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Select Committee
Migration Advisory Committee, Institute of Public Policy Research, Migration Observatory, Reunite Families UK, Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), and Social Market Foundation

Oral Evidence May. 15 2024

Committee: Home Affairs Committee (Department: Home Office)

Found: As you say, part of that was because we decided to be generous to Ukraine and Hong Kong.


Westminster Hall
No Recourse to Public Funds - Wed 15 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) Breaks in leave to remain mean that children can spend almost all their childhood in poverty. - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) practice, that means that migrants with permission under the family or private life routes, or the Hong - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
China - Wed 15 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Bob Seely (Con - Isle of Wight) Many Chinese oppose the Chinese Communist party, as indeed do many tens of thousands of brave Hong Kong - Speech Link
2: Neil Coyle (Lab - Bermondsey and Old Southwark) Kong specifically and the Government’s responsibility to Hong Kong nationals and those seeking British - Speech Link
3: Mark Logan (Con - Bolton North East) Member raises a fantastic point explicitly on Hong Kong. - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) As I have mentioned, the Minister for the Indo-Pacific visited China and Hong Kong last month. - Speech Link


Select Committee
UCL (University College London)
MSA0048 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

Inquiry: Modern Slavery Act 2015
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Modern Slavery Act 2015 Committee

Found: or persecution (notable exceptions being humanitarian visa provisions for those from Ukraine and Hong


Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Home Office

May. 14 2024

Source Page: Student visa: Views of students and higher education institutions
Document: (ODS)

Found: How many children do you have as dependants on your visa? September - December 2023 Table 40 D6.


Commons Chamber
War Graves Week - Tue 14 May 2024
Ministry of Defence

Mentions:
1: Philip Dunne (Con - Ludlow) programme of events in both the UK and France on 5 and 6 June involving veterans, serving personnel and children - Speech Link
2: Allan Dorans (SNP - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) It involves local children in various projects, including the production of brightly painted poppy stones - Speech Link
3: Jeremy Quin (Con - Horsham) The same is true of the solitary grave of Ronald Maxwell of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, who - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Russia - Tue 14 May 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) from Iranian-sponsored “kidnap and kill” threats to attacks on so-called dissidents, the repression of Hong - Speech Link
2: Lord Pickles (Con - Life peer) My Lords, on using Russian assets, there still remains the appalling war crime of 19,600 children who - Speech Link
3: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Of course, our sympathies go to the parents of those children. Is there much else that I can say? - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Palestinians: Visa Scheme - Mon 13 May 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: John Cryer (Lab - Leyton and Wanstead) When there were crises in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Hong Kong, schemes, whatever their merits, were set - Speech Link
2: Cat Smith (Lab - Lancaster and Fleetwood) As with those from Hong Kong and Ukraine, we can see a very clear need for a visa scheme for Palestinians - Speech Link
3: Joanna Cherry (SNP - Edinburgh South West) Where Afghanistan and Hong Kong were concerned, we had particular historic and moral responsibilities - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Statistics)
UK Health Security Agency

May. 07 2024

Source Page: Communal accommodation settings: infectious disease transmission
Document: (PDF)

Found: with households of less than 3 children = 1.7, 95% CI: 1.0 to 2.9, p=0.052).


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Wed 01 May 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: John Lamont (Con - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk) The countries with which we already have arrangements include Andorra, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, - Speech Link
2: Liz Twist (Lab - Blaydon) agree that the Scottish Government have given up on governing and given up on the future of Scottish children - Speech Link
3: Rishi Sunak (Con - Richmond (Yorks)) purchases, but improve funding for trading standards to clamp down on those selling vapes illegally to children - Speech Link
4: Andrew Selous (Con - South West Bedfordshire) extremely welcome, but challenges around the recruitment of community paediatricians mean that some children - Speech Link
5: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) apologise for that former practice, which left grieving parents with nowhere to visit their buried children - Speech Link