Immigration Bill

My Lords, my Amendment 122A, which my noble friend Lord Hylton has just referred to and to which ...

Would the noble Lord clarify subsection (3) of the proposed new clause, where I see that the word...

I am happy to reassure the noble Viscount that it is the latter. That is why it does not use the ...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment. I was going to talk about the human rights implication...

My Lords, I have one brief question for the Minister, who is going to rehearse the various stages...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, has correctly anticipated the thrust of my response to his...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly in the absence of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Sout...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 122A, since my name is associated with it. Some 2,000 refuge...

My Lords, my name is to the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Hylton. I prefer it to the am...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords for enabling this debate. We have had another passionate debate...

I may have missed it, but the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, asked the Minister whether he had an updat...

I do not have those updated numbers, but I will be happy to write to the noble Baroness. I mentio...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister. He gave me one more small crumb of comfort when he spoke...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

121: After Clause 63, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, serendipity, or the way the dice fall, means that the House is having to hear rather mo...

My Lords, in Committee, I gave my reasons for supporting the amendment and why I have no doubt th...

My Lords, I spoke in support of this amendment in Committee, although as the noble Lord, Lord Alt...

My Lords, none of us who is pressing this amendment invokes the word “genocide” too readily. For ...

My Lords, I speak this evening in the name of those who would undoubtedly qualify under this extr...

My Lords, I have two concerns in relation to this issue, to which I will speak briefly. First, in...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and other noble Lords who have spoken have made an overwhel...

My Lords, I find myself in great sympathy with what the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, has just said. ...

My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to applaud the noble Lord, Lord Alton, for bringing this ame...

My Lords, the issues that the tablers of this amendment have raised are so important and urgent t...

My Lords, I support this amendment but think it right to note that it would involve two radical c...

My Lords, I support this amendment and the excellent speeches made by other noble Lords, particul...

My Lords, the hour is very late. I shall be very brief. I find myself on this occasion in broad a...

My Lords, I, too, will be brief. There can be no doubt that the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord ...

My Lords, whether this amendment is carried or not, it must be clear to a Government who refer so...

My Lords, I have a couple of sentences on behalf of these Benches. This may be the first time tha...

My Lords, no one can fail to be concerned about and moved by the appalling position of those to w...

The noble Lord is telling us that the Labour Party agrees in principle with the feelings behind t...

I do not share the noble Lord’s view; I am setting out our view of the amendment and have referre...

My Lords, no one could but be moved by the strength of feeling and concern that has been expresse...

My Lords—

I shall finish the sentence, if I may—to those who are defined as refugees. The two are entirely ...

The noble and learned Lord said that he was going to give way at the end of the sentence. I detec...

I am obliged to the noble Lord. I was aware of that—and, of course, the distinction lies in inter...

The Yazidi are in a different position, which is why I raised them particularly. They are perceiv...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness, but the reality is that under the refugee convention and the ...

Will the noble and learned Lord point out where in the amendment it specifies anything about Yazi...

With respect to the noble Lord, it is nothing of the sort. On the last point, the Syrian vulnerab...

I know the Minister is trying to make progress, but he said that the Syrian vulnerable persons sc...

The noble Lord makes the point, and I accept that the scheme applies only to Syrians in the conte...

My noble and learned friend is making quite heavy weather of the inadequacies of the amendment. C...

I believe that we are already doing all of that. This was addressed by my noble friend Lord Bates...

My Lords, before my noble and learned friend sits down, he has heard considerable argument in fav...

I am obliged to the noble Lord. Respectfully, it appears to me that the proper course of action i...

Is the Minister saying that such a—

I have not given way.

In conclusion, this amendment does not even address the objective set...

Before the Minister sits down, if such a Motion was put forward, would it have the Government’s s...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, ended on an interesting note, which the noble Lo...

If I may, with respect, correct the noble Lord, the Motion would not be required to be from the G...

Would the noble and learned Lord like to remind me of the last time a Motion of that kind was tab...

I am not aware of the date when that was last done, but, as the noble Lord observed, it would be ...

My Lords, it seems that we are back into the circular arguments that we have been having. The las...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

122: After Clause 63, insert the following new Clause—

“Prot...

My Lords, Amendment 122 is concerned with individuals who helped the British Army and general Bri...

My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment. The whole of this Bill raises moral issues, and ...

My Lords, the hour is late and no doubt the House does not want to sit for too long. This is an i...

My Lords, if the amendment was simply in the terms expressed by the noble Lord, I would support i...

The amendment does not apply to all those people. It applies to all those people who have served ...

The noble Lord asked whether I support the Government’s policy regarding interpreters. I happen t...

In support of this amendment, I remind the House that Britain has been deficient in its treatment...

My Lords, there are some things that I think we can all agree on. I agree with the noble Lord, Lo...

I said that, according to the figures I have, under the intimidation scheme the number of Afghan ...

The noble Lord is right on that. The point is that 600 Afghan locally employed staff have been re...

My Lords, what the Minister has said is quite complicated. There are a number of different scheme...

They had to travel here to claim asylum. What they cannot do is claim asylum in foreign countries...

They had to be given visas or something with which to come here. The amendment says that they hav...

One of the reasons why we cannot accept the amendment—the red line, if you like—is that we do not...

The hour is late but, as I remember it, the Bosnians were allowed to come here in order to be abl...

I can certainly assure the noble Lord that, if he can produce examples of people who would appear...

I appreciate that. I know of at least two who have been identified in Calais by members of an NGO...

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

122A: After Clause 63, insert the following new Clau...

My Lords, we debated Amendment 122A some hours ago, when it was coupled with Amendment 122. It de...

Moved by

Lord Bates

123: Schedule 11, page 173, line 33, at end insert—

“( ) In...

Moved by

The Earl of Listowel

123A: Schedule 11, page 174, line 27, leave out “condit...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 123B, 123C and 123D. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lad...

My Lords, I support this group of amendments, to which I have added my name, for the reasons outl...

My Lords, the situation of most young adults in this country reveals why this group of amendments...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments and I was planning to say nothing more than th...

My Lords, I thank the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, for moving the amendment. He is one of the Membe...

My Lords, I am most grateful to the Minister for his encouraging reply. I should have acknowledge...

I am happy to come back on that. Where it is not safe for the person to be returned because there...

I thank the Minister for that reply. Casting back to past Immigration Bills, it is not necessaril...

Moved by

Lord Bates

124: Schedule 11, page 180, line 41, after “made” insert “by the ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

126: Clause 64, page 57, line 3, leave out “or”

127: Clause...

Moved by

Lord Bates

128: Clause 67, page 58, line 3, leave out “first” and insert “tr...

Moved by

Lord Bates

136: Clause 68, page 59, line 1, after “to” insert “—(i)”

1...

Moved by

Lord Teverson

140B: After Clause 68, insert the following new Clause—

...

My Lords, I shall not keep the House for a great deal of time. This is an issue which I believe t...

My Lords, at the previous stage my noble friend and I tabled an amendment that sought to change t...

My Lords, the amendment simply deletes a key requirement in a spousal visa. Noble Lords will reme...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this amendment and I appreciate the knowledg...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for going through all of that. It is a difference of opinion on pr...

Moved by

Lord Bates

141: Schedule 12, page 186, line 15, at end insert—

“(1A) A...

My Lords, I can be brief. These are three relatively small amendments, responding to the report f...

Moved by

Lord Bates

142: Schedule 12, page 186, line 16, after “containing” insert “a...

Moved by

Lord Wallace of Saltaire

144B: Clause 80, page 65, line 7, at end insert—