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Closed Petition closed 9th April 2024

Extend the Equality Act and hate crime legislation to cover immigration status - Final Signatures: 37

Currently the law does not specifically prevent discrimination on the basis of a person's immigration status, or treat crimes motivated by someone's immigration status as a hate crime. We want this to change.

Found: We want this legislation to be extended to include immigration status.


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 15 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Relevant documents: Second Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The amendment says that“Section 2 does not prevent…the Secretary of State or an immigration officer from - Speech Link
3: William Cash (Con - Stone) I was going to point out that section 57 of the Immigration Act 2023, to which the hon. - Speech Link
4: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) Human trafficking is not an immigration offence; it is an exploitation offence, and the two must not - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Committee stage part one - Mon 19 Feb 2024
Scotland Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) The Home Secretary, or an immigration officer, cannot consider an individual saying to them, “I will - Speech Link
2: None It points out that the Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration and the Chief Inspector of Prisons - Speech Link
3: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) My Lords, the purpose of this measure is to deter immigration by unsafe and illegal routes. - Speech Link
4: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) Saying so is not xenophobic or anti-immigration”. - Speech Link
5: Lord Green of Deddington (XB - Life peer) However, they are concerned about large-scale, illegal immigration into Britain, which is what I was - Speech Link


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

Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) In the words of the ex-immigration Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
2: Florence Eshalomi (LAB - Vauxhall) He was very helpful when he was the immigration Minister. - Speech Link
3: Nick Fletcher (Con - Don Valley) , including illegal immigration, because it is not fair. - Speech Link
4: Claire Hanna (SDLP - Belfast South) People often say, “You can’t even talk about immigration.” - Speech Link
5: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) I welcome the immigration Minister to his place. - Speech Link


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: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) It is clear that a global conversation and a European conversation are required about the immigration - Speech Link
3: Tim Loughton (Con - East Worthing and Shoreham) We have three problems with the immigration system in this country. - Speech Link
4: Tom Hunt (Con - Ipswich) Immigration at sustainable levels with integration is a force for good. - Speech Link
5: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Parliament and the British people want an end to illegal immigration, and we need a deterrent. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Mon 22 Apr 2024
No Department present

Mentions:
1: None Relevant documents: Second Report of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link
2: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) One hundred and thirty-four times it has told the British people that it opposes our tougher immigration - Speech Link
3: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) on behalf of His Majesty’s Government that we will consider how removal would apply under existing immigration - Speech Link
4: None The Government’s plan is, as the former Immigration Minister described it and as a civil servant insider - Speech Link
5: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) position, and will consider and revisit how the Illegal Migration Act 2023 and removal under existing immigration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration Act 2014 (Residential Accommodation) (Maximum Penalty) Order 2023 - Thu 18 Jan 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: None Immigration (Employment of Adults Subject to Immigration Control) (Maximum Penalty) (Amendment) Order - Speech Link


Non-Departmental Publication (Transparency)
UK Visas and Immigration

Feb. 29 2024

Source Page: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2023
Document: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2023 (webpage)

Found: Immigration and protection data: Q4 2023


Commons Chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Consideration of Lords messageConsideration of Lords Message - Wed 17 Apr 2024
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) policy review, announced on 19 February, has concluded, the Government will consider how to revisit our immigration - Speech Link
2: Sammy Wilson (DUP - East Antrim) themselves in danger as a result, have not been able to get easy access to the United Kingdom and get immigration - Speech Link
3: Stephen Kinnock (Lab - Aberavon) We know what the Bill is really about; the former Immigration Minister, the right hon. - Speech Link
4: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) am unable to make a statement that, in my view, the provisions of the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Immigration and Nationality (Fees) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2023 - Mon 04 Dec 2023
Home Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Lister of Burtersett (Lab - Life peer) ) (No. 2) Regulations 2023, which increase fees by above inflation for a range of immigration and nationality - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) Immigration and nationality fees can be set only within the limits specified by the Immigration and Nationality - Speech Link
3: None The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, asked me about the immigration health surcharge. - Speech Link
4: None It is about £2.8 billion, not including income from the immigration health surcharge. - Speech Link