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Nationality and Borders Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 28 February 2022, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Williams of Trafford, Lord Sharpe of Epsom and Lord Wolfson of Tredegar. The answering members were Lord Rosser and Lord Coaker.
Lords report stage first day. Amendment 1 agreed to on division (237 to 154). Amendments 3 to 19 agreed to. Amendment 20 agreed to on division (209 to 173). Amendment 24 agreed to on division (218 to 140). Amendment 28 agreed to on division (204 to 126). (Part 1 of 2).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

819 cc550-628 

Session

2021-22

Department

Home Office

Legislative stage

Report stage

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
Legislative scrutiny: Nationality and Borders Bill (Part 1) - nationality. Joint Committee on Human Rights seventh report.
Wednesday, 3 November 2021
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Legislative scrutiny: Nationality and Borders Bill (Part 3) - Immigration offences and enforcement. Joint Committee on Human Rights ninth report.
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
House of Commons
Nationality and Borders Bill 2021-22. Brought from the Commons.
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Bills
House of Lords
Nationality and Borders Bill. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee eighteenth report.
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Parliamentary committees
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Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c550 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

1: After Clause 4, insert the following new Cl...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 cc550-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in moving Amendment 1, I am grateful to my fellow signatories; to BIOT Citizens and Cha...


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Baroness Whitaker | 819 c552 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as vice-chair of the All-Party Group on the Chagos Islands, I will add one brief point ...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 819 c552 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I sat as a judge in one appeal on the Chagossians and learned about the disgraceful beh...

Baroness Ludford | 819 c553 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I recognise that the Bill removes discrimination against those, including some descenda...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 819 c553 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in Committee there seemed to be some representations from noble Lords who did not know ...

Baroness Altmann | 819 cc553-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I commend the Government, in that this Bill seeks to remedy some long-standing injustic...

Lord Ramsbotham | 819 c554 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 1, to which I have added my name. I declare an interest as...

Lord Horam | 819 cc554-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I must correct the noble Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, in one regard: the Lib Dems could...

Baroness Verma | 819 c555 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I declare my interests as set out in the register. This would be absolutely the right t...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 819 cc555-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, this is a unique situation. These islanders were forced out of their homes not because ...

Lord Cormack | 819 c556 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise very briefly to say a few words in tribute to one of the most remarkable parliam...

Bishop of Durham | 819 c556 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I hold my hands up: I am one of those who, as the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsec...

Lord Paddick | 819 c556 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, to assist the House to move swiftly on to votes, we on these Benches will try to restri...

Lord Rosser | 819 cc556-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Lister of Burtersett has set out the background to and purpose of ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 cc557-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I also thank the noble Baroness...

Baroness Altmann | 819 c558 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my noble friend for giving way. Can I ask him to confirm that, had the grandparents of th...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 c558 (Link to this contribution)

I think I have already answered that question. It is to do with the generations born outside Brit...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 819 c558 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise to the Minister, but could I ask him to deal with this unique position? There is, as ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 c559 (Link to this contribution)

I can only deal with it by extension, which is to say that it would be contrary to long-standing ...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c559 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. I think it is unusual to have more support fro...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 819 c559 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Minister has said that he would take it back. It may well be that if he takes it ba...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c559 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister said that he would take it back, but not with a view to bringing it back at Third Re...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 819 c559 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Russell of Liverpool

2: Clause 7, page 9, line 36, at end insert—

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 819 cc563-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, your Lordships will be delighted to know that I will be extremely brief in moving Amend...

Baroness Hamwee | 819 c564 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not want to take the time of the House other than to say, with thanks for the lett...

Lord Paddick | 819 cc564-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, has reached agreement with th...

Lord Rosser | 819 c565 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will not say anything on the amendment addressed by the noble Lord, Lord Russell of L...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 cc567-570 (Link to this contribution)

I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate.

I turn first to Amendment 2. As has...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 819 c570 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I will not deal directly with Amendment 21, whos...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c571 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

3: Clause 8, page 11, line 19, at end insert—<...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc571-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will aim to speak to all 11 amendments in my name, given that they touch on the same ...

Baroness Ludford | 819 cc572-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very much thank the Minister, who has taken a very welcome personal interest in this ...

Lord Coaker | 819 c574 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we support much of what the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, has just said and some of the...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc574-6 (Link to this contribution)

I thank both noble Lords for the points they have just made. I did refer to guidance in the point...

Baroness Ludford | 819 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I do thank the Minister for that reply. I am not absolutely certain. It may just be that I did no...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I cannot make an absolutist comment, but I was trying to explain to the noble Baroness that anyon...

Baroness Ludford | 819 c576 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the Minister for that further clarification. I think I have got as far as I am going to g...

Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 819 c576 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think I should put the Question.

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c576 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

4: Clause 8, page 11, line 22, at end insert—<...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc576-8 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

5: Schedule 1, page 86, line 6, leave out from...

Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 819 cc578-580 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

14: After Schedule 1, insert the following new Sche...

Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 819 cc580-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the circumstances in which British citizenship may be removed were keenly debated in Co...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 819 cc583-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her support in drafting these amendments, and I ...

Lord Macdonald of River Glaven | 819 c584 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, powers to deprive British citizens of their citizenship have historically been very tig...

Baroness D'Souza | 819 cc584-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, add hugely important safeguards...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 819 cc585-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, and I agree with wha...

Bishop of Chelmsford | 819 cc586-7 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you. My Lords, I am grateful for the suggestion that the House might like to hear from the ...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 819 cc587-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I apologise to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chelmsford for my lack of contr...

Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle | 819 c589 (Link to this contribution)

The noble Lord has displayed a very touching faith in the Home Office, which I do not think refle...

Lord Carlile of Berriew | 819 c589 (Link to this contribution)

I am not aware of the details of that case, but I would say to the noble Baroness that the archit...

Baroness Warsi | 819 cc590-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I start by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, on the detailed mea...

Lord Pannick | 819 c591 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shared the concerns expressed by my noble friend Lady D’Souza about Clause 9 as it wa...

Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 819 cc591-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I had the honour, with the then Leader of the House, to present to this House the 1981 ...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 819 c592 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I spoke in Committee and, obviously, after two and a half hours then and 50 minutes now...

Baroness Mobarik | 819 cc593-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I speak in support of the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, to leave Cla...

Baroness Verma | 819 c594 (Link to this contribution)

I was not intending to intervene, but may I ask my noble friend the Minister whether there is any...

Lord Marlesford | 819 c595 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Anderson. I think that the way this ...

Lord Paddick | 819 cc595-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, although at first glance it would seem reasonable for the Home Office not to have to gi...

Lord Rosser | 819 cc596-7 (Link to this contribution)

I think I am right in saying that until the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, spoke, all those speakers w...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc597-600 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, especially the noble Lord, Lord...

Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 819 cc600-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this debate on a subject that I suspect none of us ...

Lord Anderson of Ipswich | 819 cc601-2 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

15: Clause 9, page 11, line 31, leave out “it appea...

Baroness D'Souza | 819 c602 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness D’Souza

20: Clause 9, leave out Clause 9

Baroness D'Souza | 819 c602 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, having listened with great care to a number of Lords speak about Clause 9, I think it i...

Lord Judge | 819 c602 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Judge

24: Before Clause 11, insert the following new Clause—

“Com...

Lord Judge | 819 cc602-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, has asked me to open the batting on this amendmen...

Viscount Hailsham | 819 c607 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, those who heard the Minister outline the position of the Government earlier today with ...

Lord Rosser | 819 c607 (Link to this contribution)

Not surprisingly, there is nothing I could add to what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, ha...

Baroness Hamwee | 819 c607 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, from these Benches, I told the noble and learned Lord that we will be supporting him. H...

Lord Pannick | 819 c607 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I signed this amendment for all the reasons that were given by the noble and learned Lo...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc607-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, the noble and learned Lord, Lord...

Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood | 819 c608 (Link to this contribution)

Before the noble Lord sits down, do I understand that it is the Minister’s intention that, if thi...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 c608 (Link to this contribution)

In so far as the court has been told by Parliament that it can do that in the 1993 Act when it co...

Lord Judge | 819 cc608-610 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, faced with the problems to which Part 2 gives rise, we end up, on the basis of the Mini...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 819 c610 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

25: Clause 11, page 13, line 33, leave out “a...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 819 c613 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, when I tabled these amendments, I had sought to seek a greater reassurance from my nobl...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 819 cc613-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome the new clause proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and the nobl...

Lord Horam | 819 cc615-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we had a long debate on this subject in Committee, so I shall be brief. We ought to rem...

Bishop of Durham | 819 cc617-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if the names had not been filled on Amendment 28 then I would have added my name to it....

Lord Dubs | 819 c618 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I very much agree with the right reverend Prelate, and I am totally in support of the n...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 819 cc618-9 (Link to this contribution)

I was so annoyed by what the noble Lord, Lord Horam, was saying, because part of it was absolute ...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 819 c619 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, may I just ask my noble friend a question, based on listening to this debate and lookin...

Lord Etherton | 819 cc619-620 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I entirely endorse and support what the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, has said. ...

Lord Russell of Liverpool | 819 cc620-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I was not intending to speak in this debate but, rather like the noble Baroness, Lady J...

Lord Green of Deddington | 819 c622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will just say a word in support of what the noble Lord, Lord Horam, said, about publi...

Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood | 819 c622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would not want that to be quite the last word. The speech made by my noble friend Lor...

Lord Paddick | 819 cc622-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if those seeking asylum in the UK are genuine seekers of sanctuary from war and persecu...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 c623 (Link to this contribution)

With the greatest respect to the noble Lord, under the rules of Report stage, one is allowed to s...

Lord Rosser | 819 cc623-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as has been said, Clause 11 is about differential treatment of recognised refugees. The...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc624-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke to these amendments. At the outset, I will dispel one...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 819 cc627-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, obviously I am disappointed that my Amendments 25, 26 and 27 have not found favour with...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 819 c628 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard

28: Leave out Clause 11

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 819 c628 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, there are two ways in which to break a treaty, and I think that, looking back on it, I ...

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