Immigration Bill

My Lords, I know that my noble friend is anxious to speak on the Government’s amendment so I will...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s amendments here. I commented on the need for these issues to...

I support the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Judd, and refer to my experience as ...

My Lords, we will listen with interest to the Minister’s response to my noble friend Lord Judd’s ...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s amendment as far as it goes and what may be coming at Third ...

My Lords, I hope I will be forgiven for returning to a point that we discussed in Committee, on t...

My Lords, as noble Lords will know, the Bill gives legislative effect to our current policies on ...

I am very grateful to the Minister for what he is saying and the way he is saying it. Will he re-...

My Lords, I would like to think that by our signing up to the amendment in the name of the noble ...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

2: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 28 to 35 and in...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

7: Schedule 1, page 60, line 13, leave out paragraph 5

My Lords, in returning to the amendment, I shall concentrate on developments since it was debated...

My Lords, the noble Lord has spoken very powerfully about this issue, today and previously. I hop...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. We have “reasonable force” at the moment, but I am conc...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, has spoken with his considerable knowledge of the enfo...

My Lords, I do not think that there is going to be any marked division in this House on this issu...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for his considered reply and, indeed, for the m...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Crosby

9: Clause 7, page 6, line 45, at end insert—

My Lords, in moving Amendment 9, it is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, who I...

My Lords, I support the amendment for all the reasons given by the noble Baroness, Lady Williams,...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow my noble friend Lady Williams and the noble and learned Lor...

My Lords, I do not think that support for this amendment should be limited to my own Benches. I f...

My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment because I absolutely agree with everything that h...

My Lords, I speak very briefly in support of this amendment so that my noble friend Lord Judd is ...

My Lords, nobody could be against the spirit in which this amendment was moved so persuasively an...

My Lords, when I raised issues about bail and mental health in detention at the previous stage, t...

My Lords, we have heard some extremely powerful speeches in today's debate, especially on the con...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for that contribution. I think she recognises ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for his carefully thought-through response and all Membe...

Moved by

Baroness Berridge

10: Clause 15, page 13, line 39, leave out from “unless” t...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee of the think tank British Future. I apologise that t...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on moving this important amendment, based on one of the ...

My Lords, having spent some five years as Treasury counsel, periodically attempting to remove ill...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved so ably by the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, who is a co...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment, which raises a short but vital issue of principle, whic...

My Lords, I have the disadvantage of not seeing this matter quite in the way that my colleagues h...

My Lords, this is a matter in which I, like the noble and learned Lord, Lord Brown, have had cons...

I shall say a few words in support of the noble Baroness’s amendment. I thought that she made a v...

My Lords, it is very risky for a non-lawyer to intervene in such a debate, but I would be most gr...

The reason why I suggested the word “previously” is because that is in new subsection (6) and wou...

My Lords, I rise briefly to comment that the noble Baroness, Lady Berridge, has done a service to...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Berridge for introducing this amendment, which, a...

Perhaps the noble and learned Lord will ponder on the following. Although, of course, the Secreta...

My Lords, I hear the point which the noble and learned Lord makes. It is also important to recogn...

I again apologise for interrupting, but will the noble and learned Lord bear in mind that the Sec...

My Lords, one of the examples given by my noble friend Lady Berridge was that a matter may sudden...

I wish to make a suggestion. The noble and learned Lord rightly emphasises that the Secretary of ...

My Lords, I appreciate the noble Lord’s comments and help, which I know are made with a view to t...

My Lords, I thank the mainly noble and learned Lords who have spoken, predominantly in support of...

My Lords, it would entitle the noble Baroness to bring it back at Third Reading.

I thank my noble friend for his clarification. I also ask the Minister to consider the resources ...

Moved by

Baroness Smith of Basildon

11: Clause 15, leave out Clause 15

My Lords, we now return to what many consider one of the most controversial clauses in the Bill. ...

My Lords, I have added my name to this amendment to remove Clause 15 from the Bill. A system of i...

My Lords, I apologise to the House for not having spoken before on this Bill. I will be brief. I ...

My Lords, I was not sure whether to speak yet; I was looking for a Bishop. Amendment 14 in this g...

My Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Smith, indicated, we debated this matter at some length in ...

The figures that the noble and learned Lord has just given are interesting. He said that 21% of a...

My Lords, I am almost tempted to say that you are damned if you do and damned if you do not. That...

Will the chief inspector look at the substantive elements of the case rather than just the proced...

My Lords, I mentioned to my noble friend the report on out-of-country cases in Warsaw in December...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his full explanation. He is right: there has been som...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

12: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause...