Immigration Bill

My Lords, I am a signatory to Amendment 227, which has been so comprehensively and well introduce...

My Lords, I shall speak in support of opposing the question that Clause 34 stand part of the Bill...

My Lords, I rise from these Benches to support Amendment 227 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, from these Benches we support Amendment 227 and the opposition to Clause 34 standing pa...

My Lords, I am proud to be British and was both proud and privileged to serve for nearly 41 years...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 227 and to oppose the proposition that Clause 34 stand ...

My Lords, I will make a brief contribution to this debate based on my own experience as the Membe...

My Lords, in the interests of speeding things up, I shall be very brief in putting a question to ...

My Lords, perhaps it is time for a different point of view on this subject. I have no difficulty ...

My Lords, I am obliged for the comments that have been made with regard to Clause 34 and Amendmen...

As the noble and learned Lord says, it would be invidious to build a whole argument on just one c...

I quite understand the noble Lord’s point. That is why the Secretary of State retains discretion ...

My understanding of the family test is that it is to apply not to the generality but to any polic...

It is not immediately apparent to me that it is applicable to this proposal, but in this context ...

My Lords, I am grateful for that. I did acknowledge the Court of Appeal decision, but I said that...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness. Without the benefit of second sight, I cannot say whether I t...

I would like to ask my noble friend about a situation that was made clear to us in a fairly recen...

I acknowledge the observation made, but I cannot comment on the particulars of such a case. What ...

Is the noble and learned Lord able to answer the question I asked?

The noble Baroness asked about communication of out-of-country appeals procedures. I do not have ...

First, I thank the Minister for that lengthy and comprehensive reply, which I am sure will have b...

We have the clause stand part debate on Clause 37 and an amendment in this group.

On 4 Augu...

My Lords, I support Amendment 230 in this group. My colleague, the right reverend Prelate the Bis...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Paddick and I have added our names to the objections to Clause 37 ...

My Lords, I oppose the Questions that Clause 37 and Schedule 8 stand part of the Bill and support...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, who spoke with such sincerity. I support...

My Lords, for many years we have discussed the Azure card, and it is good to return to it—and als...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, has reminded us that this clause is about forced destitut...

My Lords, as we now embark on Part 5, which deals with levels of support and the treatment of mig...

Before the noble Lord moves on, when he says that they will be supported in the same way, does he...

The short answer to that is yes.

Amendment 233 would require the Secretary of State to prov...

I am sure that the noble Lord will accept that it is not quite as straightforward as just saying ...

It is certainly not a tick-box exercise. Of course, a statement that someone is medically unfit a...

I will not start to play poker with the Minister. Will there be more details about the contents o...

More details will come out. We are working very closely with the local authorities and the Depart...

I cited what I understand to be the figures from the family returns process. A significant number...

That is, of course, how it is at the moment, but we will bring forward in the regulations means b...

We hope that is achieved and that we get a quicker process. At the moment, however, unless what I...

Every case will be different but in a normal case, if someone cannot leave within 90 days, there ...

If a pregnant lady is to be deported within six weeks of the birth, and if flights can be arrange...

I am happy to set that out in a little more detail. I think it would be helpful to say how we env...

My Lords, while we are on this subject, the noble Lord, in response to my Amendment 233, talked a...

First, I am a huge admirer of the work of the Red Cross and pay tribute to all that it does in th...

My Lords, perhaps I could ask one question. A number of noble Lords have said that when this sort...

That is one of the reasons why, in the preceding group, we talked about the policy of deport firs...

My Lords, the Minister will recall that I put five questions to him. Although he has in his minis...

I apologise if I did not address those questions specifically head-on. Of course, I am blessed wi...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

228: After Clause 37, insert the following new...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 228 and I am grateful to those noble Lords who have added thei...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, put the case eloquently and persuasively. She and I at...

My Lords, I add my warm support to my noble friend in moving this amendment. For any of us who ha...

My Lords, our Amendment 229 also addresses the issue of people who have been granted refugee stat...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for moving her amendment, and the noble Barone...

I thank all noble Lords who have spoken so helpfully and the noble Lord for that positive respons...

I should make one specific point that I need to put on to the record. It is not just a case of ex...

The Minister has just put his finger on a good example of the difficulty here. He has said that i...

My noble friend has taken the words right out of my mouth. As I said in moving the amendment, it ...

I cannot let that stand. I certainly would not be guilty of doing that. I am simply saying that w...

I am grateful for that. As I said I did not really believe that that was what the noble Lord mean...

Moved by

Lord Bates

229ZA: Schedule 8, page 114, line 5, at end insert—

“( ) in...

Moved by

Lord Bates

230ZA: Schedule 8, page 117, line 33, leave out from “a” to end o...

Moved by

Lord Bates

230C: Schedule 8, page 121, line 31, at end insert—

“In Sch...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

230D: Clause 38, page 40, line 18, at end insert “su...

My Lords, as the Minister said in his reply to the previous group of amendments, we will now have...

My Lords, I rise to support my noble friend’s Amendment 230D and to speak to my Amendments 234B, ...

My Lords, I have my name to a number of the noble Earl’s amendments. We have all received a consi...

My Lords, I support Amendments 234B, 234M, 234N and 235A in the name of the noble Earl, Lord List...

My Lords, I have a question which comes up in parallel to this huge group of amendments. It is as...

My Lords, having heard my noble friend and others, it is clear how important these amendments are...

My Lords, I do not want to detain the Committee because we have heard the significance of these a...

My Lords, the amendments in this group concern Clause 38 and Schedule 9. I declare an interest as...

My Lords, my Amendment 239B relates to asylum seekers who came to this country as children, who t...

My Lords, I am conscious of the time and that there has been some shuffling around and stern look...

I thank the Minister for the care with which he has responded and his full recognition of the vul...

I, too, thank the Minister for giving consideration to the position of people who are facing this...

My Lords, the Minister told us he received stern looks at the beginning of this group of amendmen...