amended.Clause 3 stand - Speech Link
2: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) That could potentially mean that the detention of people awaiting removal to Rwanda and their treatment - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) We have three problems with the immigration system in this country. - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) This could potentially include a person’s detention and treatment prior to removal, meaning that not - Speech Link
5: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) Immigration at sustainable levels with integration is a force for good. - 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: Rosie Winterton (Lab - Doncaster Central) 18), and all matters, decisions, or conclusions reached in relation to their selection, processing, detention - Speech Link
2: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) reviewing not only the asylum claims of individuals being sent to Rwanda, but also claims for unlawful detention - Speech Link
3: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) details examples of the state prosecuting political opponents, deaths in police custody, unofficial detention - Speech Link
4: Miriam Cates (Con - Penistone and Stocksbridge) a poll published last night in The Telegraph, which showed that in nearly every constituency swift detention - Speech Link
5: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Docherty-Hughes) said in relation to India, where Jagtar Singh Johal is still being held in arbitrary detention - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration Detention: Brook House Inquiry - Thu 11 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) There are no plans to introduce a time limit on immigration detention. - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) My Lords, the inquiry exposed the dehumanising abuse of vulnerable people held in immigration detention - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the Government’s view is that a time limit on immigration detention would significantly impair - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (Con - Life peer) Will my noble friend the Minister agree that, in the case of immigration detention, it should always - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Amendment of List of Safe States) Regulations 2024 - Wed 10 Jan 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) I beg to move,That the Committee has considered the draft Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) in areas of conflict are also reported, including extra-judicial killings, rape, torture, arbitrary detention - Speech Link
3: Ben Bradshaw (Lab - Exeter) That includes arbitrary arrest and detention, and impunity for widespread human rights abuses including - 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) He is just desperately hoping, in the words of the former Immigration Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, which is the toughest immigration legislation ever - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The former Immigration Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) today.Having visited Tirana, Paris, Brussels, Calais, Belgian beaches, asylum seeker accommodation, detention - Speech Link
5: James Daly (Con - Bury North) transit programme, under which more than 3,000 people who were heading for Europe were moved from Libyan detention - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
2nd reading - Mon 18 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) Family lives are often shattered by these crimes.We also need an immigration firewall to ensure that - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) Added to this, the post-Brexit Immigration Rules, especially with the new salary threshold, act as a - Speech Link
3: Baroness Hamwee (LD - Life peer) On these Benches we did all we could to remove the immigration exemption from what became the Data Protection - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) For example, Victim Support argues that, without it, victims with insecure immigration status“will be - Speech Link
5: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) be subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment, and Article 5, the right in respect of arbitrary detention - 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) national security law coming in, we responded very quickly and decisively, in particular with the new immigration - Speech Link
2: Andrew Western (Lab - Stretford and Urmston) Mr Lai’s detention is a shocking symbol of the erosion not just of human rights but of freedom of expression - Speech Link
3: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) Those from Hong Kong face certain persecution, arrest and detention if they are forced to return. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 13 Dec 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Kirsten Oswald (SNP - East Renfrewshire) , in the challenges for disabled people in accessing employment, but also in other contexts such as immigration - Speech Link
2: Richard Fuller (Con - North East Bedfordshire) Every year, 800 women pass through immigration detention, including centres such as Yarl’s Wood in my - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) abuse are detained only when the evidence of vulnerability in their individual case is outweighed by immigration - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) The family immigration route does contain provision for exceptional circumstances, as the right hon. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Anne-Marie Trevelyan (Con - Berwick-upon-Tweed) ambassador has repeatedly raised this case with the Philippines Government, and visited her during her detention - Speech Link
2: Wendy Chamberlain (LD - North East Fife) agree that it is good news that Senator De Lima has been released on bail after nearly seven years of detention - Speech Link
3: Leo Docherty (Con - Aldershot) We condemn this outrageous detention, and we will continue to make representations in Moscow and elsewhere - Speech Link
4: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) UK Visas and Immigration advises travelling to the nearest visa application centre but that is impossible - Speech Link
5: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) This week it was announced that he had been detained for six months in administrative detention, and - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Debbie Abrahams (Lab - Oldham East and Saddleworth) He has often used the Australian model of offshoring detention centres as a gold standard. - Speech Link
2: Robert Jenrick (Con - Newark) Our detention capacity—just a few thousand spaces—will be full. - Speech Link
3: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) Too many of us have worked through that.We have a major problem with detention in this country, which - Speech Link