Immigration Bill

My Lords, there are times when this country is faced with significant humanitarian challenges and...

It gives me the greatest pleasure to support the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Du...

My Lords, I can see the point of the Government’s plan to collect child refugees from the Middle ...

My Lords, I support this excellent amendment. This is the least that we can do. As the noble Lord...

My Lords, I am very glad to speak in support of my noble friend—and he really is a friend. What h...

My Lords, much has been said about the part played by modern communications in the current confli...

My Lords, I am pleased to support my noble friend. The Government are to be applauded for the aid...

My Lords, I support the amendment and I have just one question for the Minister. I wonder whether...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, and put on record how impre...

My Lords, I would like to inject a note of caution into the debate, which has been a little one-s...

My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, am I to understand from what the noble Lord said that ...

My concern is that, if we are not careful about this, we might encourage families to send childre...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I thought the noble Lord put his view very morally and I do not ...

Could I add to that? The noble Lord, Lord Dubs, has put the specific number of 3,000 children in ...

That 3,000 figure is the figure that Save the Children calculated specifically in relation to chi...

My Lords, eventually I will be allowed to sit down. There are some very serious points here. Ther...

My Lords, we could probably spend four hours going backwards and forwards on this obviously impor...

I do not intend to speak at any great length. We support the amendment moved by my noble friend L...

The noble Lord, Lord Green, spoke earlier. Is he a grandfather or a father? Has he children? Woul...

I am a father and a grandfather and of course I would do nothing of the kind, but then I am not i...

Before I address the remarks relating to this amendment, I welcome the noble Baroness, Lady Henig...

On that very point, is the Minister aware that something like 40% of these unaccompanied asylum-s...

That is possibly the case. The Prime Minister announced on 28 January that we are going to contin...

I asked the Minister a very specific question about the Independent on Sunday report. If he canno...

Yes, I will write to make sure that I get it absolutely right.

My Lords, the Minister talked about the situation within Syria and potential relocation within Sy...

It is a fast-changing situation and needs to be balanced with what we are talking about, which is...

Can the Minister say a few words on his statement about most asylum seekers being 16 year-olds, a...

I hear what the noble Baroness says. The age verification of children is a key challenge facing a...

I am enormously grateful to all Members of the Committee who have spoken. With two exceptions, th...

I am not suggesting that any significant proportion of those now in Europe have been sent ahead. ...

That is a situation that we would have to consider if and when it happened. At the moment, we are...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

239BA: Clause 44, page 44, line 10, at end insert—<...

My Lords, we are now on to Part 6 of the Bill on border security. This is the first of a number o...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 241A in my name. At the end of the debate at Second Reading,...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire. In ...

We have an amendment in this group that calls for the Secretary of State to undertake a review of...

My Lords, I support Amendment 240. The sheer scale of immigration is a major public concern. I ag...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I shall be brief if I ...

Are the Government satisfied with our border security arrangements at the moment?

We are always looking to improve them. We agree that security is paramount. If there are areas th...

On the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, how can the Home Office argue that there...

On that last point, I do not know that one can blame just this Government, but I accept the noble...

I shall ask the Minister a very straightforward question. How is it that, when I was pressing for...

The Home Office understands that because it takes advice from the law enforcement agencies. Of co...

My Lords, the noble Lord must clearly be too young to remember who abolished exit controls. It wa...

Perhaps I may correct the noble Lord. Exit checks to Europe were abolished by the Conservative Go...

They were amended by this Government.

My Lords, I tabled my amendment simply to make sure that the Government and, in particular, the H...

Moved by

Lord Bates

239C: Schedule 11, page 140, line 16, leave out from “means” to e...

Moved by

Lord Marlesford

241: After Clause 46, insert the following new Clause—