Illegal Migration Bill

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendment 2—unless the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, wants to ...

My Lords, with some trepidation, I want to comment on Amendments 1 and 5, tabled by my noble and ...

My Lords, in fact, the noble Baroness makes my point. What I am really saying is that those who a...

Is it not our job to ensure that the Bill does not come up against the convention?

My Lords, I would like to speak to Amendment 2, which is in my name and those of my noble friend ...

Did the noble Baroness refer to Amendment 32 just now?

No, I referred to Amendment 2, which is the second one in this group.

Before I move to huma...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 4 in this group, in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lo...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness. I support her Amendment 4 for the follow...

My Lords, I have only a very brief intervention to make, but I want to speak to Amendment 4. I ha...

My Lords—

My Lords—sorry, we have had quite a lot of Tories, have we not?

I am sorry, my Lords. I want to indicate that I think all of us in this Chamber wish, as the Gove...

My Lords, I apologise to the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope. It was an excess of enthusiasm in coming ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 4 and 84; I also have a great deal of sympathy for Amendment 148. ...

My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 4 and draw attention to my entry in the register, with ...

I would happily support all the amendments, although I would prefer Amendment 4, which I think ex...

My Lords, I want to comment on the speech made by the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chelms...

My Lords, first, I apologise for not having been able to participate in the Second Reading of the...

My Lords, I apologise that I did not get to speak at Second Reading. I misread the Order Paper an...

Is the noble Baroness really suggesting that this country should depart from treaty obligations w...

Having no qualms is something that I would never do, but I am also suggesting that having qualms,...

Would the noble Baroness like to remind the Committee which limb of the constitution takes respon...

My Lords, I do not think there are evil people involved in this and I have not gone down the mora...

The noble Baroness will recall that we had a referendum to leave the European Union. Many of us o...

I am coming to an end. I understand the noble Lord’s point and I am endeavouring to explain that ...

My Lords—

My Lords—

I think it is this side.

It is this side; an independent has just spoken.

Speaking independently, I think it is this side, but I will give way to the noble Lord.

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for giving way and therefore I will be brief. I am not a lawyer,...

Oh, go on.

It is a brilliant speech, which reminds us that what was done hundreds of years ago is still bein...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the personal and moving speech from the noble Lord, Lord Cashman...

I entirely accept, and everyone who has spoken so far has agreed, that we have to control migrati...

The most reverend Primate is exactly right: we have failed to start the conversation across the c...

My Lords, I largely made at Second Reading all the points I would have wished to make in this deb...

My Lords, I support Amendment 4 for all the reasons that almost every Member of the Committee has...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer; I am an economist. When the most reverend Primate raised this questi...

My Lords, I will be very brief in speaking to the amendments in the names of my noble friend Lady...

My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, brought his copy of Hansard from Second Readi...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 2, 4, 84 and 148. I shall not speak to Amendments 1, 3 and 5...

If the noble Lord looked at the national statistics on immigration for 2022, he would see that th...

That may be so, but the numbers are on a rising plane, and it is not simply Albanians now, they a...

I just ask the noble Lord about his point on Section 3 of the HRA, which he regards as disadvanta...

, I looked at Sir Peter Gross’s report yesterday and the night before to remind myself of what it...

Godin-Mendoza.

I am obliged. So there we are.

I have a very short point to make. I was delighted to hear the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley...

I feel a little intimidated to follow such an intervention. I am not a lawyer either, but I am a ...

My Lords, I oppose Amendments 2, 4 and 148 in this group because they would subvert and obstruct ...

No, they do not. That is not true.

I apologise for not taking part in the Second Reading debate on this Bill, but I have made amends...

My Lords, like my noble friend Lord Patten, I have sat through all of this debate. I rise because...

I recall saying once in the Appellate Committee that the courts were not bound by the statement—i...

The noble and learned Lord is absolutely right; it has no legal effect. Can I put this another wa...

Does the noble Lord not agree that the Section 19(1)(b) statement on this Bill is very different ...

The noble Lord is making a political point. It may be good politics or bad politics, but whether ...

With respect to the noble Lord, nobody is criticising the Minister for making the statement. The ...

It is certainly not smoke and mirrors. The force of the noble Baroness’s point is, “If you can’t ...

I am grateful to the former Minister and sure that he listened carefully to how Section 19 was in...

To avoid the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, having to be up and down too many times, I will jump in he...

I am grateful for that shortish intervention. Essentially it raises the same point that the noble...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord, because I was following with interest his argument, which s...

I am reluctant to give the noble Lord a private lecture on this, but I will set out a very short ...

This could develop into a really interesting argument, I am afraid—between lawyers. The noble Lor...

I started my remarks by saying that international treaties are extremely important and that we sh...

As a matter of fact, the European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated by the Human Rights...

With great respect, the noble Baroness is wrong. The Human Rights Act did not incorporate the con...

I entirely agree with the noble Baroness that we should pass clear legislation. I think she used ...

It was a joke.

That is the first time I have heard the word used. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, used ...

My Lords, as a non-lawyer, I have found the last few minutes absolutely absorbing. I have learned...

Yes, go on.

I shall be very careful—I do not want to be thrown out of here. During the referendum campaign, B...

My Lords, we support the clarifying amendments in the name of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Ho...

I draw the noble Lord’s attention to the fact that he is conflating two different purposes. One i...

I will apologise to the noble Lord if I am wrong, but my understanding is that the 700,000 is net...

My Lords, it is a privilege to wind up for His Majesty’s Opposition. I start by declaring my inte...

My Lords, we have had a very interesting, long and good debate, which has had perhaps more than a...

I thank the Minister for giving way. I merely want to ask whether you are recommending that all o...

As the noble Lord knows, the Prime Minister and President Macron have had regular discussions and...

I am sorry to intervene on the Minister, but I wonder if he could direct my attention to where in...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness. I was indeed about to mention her in my next sentence. ...

Does the Minister not think that it might at least be a courtesy to the Committee to set out whic...

I will come to address the issues of the broad applicability of the Section 19(1)(b) statement. T...

When my noble friend was replying to the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, he said that the ECHR memorand...

That is correct: the ECHR memorandum is one of the documents prepared to support the Bill in its ...

Before the Minister leaves this part of his address, will he tell the House whether it is the int...

As I have already outlined, it is clear that there is nothing in the Bill that would require the ...

The Minister seems to be placing a great deal of weight on there being nothing in this Bill that ...

I am not sure that I agree with the noble Lord. There is no requirement that powers should concei...

I wonder whether the Minister could help me. He said that the Government would apply—I gather—all...

Clearly, as I have already said, it is the Government’s view that nothing in the Bill requires th...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this very interesting and ...