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Nationality and Borders Bill

Debate on bills on Wednesday, 2 March 2022, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Williams of Trafford.
Lords report stage second day. Clause 15, amendment 31, debated and withdrawn. Amendment 32 agreed to on division (221 to 172). Clause 18, amendment 33, debated and withdrawn. Clause 25, amendment 34, debated and withdrawn. Clause 28, amendment 35, debated and agreed to on division (208 to 155). Amendments 36-39 not moved. Clause 31, amendment 40, debated and withdrawn. Amendments 41-46 not moved. Amendment 47, debated and withdrawn. Amendment 48 agreed to on division (178 to 130). Amendment 49 agreed to on division (169 to 122). Amendment 50, debated and withdrawn. Amendment 51 agreed to on division (172 to 120). (Part 1 of 2).

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

819 cc817-890 

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. Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee eighteenth report.
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords
Nationality and Borders Bill. Constitution Committee (HL) eleventh report.
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
Parliamentary committees
House of Lords

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Rosser | 819 c817 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Rosser

31: Clause 15, leave out Clause 15

Lord Rosser | 819 cc817-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Clause 15 puts into the Bill an existing immigration law on inadmissibility that makes ...


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Lord Paddick | 819 cc818-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Clause 15 allows the Secretary of State to declare an asylum claim inadmissible if the ...

Lord Etherton | 819 cc819-820 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the provisions for an admissible asylum claim, where there is a connection —as defined ...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc820-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions. I say at the outset that the Government ha...

Lord Paddick | 819 c822 (Link to this contribution)

Before the Minister sits down, can she clarify? She insists that the Government’s intention is no...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c822 (Link to this contribution)

Given what I have already stated about an indefinite state of limbo, surely the Minister’s words ...

Lord Rosser | 819 cc822-3 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, and the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, for their co...

Lord Rosser | 819 c823 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Rosser

32: After Clause 15, insert the following new Clause—

“Saf...

Lord Rosser | 819 c823 (Link to this contribution)

I wish to test the opinion of the House.

Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 819 c823 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Neville-Rolfe

33: Clause 18, page 22, line 36, at end insert—

Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 819 cc823-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I rise to move my Amendment 33 and thank my noble friend Lord Green of Deddington for h...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 819 c827 (Link to this contribution)

This is a thoroughly nasty amendment. That is all I have to say about it.

Lord Green of Deddington | 819 cc827-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will not be quite as brief as that, but I will try to be brief.

I rise to suppo...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 819 c828 (Link to this contribution)

I rise briefly to support this amendment. I had an opportunity years ago, when we were part of th...

Lord Hylton | 819 c828 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I invite the noble Baroness who moved this amendment and her supporter to consider the ...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 819 cc828-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have been following this Bill since its inception. I have not spoken up to this point...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 819 c829 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, with great respect, is the noble Lord actually referring to the specific amendment unde...

Lord Davies of Stamford | 819 c829 (Link to this contribution)

I am endeavouring to do so but I shall not stand here for very long.

The ancient Spartans w...

Lord Paddick | 819 c830 (Link to this contribution)

No. My Lords, this is Report. First, we are allowed to speak only once during a debate. Secondly,...

Lord Coaker | 819 cc830-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, under Clause 18, where an asylum seeker provides late evidence, this should damage thei...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc831-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for raising the issue and of course...

Baroness Neville-Rolfe | 819 c832 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank those who have spoken in this brief debate. The very real problems of refugees,...

Baroness Coussins | 819 c832 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Coussins

34: Clause 25, page 30, line 25, at end insert—

“(2A...

Baroness Coussins | 819 cc832-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, Amendment 34 is in my name, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for her suppor...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 cc833-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of the amendment, which I hope the Minister will be ab...

Lord Paddick | 819 c834 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we support the amendment as far as it goes, particularly the emphasis on those subjecte...

Lord Coaker | 819 cc834-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not want to add much to what the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, and my noble frien...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc835-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for her engagement with me, as the House wil...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c837 (Link to this contribution)

Just before the noble Lord sits down, can he say whether there will be any consultation on the gu...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 c837 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I do not have the detail at my fingertips, but I can certainly undertake to write to th...

Baroness Coussins | 819 cc837-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply and all other noble Lords for their support on this ...

Baroness Stroud | 819 c838 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Stroud

35: Clause 28, page 33, line 20, leave out paragraph (a)

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Baroness Stroud | 819 cc838-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in the absence of my noble friend Lord Kirkhope due to Covid, I will be moving Amendmen...

Bishop of Durham | 819 cc839-840 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in rising to support Amendment 35 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, to whic...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c840 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support Amendment 35. In Committee, I and a number of other noble Lords asked various...

Lord Horam | 819 cc840-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I spoke on this subject in Committee, so I will not make any more than a few brief rema...

Lord Cashman | 819 c841 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will speak rather briefly; it seems to me that brevity has a very wide definition. Le...

Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb | 819 c842 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think the noble Lord, Lord Horam, makes the mistake of thinking that this House trust...

Lord Etherton | 819 cc842-3 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I entirely agree with and support what has been said by the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud...

Lord Paddick | 819 c843 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I want to briefly restate what I said in Committee. Not only is the Home Office seeking...

Lord Rosser | 819 cc843-5 (Link to this contribution)

Amendments 35 and 37 would remove the subsections of Clause 28 and Schedule 3 which allow for off...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc845-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I thought it might be helpful, ...

Bishop of Durham | 819 c846 (Link to this contribution)

I say to the Minister that 3 pm today is far too late for this debate, and we have not received i...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c846 (Link to this contribution)

I do not deny that 3 pm is too late, but that was my understanding. I will chase it, if indeed it...

Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 819 c846 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it may assist my noble friend to know that I have received the letter.

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc846-8 (Link to this contribution)

I am so pleased that my noble friend has been able to confirm that to me. I was just trying to be...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 819 c848 (Link to this contribution)

Before the Minister sits down, the letter that she kindly sent us today sets out at greater lengt...

Lord Paddick | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of clarification, the Minister said that the Minister in the other place had given an ...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

I thought that I had made it clear that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children would not be offsho...

Bishop of Durham | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

Can we be absolutely clear: the Minister is not saying that children could not be offshored if th...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

I have gone as far as I am willing to go by confirming that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

I have been trying to read the letter on my phone, but it did not arrive until after 4 pm and the...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it would depend on the circumstances of the case.

Baroness Stroud | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is clear that a number of very serious outstanding questions about this policy need ...

Bishop of Durham | 819 c849 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Durham

40: Clause 31, page 34, line 45, leave out “first”...

Bishop of Durham | 819 cc849-854 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 40 to 45 in place of my friend, the right reverend Prelate ...

Baroness Chakrabarti | 819 c854 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am rationing my interventions on Report to facilitate the early and many necessary Di...

Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 819 cc854-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, although I support all these amendments, I will speak only to Amendment 45, to which I ...

Lord Cashman | 819 c855 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I shall be brief and summarise the position I took in Committee. I support all the amen...

Lord Etherton | 819 c856 (Link to this contribution)

I have two amendments in this group, but they are quite distinct from what has been debated so fa...

Baroness Hamwee | 819 cc856-7 (Link to this contribution)

This is another of those occasions when saying “From these Benches, we support” and not much more...

Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood | 819 c857 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I spoke at some length on the legal aspects of this group of clauses in Committee and, ...

Lord Rosser | 819 c857 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will be very brief. I wish to say that we agree with the amendments in this group, wh...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc858-861 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who propose these amendments: the right reverend Prelate t...

Lord Etherton | 819 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that I have been caught rather short on procedure, so I hope the House will indulge m...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 819 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry to interrupt the noble and learned Lord, but I think my noble friend is able to answer...

Lord Etherton | 819 c860 (Link to this contribution)

I have one more point of clarification. Could the Minister explain what the position will be for ...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc860-2 (Link to this contribution)

I was coming to each of those points in my speech. I am not going to do so just yet, because I wa...

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 c862 (Link to this contribution)

I am not sure that one generally takes questions on Report. I am newer than the noble Baroness, a...

Viscount Younger of Leckie | 819 c862 (Link to this contribution)

My noble friend is correct on that. Noble Lords are guided not to speak after the Minister.

Lord Wolfson of Tredegar | 819 cc862-4 (Link to this contribution)

I want to respond to the concern expressed in Committee about the impact the clause would have on...

Bishop of Durham | 819 c864 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very full and considered response and all noble Lords for ...

Baroness Ludford | 819 cc864-5 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Ludford

47: After Clause 37, insert the following new Clause—

Baroness Ludford | 819 cc865-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the Ukrainian family scheme drives a welcome coach and horses through the usual Home Of...

Lord Dubs | 819 cc866-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment 48 in particular. I say at the outset that I am grateful t...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 819 cc868-871 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, in what he has just said. I was one of the signato...

Baroness Stroud | 819 cc870-2 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, again in the absence of my noble friend Lord Kirkhope, who still has Covid, I wish to s...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 819 cc872-3 (Link to this contribution)

I support all the amendments in this group but particularly Amendment 48, which has my name on it...

Bishop of Durham | 819 cc873-4 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, in rising to speak to Amendment 48 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, to which I have...

Earl of Dundee | 819 c874 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, since post Brexit, the EU’s Dublin III regulation no longer protects the rights of unac...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 819 cc874-6 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. I particularly want to mention the amendmen...

Lord Hylton | 819 c876 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, we have heard some very moving speeches. Because I have consistently spoken over the ye...

Lord Green of Deddington | 819 cc876-7 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I offer just a sentence on some of these amendments.

On Amendment 48, we need to ...

Lord Paddick | 819 cc877-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, as we have heard, in addition to the family reunion amendments so ably explained by the...

Lord Coaker | 819 cc878-9 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, what a powerful debate we have just had on what is one of the most important parts of t...

Baroness Williams of Trafford | 819 cc879-883 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I thank all the noble Lords who spoke in this debate. To take the point made by the nob...

Baroness Ludford | 819 c883 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the Minister. I still hope that some lessons will be learn...

Lord Dubs | 819 cc883-4 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Dubs

48: After Clause 37, insert the following new Clause—

“Immig...

Lord Dubs | 819 c884 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, now is not the time for a long speech. I am disappointed in the Minister’s response. I ...

Baroness Stroud | 819 cc884-7 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Stroud

49: After Clause 37, insert the following new Clause—

...

Baroness Stroud | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to test the opinion of the House.

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws

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

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

Having heard the response of the noble Baroness, I would ask that she might indicate whether she ...

Baroness Fookes | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry, but the noble Baroness has spoken to the amendment. I must now put the Question.

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

I was just asking for an indication from the Minister; I am with withdrawing my amendment.

Baroness Penn | 819 c887 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the noble Baroness will be able to withdraw her amendment after the Question has been p...

Baroness Fookes | 819 c890 (Link to this contribution)

That is correct. It is now in the hands of the noble Baroness: does she wish to seek leave to wit...

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 819 c890 (Link to this contribution)

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

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

Lord Alton of Liverpool | 819 c890 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I would like to test the opinion of the House.

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