Immigration Bill

My Lords, UK Visa and Immigration is still floundering in the unreliable IT systems and casework ...

My Lords, perhaps I may start by saying to the noble Viscount, Lord Eccles, that all Patels are b...

We are not even half way.

He will not have heard many supporters of this Bill and he is not likely to hear more. I will try...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to speak after my noble friend Lord Patel. I just wish that I h...

I did not say that and the noble Lord was embarrassed when he tried to say that I did. I was simp...

I accept what the noble Lord said and I bow to his great experience as a previous Secretary of St...

My Lords, I have long been of the opinion that immigration law is one of the best tests of the va...

My Lords, first, I declare my interest as a small landlord. Since the late 1960s, I have noticed ...

My Lords, there have been many times in our history when we have had a hostile environment for im...

My Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow my noble friend Lord Teverson. His combative style sh...

My Lords, does the noble Lord’s arithmetic take into account the fact that the pension age will b...

The noble Lord, Lord Avebury, is right. We could certainly change the ratio by increasing the pen...

My Lords, if ever courageous, strategic leadership was required, it is on the extremely contentio...

My Lords, a great deal has already been said that I was planning to say, and all I plan to do now...

My Lords, this Second Reading of the Immigration Bill is not taking place in a climate of public ...

My Lords, it is a privilege to take part in the debate this evening, and to hear the wide range o...

My Lords, my name was mistakenly left off the speakers list, although I had put it down last week...

My Lords, it is not a good economic or political climate for immigration. With so much conflict i...

My Lords, it is a great privilege to take part in this debate. The Bill has many valuable feature...

My Lords, the immigration debate was recently described as “rancid”, as politics has descended in...

My Lords, it has been a pleasure to listen to this very important debate in your Lordships’ House...

My Lords, I understand the Government’s wish to reduce net immigration. But they surely need to i...

My Lords, I speak in this important debate to focus on some of the issues concerning children and...

My Lords, the economic and human rights issues raised by this important Bill have been effectivel...

My Lords, the introduction to the recent BIS publication International Education: Global Growth a...

My Lords, the fact that I am not addressing the wider implications in this Bill regarding student...

My Lords, listening to this debate this afternoon and this evening, I have had a real sense of dé...

My Lords, it is about time that this country had a sensible, calm and balanced approach to discus...

My Lords, as my noble friend Lady Hamwee said, this Bill is not one that a majority Liberal Democ...

My Lords, I declare a number of immigration interests. As Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prison...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Chief Whip for suggesting that I might step into the gap for a mom...

My Lords, with the permission of the House, I, too, should like to speak briefly in the gap. I ap...

My Lords, we have had a lengthy, interesting and, at times, passionate debate. Some noble Lords h...

My Lords, this has been a long but thorough, wide-ranging and thoughtful debate on a topic of gre...

I am grateful to my noble friend the Minister. Could he just comment on the fact that visas are q...

I am grateful to my noble friend for raising that issue. I cannot respond to it immediately, beca...

My Lords, does the Minister realise that the figure he has just given is a cause of worry—that 20...

I do not think that there is, my Lords. My noble friend misunderstands the degree to which the ap...

The Minister said “the majority”, but what about the others? It means that some will miss out on ...

I think that we can take it that we will discuss this matter in some detail in Committee. The vie...