Asylum & Refugees
Asylum seekers, refugee resettlement, asylum hotels
Recent PMQs Questions
View all 81PMQs 2026-07-15
With small boat crossings down more than 40% this year, does the Prime Minister think it is time to establish a safe and legal route for immigrants?...
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Stoke Heath will see an increase of 121 asylum seekers within weeks, equivalent to a massive population surge. This level of dispersal into a small rural area seems unfair. Is the Deputy Prime Ministe...
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The Prime Minister will be aware of Lorraine Cox, a resident of Exeter who in 2020 was murdered by a man whose asylum claim had been denied but who was not removed from this country. Will the Prime Mi...
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For months, our communities in Epping have been deeply distressed by the Bell hotel reopening as an asylum hotel. My thoughts remain with the victims of the sexual assaults, including the 14-year-old ...
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As the UK’s first borough of sanctuary, Lewisham has a proud history of welcoming people fleeing conflict, persecution and instability. Our council works closely with support organisations to help tho...
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We have in our NHS many brilliant émigré and refugee surgeons from the greatly troubled middle east, and I have been privileged to work alongside some of them from Iran, Iraq and from Syria, which we ...
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The Prime Minister says that he wants to smash the gangs; the only thing he has smashed is his own reputation. What he has been agreeing is not going to do anything. The cost of the Iraq agreement is ...
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In Gaza, Israel has attacked hospitals, refugee camps, and killed aid workers. Why does the Prime Minister allow Israel to get away with it unchallenged? And why does he continue to act as a bystander...
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When it comes to small boat crossings, there is a lot of talk of human rights, but surely the only human right and life that matters is the life of children who are being taken across the channel. In ...
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The whole country knows that removing less than 1% of asylum seekers is not stopping the boats; it is granting an amnesty—a Tory amnesty. If the Prime Minister thinks the voters are wrong, that his ow...
Recent Ministerial Questions
View all 546Ukrainian Refugees 2026-07-13
I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. There is some scepticism among the public about refugees, but despite the fact that twice as many people came to this coun...
Ukrainian Refugees 2026-07-13
If she will take steps to provide Ukrainian refugees with a route to permanent settlement. The Government remain grateful to the British public for the generosity shown to Ukrainians who sought sanctu...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
I welcome the Minister's explicit statement last month that he wants to see the Cladhan hotel, which was opened by the Conservatives, closed. When any hotel closes, will he confirm that the vast major...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
I thank the Asylum Minister for his professional courtesy in calling me on Friday to say that the asylum dispersal plans for Stoke Heath in my constituency have now been scrapped. I am grateful for th...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
I want to begin by thanking Madam Deputy Speaker, my hon. Friend the Member for Sussex Weald (Ms Ghani), for securing a meeting with the Minister, local MPs, councillors and residents of Crowborough, ...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
On Friday I met members of Barnham parish council in my constituency and the headteacher of the adjacent primary school, Amy. They raised concerns about the proposed accommodation of large numbers of ...
Topical Questions 2026-07-13
The Home Secretary is boasting about the fact that hotel asylum seekers' numbers are being reduced, but of course, they are being moved into houses in multiple occupation and the Government will not p...
Asylum Hotels 2026-07-13
Given the high costs, is the Home Secretary planning to activate break clauses in these expensive contracts? The right hon. Member for Makerfield has expressed an ambition to do so if he becomes Prime...
Asylum Hotels 2026-07-13
Can she give an update on the closure of any of the asylum hotels in Bournemouth? The MP has previously asked for updates on 5 January, 9 February, 9 March, and 8 June....
Asylum Hotels 2026-07-13
Will she now rule out RAF Linton-on-Ouse as an inappropriate site because of the proximity to a primary school? The concern is for community cohesion and appropriate placement of asylum seekers....