Immigration Bill

My Lords, I should like to speak to Amendment 25 and to our other amendments in the group that ar...

My Lords, I have been engaged with the landlord and tenant clauses of the Bill through all the st...

My Lords, the debates on the landlord provisions in the Bill have been good. I thank noble Lords ...

My Lords, in supporting Amendment 25 I will simply make two very brief points about what I hope t...

My Lords, I had a number of concerns about this part of the Bill. The noble Lord, Lord Best, was ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend the Minister for all his consideration, for meeting me and for ...

My Lords, I made clear my support for the Government when I spoke on Amendment 23. Therefore, it ...

My Lords, we have discussed at length and, I hope, to some good ends the important objective of t...

The reason I raised the matter was to ensure that lodgers were included as part of the evaluation...

I hope that I made that clear. I think that the record will show that I said that that would form...

My Lords, I was never going to persuade my noble friend not to use the words “phased” or “rollout...

Tabled by

Lord Rosser

25: Clause 19, leave out Clause 19 and insert the following new...

My Lords, we have a number of amendments in this group but we will not move any of them. In a sen...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

26: Schedule 3, page 65, line 32, leave out “compris...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

41: Clause 31, page 28, line 19, leave out subsectio...

My Lords, these amendments have been tabled in the light of comments made by the Delegated Powers...

I have only one brief comment to make; indeed, the Minister has already touched on it with his co...

I suppose we could argue about this for quite a long time if we chose to. I laid out consistency ...

Moved by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

43: Clause 32, page 28, line 37, leave out from “dra...

Moved by

Baroness Masham of Ilton

52: After Clause 38, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, Amendment 52 is to do with public health protection. In Committee, the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I appreciate that the charging arrangements are not ones for this Bill. I simply want t...

My Lords, I very much hope that the Minister will have a deep discussion with his colleague, the ...

My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend on speaking so powerfully on behalf of a vulnerable grou...

My Lords, briefly, when we look at the Second Reading and Committee debates, one area of the Bill...

My Lords, I agree that this is a very useful opportunity to inform the House of where we are on t...

My Lords, I thank the Minister and all who have supported the amendment. What is confusing is tha...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

53: Before Clause 43, insert the following new Clause—

“Re...

My Lords, I am moving again an amendment which we moved in Committee which we consider to be key ...

My Lords, I would like to reinforce that point. In the previous election in Stoke, I found people...

I thank my noble friend for that helpful intervention. The idea that, in core sectors of our econ...

My Lords, I have enormous sympathy with the intention of this amendment. It is entirely wrong tha...

My Lords, I am pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, has brought this back, and it has been v...

I am disappointed by the Minister’s reply. In Committee, he said that,

“more should be done...

I appreciate that I have not spoken in this debate but colleagues around me are confirming what I...

Perhaps I may remind the House what I also said, which was that the Minister used the word “short...

Moved by

Lord Roberts of Llandudno

54: After Clause 44, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, full employment with a job for every person has been the ideal of every party here over...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak as a co-sponsor of Amendment 54, and I shall recap briefly the ca...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, has one of the most prophetic voices in this House. He ca...

My Lords, I cannot resist speaking on this because I so admire what the Government are doing in e...

My Lords, in answer to the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, we need prophets and optimists, and I am gl...

My Lords, when the Government brought in this law, withdrawing the right of asylum seekers who ha...

My Lords, I briefly add my support because, although I have listened very carefully to the argume...

My Lords, I think the whole House will admire the heroic efforts of my noble friend Lord Roberts ...

Surely the Home Office would be able to tell the difference between an economic migrant and an as...

My Lords, if they are a genuine asylum seeker, in some cases it will be easy to determine that th...

I thank the Minister for his reply and say how terribly disappointed I am, even though we have br...