Immigration Bill

My Lords, I support Amendment 30, at least in principle. I support the move that the Government a...

I am concerned that the reduction in the number of immigration decisions that can be appealed fro...

My Lords, I support my noble friends Lady Hamwee, Lord Paddick and Lord Avebury, and align myself...

My Lords, it is an indication of the discontent with Clause 11 that this is the second debate we ...

I think that I did reply, if the noble Baroness looks at the Official Report. I said that it was ...

That is really helpful and I apologise. I shall reread Hansard. I am sure that I did not doze off...

My Lords, before my noble and learned friend responds, perhaps I may make it clear—I thought I ha...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lady Hamwee for tabling this amendment. She described it as bei...

In the information that I have, a number of these decisions are reviewed later by a senior office...

I am afraid that I do not have a figure for that further subcategory. If it exists, I will make s...

My Lords, I suppose that if the chief inspector will have added to his workload checking to see i...

If I am wrong I will correct this, but my understanding is that if Parliament does not support th...

I am grateful for that. I do not think that it negates the question that I am about to ask, altho...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

31: Clause 12, page 10, line 31, at end insert—

“( ) A...

In moving Amendment 31, I will also speak to Amendment 32 in this group. The amendment takes us t...

My Lords, perhaps I may add my support to the points that have been made by the noble Baroness, L...

My Lords, I support Amendment 31A. I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for speaki...

My Lords, I move to resist these amendments and support Clause 12 of the Bill. The effect of Clau...

My Lords, as I understand Clause 12, it is all about dealing with appeals and provides a power fo...

My Lords, I again thank my noble friend Lady Hamwee for moving her amendment and raising the issu...

Would the Minister be good enough to indicate what “facilitate” means? Does it mean that the Gove...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. Clearly, there will be an opportunity to challenge t...

My Lords, I think that when I introduced Amendment 32, I acknowledged that it is not an amendment...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

33: Clause 14, page 12, line 25, at end insert...

My Lords, I also speak to Amendments 40, 42, 43 and 45, supported by the noble Lord, Lord Roberts...

My Lords, I speak wholeheartedly in support of the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, who I would call ...

My Lords, Clause 14 circumscribes the freedom of the courts to interpret Article 8 of the ECHR de...

My Lords, I add my support to the general concerns expressed so eloquently by the noble Baroness,...

My Lords, this is one of three groups of amendments around Article 8 that we have tabled to Claus...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for introducing this amendment, and thank thos...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble and learned Lord but I thought I would do so now rather than wa...

My Lords, as I think the noble Baroness alluded to when she moved the amendment, in the Public Bi...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in support of the amendment, and ...

Moved by

Lord Mackay of Drumadoon

34: Clause 14, page 12, line 37, at end insert “Wel...

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 34, I shall also refer to Amendments 35 to 37, all of which ar...

My Lords, I am delighted to support this amendment from another part of the Celtic community. I d...

The noble Lord makes a powerful and emotional, in the best sense, statement in favour of the amen...

It would not hurt that Englishman in any way at all. We would still allow people who speak only E...

My Lords, I hesitate to engage in this Celtic discussion. I am half Scottish, which might help, a...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay of Drumadoon, for this amendment and I ...

I am grateful to noble Lords who spoke in support of my amendment. I am also very grateful to the...

My Lords, in calling Amendment 38, I must inform the Committee that if it is agreed, I cannot cal...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

38: Clause 14, page 13, leave out lines 5 to 11

My Lords, Amendments 38, 41, 44 and 46 are in my name and that of the noble and learned Lord, Lor...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 38A, 38B and 39A. The noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has made a v...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for introducing this amendment. He ...

My Lords, I have the misfortune to oppose these amendments and to take a different view, therefor...

My Lords, as a non-lawyer, I always take some comfort when the lawyers disagree on an issue. I ha...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, for moving the amendment, which has given us an o...

I am very grateful to the Minister and indeed to all noble Lords who have spoken on this importan...

I sought to try to explain that that expression of little weight was really a way of putting into...

I am grateful to the noble and learned Lord. The difficulty with that is that the Strasbourg juri...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

47: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, Amendment 47 deals with financial circumstances when they fall to be considered in resp...

My Lords, I support this amendment. I remember that when we debated the original regulations in y...

I shall briefly speak to paragraph (d) of the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee,...

My Lords, I welcome this amendment moved by my noble friend Lady Hamwee. I was very pleased to ad...

Some very interesting points have been made in support of this amendment. We await with interest ...

My Lords, I appreciate the concerns raised by my noble friends Lady Hamwee and Lord Teverson in b...

My Lords, about 20 minutes ago, as I reread my amendment just before we started the debate, I rec...