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Departmental Publication (Statistics)
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

May. 16 2024

Source Page: Climate Finance Accelerator (CFA): evaluation
Document: (PDF)

Found: These habitats will comprise affordable housing units intended for low -income families, aiming to address

Select Committee
Submission on the Immigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2024 and government response

Scrutiny evidence May. 16 2024

Committee: Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee

Found: the Joint Inquiry into the Use of Immigra�on Deten�on in the United Kingdom (2015) by the APPG on Refugees

Written Question
Refugees: Afghanistan
Thursday 16th May 2024

Asked by: Anneliese Dodds (Labour (Co-op) - Oxford East)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, pursuant to the Answer of 19 April 2024 to Question 22008 on Refugees: Afghanistan, what his planned timetable is for establishing a route for separated families to be reunited.

Answered by Tom Pursglove - Minister of State (Minister for Legal Migration and Delivery)

In October we committed to establishing a route for those evacuated from Afghanistan under Pathway 1 of the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme without their immediate family members to reunite them in the UK. We remain on track to meet that commitment in the first half of this year. Further details and guidance will be provided in due course.

Parliamentary Research
Refugees and the UK's international aid response - CBP-10024
May. 15 2024

Found: Refugees and the UK's international aid response

Select Committee
UNICEF UK
 CCS0036 - Climate change and security

Written Evidence May. 15 2024

Inquiry: Climate change and security
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Environmental Audit Committee

Found: Children and families in poverty have less resources and capacities to adapt to a changing climate

Select Committee
Government Response to the Committee's report on the UK-Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership

Government Response May. 15 2024

Committee: International Agreements Committee

Found: Rwanda hosts over 135,000 refugees and asylum seekers and, in addition, was chosen by the UNHCR to host

Lords Chamber
UNRWA - Wed 15 May 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) closure of the East Jerusalem headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) I have met with many hostage families and a recent comment that I heard was that there are 25 nationalities - Speech Link

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

Mentions:
1: Ian Byrne (Lab - Liverpool, West Derby) agree that that delay from the Government is shameful, and that the Healthy Start scheme that provides families - Speech Link
2: Beth Winter (Lab - Cynon Valley) has said, they should open access to the Healthy Start scheme to all low-income pregnant women and families - Speech Link
3: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) principle is that migrants coming to the UK should be able to maintain and support themselves and their families - Speech Link
4: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) In particular, we work with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to support the most vulnerable - Speech Link

Select Committee
Anti-trafficking Monitoring Group
 MSA0039 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

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

Found: asylum to Rwanda unlawful, in part because it does not consider Rwanda a safe country to remove refugees

Select Committee
Joint Modern Slavery Policy Unit of Justice and Care and the Centre for Social Justice
 MSA0037 - Modern Slavery Act 2015

Written Evidence May. 14 2024

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

Found: There is also a ripple effect spreading the harm to families, neighbours and wider communities.