Ukraine

First, it is important to recognise that the British Government are the first Government to outli...

The women and children fleeing Ukraine are seeking refuge from a war in a member state of the Cou...

My right hon. Friend summarises the situation very clearly and correctly. That is exactly what we...

To be fair, that is certainly better than what was said yesterday. Yet again, at a time of humani...

I have to say that I find the hon. Gentleman’s comments quite offensive. They are insulting in ev...

Get on with your job.

Order. Mr MacNeil, I expect better. You have been chirping—[Interruption.] Let me finish. I do no...

Thank you, Mr Speaker. You effectively asked the hon. Member for Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Angus Bren...

They’re not offensive; they’re reasonable.

They are offensive and not reasonable. I am very sorry that the SNP does not want to listen to a ...

I want to get everyone in, so let us help each other because this is a very important statement. ...

I welcome the Home Secretary’s response to the calls for generosity from many of us, which is wha...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am frequently in touch with Commissioner Johansson on...

I thank the Home Secretary for making this statement after the confusion following yesterday’s at...

I will be very frank: we do not know at this stage. The Secretary of State for Levelling Up will ...

I heartily congratulate my right hon. Friend on a compassionate and balanced response, reflecting...

My right hon. Friend is right. I spoke to the Ukrainian ambassador prior to coming to the House, ...

There are two mothers and three children who have now reached Poland, having fled the violence in...

The answer is yes. Would the right hon. Gentleman like to send me the details?

indicated assent.

Thank you.

In a letter that I and more than 40 colleagues from the one nation caucus wrote to the Prime Mini...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. I pay tribute to him and thank him for his work and sup...

I think we need to stand united—end of. The Government have said, quite rightly, that they want t...

The hon. Member makes a valid point, as ever—I worked with him on such issues in the past on the ...

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. Conservative Members are particularly pleased ...

I thank my right hon. and learned Friend—he is a great friend on this and many other issues. Sadl...

May I associate myself with the measured and well made comments from my hon. Friend the Member fo...

There are a number of measures, and it is not just about Border Force—this is a conversation I ha...

These welcome efforts will put huge extra strain on the Home Secretary’s Department. May I urge h...

I thank my right hon. Friend for that important point. The Afghanistan resettlement and the pligh...

My constituent’s mother went to the visa centre in Kyiv on 16 February 2021 to deliver her biomet...

I cannot answer on the specifics of that case, but if the hon. Gentleman emails the details to me...

May I strongly commend my right hon. Friend for her tremendous work in this field? She has enormo...

I thank my hon. Friend for his comments and for his absolute support on this, and he is absolutel...

Over the weekend the Prime Minister evoked the parable of the good Samaritan when he visited a Uk...

This statement is specifically about Ukraine, and the measures I have announced today will build ...

I warmly welcome the changes that the Home Secretary has set out, and I say gently to SNP Members...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right, and I thank him for his comments and understanding on t...

I note the very strong emphasis on community sponsorship in the Home Secretary’s statement. I am ...

I come back to my earlier remarks about working with the diaspora community. This is something th...

I commend my right hon. Friend on what I think is the right approach. I listened with surprise to...

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. Again, having a united response on this is really impor...

What a lot of people do not understand, including me, Secretary of State, is why it is not possib...

I have made my point on security checks. We have been the target, basically, of Putin’s Russia. O...

I welcome the offer that the Home Secretary has announced to the Ukrainian people at this moment ...

Of course. I say to all Members of the House who have cases coming to them that, as I have said, ...

Receiving refugees here is the first step; how we treat them once they get here is just as import...

I absolutely understand and hear the points that the hon. Gentleman is making, with his experienc...

Following on from the question of the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), can my rig...

I give my hon. Friend that reassurance. This is a whole-of-Government effort. As I think I mentio...

The Secretary of State alluded to the sponsorship pathway. Will she have discussions with the dev...

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. At a time such as this, there should be no room for po...

Everybody wants to be humanitarian, and the Home Secretary is under pressure to have a visa-free ...

My right hon. Friend makes some important points about the balanced and pragmatic approach that w...

I have a constituent living here with his Ukrainian spouse of 22 years who wants to offer his hom...

As I said, if the hon. Lady wants to send me the details we will look into that.

I think most of my constituents would like us to be generous with the sanctuary that we offer to ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I want to come back to a point I made earlier on. The situati...

As the Home Secretary knows, and I am glad she has already mentioned it, I have a constituent, De...

That is a case that the hon. Gentleman has already been in touch with me about. We are looking in...

I am very grateful to the Home Secretary for coming to the House at the earliest opportunity to u...

We discuss all issues, some of which I cannot share on the Floor of the House because they are ve...

Someone very dear to me who helped to raise me and who came to this country from Ukraine after th...

I refer the hon. Lady to what I have said already in the House about the practical routes we are ...

I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement and for highlighting the vital work being done beh...

My hon. Friend highlights brilliantly the generosity of the British people in her own constituenc...

Millions of people across the country are desperate to help Ukrainians fleeing Putin’s monstrous ...

I am not even going to address the points the hon. Gentleman has made. I have spoken very clearly...

I very much welcome the announcement today. Community sponsorship is absolutely the right approac...

That is an excellent suggestion, and I will take it back to colleagues in Government to look at h...

The Scottish National party’s position is that the refugees are welcome and that we should do eve...

The routes are published on gov.uk, so the hon. Gentleman can see them, and I have outlined them ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her work today to create new routes of entry for Ukrainian...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. To give some context on Lviv, the take-up in recent weeks has...

The Home Secretary is right to talk about the unity that we have seen in response to the appallin...

We do not rule anything out. I restate to the House that we have been developing this response in...

After successfully getting Russia suspended from the Council of Europe, I wish my right hon. Frie...

I thank my hon. Friend for his practical support. I would like to take him up on that offer, part...

I hope that today’s statement will offer much needed certainty to constituents of mine who are de...

The answer is yes, and I highlighted in my statement the family route and the family scheme. If t...

As my right hon. Friend said, the Government are operating on the assumption that the vast bulk o...

My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. We do not know what tomorrow will bring and...

My constituent’s sister and children have fled Ukraine to Poland, where they have been welcomed o...

I was not aware of that, and I recognise the tone of the hon. Lady’s comment. I will pick that up...

My constituent writes in the past few hours:

“My only brother with his two small children a...

First, if my hon. Friend sends me the details of the church, the Department for Levelling Up, Hou...

Today, we are rightly focusing on the terrible situation in Ukraine, but I stress the importance ...

Obviously, the situation is developing, but I have outlined specific family and sponsorship route...

Quality of life for asylum seekers when they arrive here in the UK has to be paramount. Our broke...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. May I take the opportunity to thank him for all his work, bec...

I am assuming from the Secretary of State’s statement that a constituent’s elderly mother, who pr...

We will have to look at the individuals coming forward, because not everybody who has previously ...

As might be expected of a former Immigration Minister, I pay tribute to all the hard-working Home...

I echo the last words that my right hon. Friend used, because it is an absolute privilege—it is a...

The contrast between the desperate scenes of ordinary Ukrainians fighting for their lives or flee...

The hon. Lady can send in the case and we will pick it up.

I thank my right hon. Friend for her statement. It is clear that this is not a business-as-usual ...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. This is not a moment for making flippant remarks or anything ...

I thank the Secretary of State for her tireless efforts in these difficult days. Many missionarie...

The hon. Member makes a very important point. In fact, that was part of the conversation I had to...

The Home Secretary is right when she says that we do not know what is going to happen tomorrow or...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. To emphasise his point, this is a crisis that does not sleep ...

Colleagues on both sides of the House were a little perturbed yesterday when the Home Secretary s...

If I may, I will clarify a couple of things to the hon. Gentleman. First, in terms of what I said...

My constituent Tania, who is a dual British and Ukrainian national, is very concerned about her m...

I say to my hon. Friend that clearly we will do everything we can to help and support. It is very...

My constituent’s wife is a Ukrainian national who was granted a spousal visa last week, but in or...

I am sure that can be done, because that will be documents of permission to travel.

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement. In fast-moving circumstances, she is making absolutel...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Infiltration is one aspect, but there is much wider security ...

A considerable number of the 650,000 refugees from Ukraine will try to make it to the UK. I welco...

I absolutely reject the hon. Lady’s comments about round the Nationality and Borders Bill, becaus...

I warmly welcome the Home Secretary’s open and generous statement today, and I look forward to re...

No, and my hon. Friend is right to say that. I have said it already during the statement, but the...

The Home Secretary talks about vital security checks, but she needs to remember that we are predo...

Absolutely. I would like to pick up both cases, and what I would say is please send the informati...

My constituent Tatsiana, a legal UK resident, and her one-year-old baby, a British citizen, have ...

Yes, of course. I will need to see the case, as well, because the hon. Lady is raising it for the...

When it comes to resettlement housing, perfection can sometimes be the enemy of the good. The Min...

The hon. Lady has just made the case that I constantly make across Departments when it comes to a...

Can the Home Secretary confirm what initial discussions have taken place with the Scottish Govern...

It is an important point. Discussions have taken place; the Immigration Minister started discussi...

I first thank the Secretary of State and her ministerial team for all that they are doing on the ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind words and comments. He is absolutely right that we will h...

I thank the Home Secretary for so thoroughly answering a large number of questions. I have let th...