Illegal Migration Bill

My Lords, I apologise for my slightly late arrival in the first minute of this debate. I rise bec...

My Lords, I rise mainly to introduce Amendment 52F, in my name, but before doing that I would lik...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and I agree with every single wo...

My Lords, I rise in support of Amendment 53 tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, ...

My Lords, I was not going to intervene in this particular group of amendments but, seeing that th...

I apologise that I was unable to be present on day one of Committee and I arrived today rather la...

I wish to ask a question of the Minister in regard to Amendment 43, spoken to by the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, we support all the amendments in this group, including the probing amendments tabled by...

My Lords, this is another important group of amendments and we support all of them. I remind nobl...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords who have put forward amendments in this grou...

I wish to probe a little more what the Minister said. I understand his points about certain parts...

I suppose that the direct answer is that one would have to negotiate an appropriate agreement wit...

I appreciate that the Minister said that, therefore, a negotiation may have to be done on not sen...

The Government would have to monitor it as best one could, and, if it turns out that an arrangeme...

My Lords—

I will finish my train of thought and then give way. The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, rightly asked a...

First, following on from what the Minister said at the beginning of the answer he has just given,...

My Lords, in relation to the first part of the question asked by the noble Lord, it is true that ...

I am grateful to the Minister for the answer he gave to a point I raised earlier. I ask him wheth...

My Lords, the Government are always prepared to talk to anybody who would like to put forward var...

The judge in an Upper Tribunal would no doubt be trying to determine the will of Parliament in de...

I am not sure I completely understood the question. It may well be that in practice there will be...

Let me try again for the Minister. It is often said in court that judges were uncertain as to the...

My Lords, the Government’s position is that no one should be sent back if to do so would lead the...

I am sorry to trouble the Minister again, but I have been listening to this with great interest a...

It will remain a question of fact in each case and the examples of relevant harm are set out in C...

I am so grateful to the Minister for responding with his characteristic courtesy and patience. I ...

My Lords, the Government will of course consider that, as we try to consider everything that is s...

On that very point, what is the point of having Ghana in that schedule? There is no agreement wit...

My Lords, I sought to explain earlier that Schedule 1 is an amalgam of all the existing schedules...

I am grateful to the Minister. The hour is late, and I promise not to intervene again on his rema...

My noble friend Lord Murray tells me that that is already in train—or, certainly, there is no obj...

My Lords, I too thank the Minister for his patience and graciousness. Given the amendments that I...

In taking full account of what the noble Lord, Lord Cashman, has just said, which was obviously a...

The equality impact assessment that the Government have done on this talks particularly about sex...

My Lords, at this stage I do not think I can elaborate beyond the answers I have already given. T...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the care with which he has responded to these amendments. I do...

My Lords, I expect that I am being asked to play a sort of night watchman role in continuing the ...

I am grateful to the Minister. That has raised further issues in my mind about what information m...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

31: Clause 5, page 7, line 24, after “Convention,” ...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

34: Clause 5, page 8, line 5, after “2002,” insert ...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

38: Clause 5, page 8, line 28, after “State” insert...