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Westminster Hall
Immigration Fees for Healthcare Workers - Mon 30 Jan 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Bell Ribeiro-Addy (LAB - Streatham) Some healthcare workers who are paid less are having to use food banks, and in-work poverty is even greater - Speech Link
2: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) health workers and ultimately, therefore, whether the fees that migrant health workers are required - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (LAB - Aberavon) That would also allow migrant workers more money in their pockets that they would spend in the local - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Skills and Labour Shortages - Thu 12 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Even a House of Lords report last month pointed to an increase in early retirement and changes to migrant - Speech Link
2: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Fabricant) echoed the Scottish Government’s calls for the Home Office to provide long-term stability for migrant - Speech Link
3: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) That impact has perhaps been escalated and exacerbated by covid; a lot of migrant workers went home as - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (LAB - Chesterfield) currently staying in a hotel when I am down in London, and virtually every person cleaning it has been a migrant - Speech Link
5: Kevin Hollinrake (CON - Thirsk and Malton) Member for Strangford raised the issue of skills in the food production sector. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
2nd reading - Mon 09 Jan 2023
Department for International Trade

Mentions:
1: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (LAB - Life peer) in this country there seems to have been no interchange with the TUC about the difficulties around migrant - Speech Link
2: Earl of Sandwich (CB - Excepted Hereditary) The noble Baroness, Lady Liddell, mentioned migrant workers which was extremely helpful because it has - Speech Link
3: Lord Johnson of Lainston (CON - Life peer) We have worked very closely with the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Seafarers’ Wages Bill [Lords] - Mon 19 Dec 2022
Department for Transport

Mentions:
1: Jackie Doyle-Price (CON - Thurrock) It is a fact that when we look at where companies are able to exploit migrant labour and other workers - Speech Link
2: Robert Courts (CON - Witney) whether there was covid or whether there was no covid, constantly working to make sure that we had the food - Speech Link
3: John McDonnell (LAB - Hayes and Harlington) As a result, it was able to exploit workers. - Speech Link
4: Mike Kane (LAB - Wythenshawe and Sale East) The maritime sector is responsible for transporting 90% of global trade and supplying the world with food - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy - Fri 09 Dec 2022
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Sahota (LAB - Life peer) They are forced to beg and use food banks to survive. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Leicester (Bishops - Bishops) Leicester there are those from our churches who visit people in these hotels to provide clothing and food - Speech Link
3: Lord Horam (CON - Life peer) am particularly appalled by the recruitment teams that leave the UK to hire doctors, nurses and care workers - Speech Link
4: Lord Murray of Blidworth (CON - Life peer) notable force for change in the health sector, through her work with Diabetes UK and Action Against Food - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Barry Sheerman (LAB - Huddersfield) I am frightened that little children will go to bed this winter with no food in their tummy and no heat - Speech Link
2: Clive Efford (LAB - Eltham) jailed in Qatar for whistleblowing and taking part in an ITV documentary about the mistreatment of migrant - Speech Link
3: Gerald Jones (LAB - Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney) The position is very unsatisfactory, and the Government really must do more to support postal workers - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
International Human Rights Day - Thu 08 Dec 2022
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Margaret Ferrier (IND - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) the initiation of meaningful political dialogue.I also highlight the exploitative practices against migrant - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Corbyn (IND - Islington North) Integrate the missing migrant issue into continental, regional and national policy and cooperation frameworks - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 07 Dec 2022
Attorney General

Mentions:
1: Angela Crawley (SNP - Lanark and Hamilton East) Safeguards protecting against gender-based violence must be extended to migrant women. - Speech Link
2: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) Minister in Gordon Brown’s Government, who just said, “Why does the Labour party refuse to stand up for workers - Speech Link
3: Ian Byrne (LAB - Liverpool, West Derby) national food strategy and the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food called for universal - Speech Link
4: Rishi Sunak (CON - Richmond (Yorks)) at the time was working as hard and as quickly as they could to get the PPE needed for our frontline workers - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 30 Nov 2022
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Jo Gideon (CON - Stoke-on-Trent Central) levelling up, so areas such as Stoke-on-Trent, where we have significant issues with affordable, healthy food - Speech Link
2: Anneliese Dodds (LAB - Oxford East) Qatar’s record on LGBT+ rights, women’s rights and the treatment of migrant workers means that it should - Speech Link
3: Michael Fabricant (CON - Lichfield) Friend the Minister for Women and Equalities will have seen in the news today that between 400 and 500 migrant - Speech Link
4: Ian Blackford (SNP - Ross, Skye and Lochaber) ’ rights, food standards and environmental protections. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Autumn Statement 2022 - Tue 29 Nov 2022
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Eatwell (LAB - Life peer) Well over a million British workers are “missing” from the labour force. - Speech Link
2: Lord Bishop of Gloucester (Bishops - Bishops) For reasons we know, food prices have soared well above inflation, and it would also seem that food supplies - Speech Link
3: Baroness Kramer (LDEM - Life peer) cope with the churn of workers who come for just four years; they want workers who stay long-term. - Speech Link