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Westminster Hall
Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenian Refugees - Tue 19 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Carol Monaghan (SNP - Glasgow North West) We heard how the shelling started at 12.30 pm, when children were at school and separated from their - Speech Link
2: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) Those new arrivals from Nagorno-Karabakh include 30,000 children and 18,000 aged over 65. - Speech Link
3: Jessica Morden (Lab - Newport East) We heard of mothers who boiled sweets to get sugar into their children, and reports of Russian peacekeepers - Speech Link
4: Stephen Doughty (LAB - Cardiff South and Penarth) More than half of those refugees are women and girls, nearly one third are children, and nearly one fifth - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords amendments - Mon 18 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) There are more than 135,000 refugees safely in Rwanda and being looked after. - Speech Link
2: Alexander Stafford (Con - Rother Valley) We have already discussed checks on whether people are children. - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) people and more than 36 million refugees in the world. - Speech Link
4: Jim Shannon (DUP - Strangford) We will get his children integrated into school, because we have done that already with Syrian refugees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Asylum and Migration - Thu 14 Mar 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) It has worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to support more than 130,000 refugees - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) were broadly experienced as degrading and dehumanising, especially for mothers unable to feed their children - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) It is completely unsuitable to have children in hotels for years at a time, when they have to go to school - Speech Link
4: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) the Home Office has invariably gone for low-hanging fruit—some of the easier cases to accept, such as children - Speech Link
5: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Looking at the figures for displaced people and refugees, there are 36 million refugees in the world. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Housing: Young People - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities

Mentions:
1: Baroness Donaghy (Lab - Life peer) It used to be when the children were approaching secondary school. - Speech Link
2: Lord Best (XB - Life peer) I detect signs that the Government are recognising the value of this approach: a fund mostly for refugees - Speech Link
3: Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab - Life peer) and other minority ethnic groups, young people from the LGBT+ community and young asylum seekers and refugees - Speech Link
4: Baroness Scott of Bybrook (Con - Life peer) Children of home owners are over twice as likely to be home owners than children of renters—an issue - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Thu 14 Mar 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) Crown Prosecution Service is taking to prosecute people for the trafficking of vulnerable adults and children - Speech Link
2: Deidre Brock (SNP - Edinburgh North and Leith) number of potential UK victims of modern slavery reached a record level, with referrals for women and children - Speech Link
3: Karl Turner (Lab - Kingston upon Hull East) Perhaps that is why the Government have changed tack and plan a £3,000 incentive for refugees to get - Speech Link
4: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Does the Solicitor General not understand that modern slavery protections for vulnerable children and - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Victims and Prisoners Bill - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Ministry of Justice

Mentions:
1: None statement This amendment would halve the qualifying period for men and women who were sentenced as children - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) These amendments concern men and women who were sentenced to indeterminate detention when they were children - Speech Link
3: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (Con - Life peer) They are children, as she pointed out. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Chakrabarti (Lab - Life peer) empathy that I rarely hear about any demonised group in our society, whether it is convicted people, refugees - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Alex Sobel (LAB - Leeds North West) If he will resume funding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the - Speech Link
2: Paul Blomfield (Lab - Sheffield Central) For months we have seen the horrifying images of children in Gaza mutilated or killed by bombing, and - Speech Link
3: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) There are now testimonies from Palestinian civilians, including women and children, who have been subject - Speech Link
4: Ranil Jayawardena (Con - North East Hampshire) Last week, 287 children aged between five and 12 were kidnapped from their school in Nigeria. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Haiti - Tue 12 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Bellingham (Con - Life peer) he look back on the lessons to be learned from the 2010 earthquake, which triggered at least 2,500 refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Cashman (Lab - Life peer) The UN estimates that nearly 400,000 people have been displaced internally since 2021, half of them children - Speech Link
3: Viscount Waverley (XB - Excepted Hereditary) shares a border with Haiti is the Dominican Republic, which has a record of sending back into Haiti the refugees - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
International Women’s Day - Fri 08 Mar 2024
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Lord Bishop of Southwark (Bshp - Bishops) The drop to 0.5% is exacerbated by the fact that domestic spending on refugees is allowed out of the - Speech Link
2: Lord Addington (LD - Excepted Hereditary) He said, “Let’s help children abroad improve their educational standards. - Speech Link
3: Lord Young of Norwood Green (Lab - Life peer) It is not easy bringing up children and being a working woman. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Business of the House - Thu 07 Mar 2024
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) where Labour left us: compared with today, that is a million more workless households, 400,000 more children - Speech Link
2: Afzal Khan (Lab - Manchester, Gorton) Can we have an urgent debate in Government time on the support offered to newly recognised refugees? - Speech Link
3: Patricia Gibson (SNP - North Ayrshire and Arran) Scotland also has the largest free book giveaway for children of any nation on Earth through the Bookbug - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) who are disproportionately affected because of other issues, including cancer patients, looked-after children - Speech Link
5: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) The number of pensioners living in absolute poverty has reduced by 200,000, and the number of children - Speech Link