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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) they then turn a blind eye to South Africa’s horrendous record of corruption, massacres of its own workers - Speech Link
2: Baroness Kennedy of Shaws (Lab - Life peer) criticised Kagame.In 2018, 12 Congolese asylum seekers who made a peaceful protest about the rotting food - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) made by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees when speaking to the BBC last week.Words matter, as the Migrant - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Baroness Thornton (Lab - Life peer) We want that to be included in the Bill.Finally, there is the issue of migrant domestic abuse victims - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Newcastle (Bshp - Bishops) Migrant women who face abuse and violence in the United Kingdom need access to a permanent, long-term - Speech Link
3: Lord Sandhurst (Con - Excepted Hereditary) It uses crime victims assistance centres and carefully trained workers to prepare adult victims who will - Speech Link
4: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) SBS is delivering the official support for the migrant victims pilot scheme to support women with no - Speech Link
5: Lord Garnier (Con - Life peer) this corruption occurs in African countries that are already suffering terrible economic hardship from food - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: George Howarth (Lab - Knowsley) on our provision of public services such as health and housing, as well as affecting the important food - Speech Link
2: Conor Burns (Con - Bournemouth West) Labour were promising to establish a points-based system, stating:“We will ensure that only skilled workers - Speech Link
3: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (Lab - Streatham) Food bank use is at an all-time high, and workers have not had a decent pay rise in 15 years. - Speech Link
4: Jerome Mayhew (Con - Broadland) It is not that the capacity of Rwanda has to accept every single migrant who currently comes across the - Speech Link
5: Richard Graham (Con - Gloucester) the combination of civil wars, mismanagement, instability, insecurity, climate change challenges and food - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Immigration (Health Charge) (Amendment) Order 2023 - Tue 12 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Brinton (LD - Life peer) He explains that the family cannot afford a car or taxis, because that“money is needed to buy food or - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It then talks about exemptions for “certain NHS workers”. Who are those “certain NHS workers”? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) Equally, however, I have to condemn the actions of the Israeli forces when we see the denial of food - Speech Link
2: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) It must show concern about environmental protections and workers’ rights. - Speech Link
3: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) We also condemn the disproportionate use of force by Israel—the use of access to water, food, medicines - Speech Link
4: Patrick Grady (SNP - Glasgow North) A child experiencing severe malnutrition in a famine-hit country still has a right to food and clean - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Legal Migration - Tue 05 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Approximately 120,000 dependants accompanied 100,000 care workers and senior care workers in the year - Speech Link
2: Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede (Lab - Life peer) and pay people in the UK properly, leading to a skills shortage and a low-wage economy that relies on migrant - Speech Link
3: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Will an existing migrant worker’s salary have to rise in order to extend their visa? - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) dependants and requiring social care firms in England to be CQC registered before they can sponsor migrant - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill
Report stage - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None intervention to the fact that the Government have overturned the wrongful convictions of Post Office workers - Speech Link
2: Sarah Champion (Lab - Rotherham) Amendment 149 seeks to address that.Another concern is that the Bill will not fully support all migrant - Speech Link
3: Christine Jardine (LD - Edinburgh West) New clause 28 would make it easier for migrant women to make a complaint about domestic abuse without - Speech Link
4: Apsana Begum (Lab - Poplar and Limehouse) Police forces share migrant victims’ data with immigration enforcement, which stops migrants from reporting - Speech Link
5: Edward Argar (Con - Charnwood) Let me be clear that the Government and the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Legal Migration - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: James Cleverly (Con - Braintree) Approximately 120,000 dependants accompanied 100,000 care workers and senior care workers in the year - Speech Link
2: George Eustice (Con - Camborne and Redruth) That makes it difficult to recruit the people we do need: care workers; people in the food industry and - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) I know the invaluable contribution that overseas care workers make. - Speech Link
4: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) response to Unison, the social care trade union, which says:“The care system would implode without migrant - Speech Link
5: Richard Drax (Con - South Dorset) two very high-ranking officials were unable at a parliamentary Committee to answer basic questions on migrant - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
National Health Service: 75th Anniversary - Thu 30 Nov 2023
Department of Health and Social Care

Mentions:
1: Baroness Walmsley (LD - Life peer) On the other hand, we have a high level of health inequality and poverty, and a food system that does - Speech Link
2: Lord Prentis of Leeds (Lab - Life peer) These are workers who were on the front line during the long months of the Covid crisis. - Speech Link
3: Lord Allan of Hallam (LD - Life peer) get me back to work quickly because it needed me there, but I was much more interested in the free food - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Living in a COVID World: A Long-term Approach to Resilience and Wellbeing (COVID-19 Committee Report) - Wed 29 Nov 2023
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho (XB - Life peer) making the choice, quite literally, between getting data to be able to function in a lockdown and buying food - Speech Link
2: Baroness Coussins (XB - Life peer) whether information in the right languages, or up-to-date information at all, was available via the Migrant - Speech Link
3: Baroness Merron (Lab - Life peer) the emergency—in this case, the pandemic—from local councils through to the emergency services, NHS workers - Speech Link
4: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) They delivered drugs and donated food to some of the poorest in our area and prioritising deliveries - Speech Link