Immigration Bill

My Lords, it was during a health debate seven years ago that I first drew attention to this appal...

My Lords, I am proud and pleased to be a signatory to Amendments 55A and 62A, and I am grateful f...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak on this amendment and I find myself in a curious position i...

My Lords, I too applaud the determination of those who have brought this matter before the House ...

My Lords, although I share some of the misgivings already expressed, including that of the noble ...

My Lords, I am not an expert in this field but I have encountered this situation in the context o...

My Lords, I support the amendment with great enthusiasm and want to comment briefly on an interes...

I had not intended to speak but I was concerned to hear about some of the disturbing individual c...

My Lords, we have clearly got to find a way forward. As my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe has ju...

My Lords, I support the amendment. Those who have listened to my noble and learned friend Lady Bu...

My Lords, on a final historical note, the noble Lord, Lord Cormack, probably remembers the late L...

My Lords, I shall add a few words to this important debate. There cannot be many of us in your Lo...

My Lords, I will just pick up a point that my noble friend made about the difference in powers be...

My Lords, this has been interesting. This is not the first time that the House has discussed the ...

I did not get it.

I am sorry if that was the case. I was hoping that all noble Lords here would have seen it. A cop...

Will the noble Lord make clear why the advocates that he is proposing do not have a legal status?...

That is a question that the modern slavery Bill will indeed be able to consider. The whole point ...

Can my noble friend give the House a guarantee that there will be something on that on the face o...

The Bill that is presented to Parliament is hardly likely to contain details of this measure beca...

My Lords, pilots are often very good places to start. But the noble Lord, Lord McColl, the noble ...

The noble Baroness is perhaps right to chide me, but we are seeking to get this matter right. It ...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister, but I happen to agree with him that the most important...

They would advocate in exactly the same way as they do currently in Scotland. There is no statuto...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend. Coming to this rather from scratch, can I ask him to ...

First of all, the amendment is to an Immigration Bill and is therefore confined to immigration, a...

I am very sorry to be adding to the questions, but can the Minister explain how the trial is goin...

I think I gave an answer to that, did I not? It may not be necessary. It is not in Scotland, wher...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, may I raise an entirely separate administrative problem?...

I assure noble Lords who have spoken in this debate that I will write to them personally about de...

Before my noble friend sits down, he said that we will have details in a few days. Does this not ...

No, we will not have information on the trials within a few days. We will have information about ...

My Lords, I do not doubt the good intentions of the Government. I should like to have seen that l...

I do not wish to interrupt the noble and learned Baroness, but I made it quite clear that advocat...

My Lords, I hesitate to disagree with the Minister, but where do the powers come from if there is...

Moved by

Lord Pannick

56: Clause 64, page 51, line 29, leave out subsections (1) and ...

My Lords, this amendment stands in my name and in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Smith of ...

I must tell your Lordships that if Amendment 56 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendments 56ZA to 56...

My Lords, it may be helpful if I explain the terms of our amendment at this stage and then come b...

Does that mean the Minister will accept that the word “independent” should be in his own amendmen...

I have just referred to the “independent reviewer of terrorism legislation”. We see the person un...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendments 56ZA to—

My Lords, my name is on the amendment so I wish to speak to it.

I also have an amendment in the group. I shall speak to Amendments 56ZA to 56ZD in this group. Th...

My Lords, that Clause 64 is highly contentious and far from obviously a good idea is perfectly pl...

My Lords, I spoke on the first day in Committee but was unable to attend on the day this clause w...

My Lords, I have Amendments 57A and 57B in this group and share the concerns that have been expre...

My Lords, I have made a number of speeches on this subject at different stages of the Bill and I ...

My Lords, I was not able to speak in Committee but, briefly, I will make a point that I think has...

My Lords, I wish to speak mainly to Amendment 56. I apologise to the House that I have not spoken...

My Lords, I intervene briefly to support government Amendment 56A and Clause 64 itself. I have fo...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a trustee of the think tank British Future and as a member of ...

My Lords, this has been a powerful debate. I am speaking to the amendment that I have been please...

My Lords, I am sorry that the noble Baroness feels that my responses have been inadequate. It is ...

At all times the Minister has sought to be courteous and to give as much information as possible....

I have written a report on every day of this Bill, and I will be writing about today’s debate to ...

My Lords—

Perhaps I may just finish my answer. I think that it will be helpful to the noble Baroness if I d...

I am sorry to interrupt the Minister but I was not asking whether the independent reviewer would ...

I see the point that the noble Baroness is making. I see no reason why not. If it has security co...

I am most grateful to my noble friend. As he has gone into some detail on Professor Guy Goodwin-G...

I will be happy to do that. However, I am conscious that noble Lords have been asking for answers...

I am sorry, but a few minutes ago the Minister said something about obligations under the Europea...

I was coming to this. I have been asked a lot of questions and I intend to answer them. The noble...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, particularly the Minister whose door has ...

Tabled by

Lord Taylor of Holbeach

56A: Clause 64, page 52, line 2, at end insert—

My Lords, if the Opposition were prepared to accept Amendment 56A, I should be prepared to move i...

My Lords, I am not sure whether the noble Lord has moved his amendment formally but, as the matte...

The point that I was trying to make was that, if this were to form part of the substantive Bill, ...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

57D: After Clause 64, insert the following new Clause—