Illegal Migration Bill

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

115C: Clause 52, page 53, line 40, after “court” in...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

116: Clause 52, page 54, line 1, at beginning insert “P...

My Lords, this may be the graveyard shift, but I will do my best to keep the Committee awake for ...

My Lords, I can be relatively brief. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, for introducin...

I want to make a brief contribution on Clause 53. We cannot ask the Minister to comment on the im...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 119 and to the overall challenge to Clause 53. To be absolut...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, threw down a verbal gauntlet, so let me try to pi...

I beg the noble Lord’s indulgence in standing up and asking him a question. I was piqued by a twe...

I am grateful for that short intervention. I am now not sure whether I am intervening on the nobl...

My Lords—

Before I give way, may I make one other short point? I respectfully suggest that state practice c...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. I draw his attention to the current, as of today, UK Visas and I...

I think that goes back to the point I was making a moment ago. With the greatest respect—I do not...

I am grateful to the noble Lord. It strikes me, in reading this clause, that it proceeds on the b...

On that, I entirely agree: the clause is very carefully drafted. The Government’s position—as I u...

I think we really have to hear from the Minister, frankly. The clause does set out the various ob...

In which case, I will give one final statement before I finish. On this we all agree—the answer t...

If I understand the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, correctly, he is saying that the solution is not Cl...

My point is that I am supporting Clause 53. It is not inconsistent to say that we will have Claus...

What I am hearing from the noble Lords opposite is that if the Government ignored Rule 39 it woul...

My Lords, I think everybody is really waiting to hear what the Minister has to say about this. It...

My Lords, Clause 52 underpins the suspensive claims and appeals process by prohibiting the courts...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this debate—it was not that short—and even more gra...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

116A: Clause 52, page 54, line 1, after “court” ins...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

117A: Clause 52, page 54, line 7, after second “cou...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

119A: Clause 54, page 56, line 7, leave out from “s...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Durham

121: Clause 55, page 56, line 21, leave out subsec...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 121 I shall speak to Amendments 122 and 126 in my name. I am gratef...

My Lords, Amendments 124 and 125 are in my name and they have the support of the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 123 and 140, following on the points made by the right rever...

My Lords, I thank the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham and the noble Baroness, Lady Li...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham, the noble B...

My Lords, this is a very important group of amendments. I shall not speak particularly to my Amen...

My Lords, as we have heard, these clauses and amendments take us on to the provisions regarding a...

The Minister referred to the figures increasing for disputed children, because the figures in 202...

I do not recognise those statistics, but I will of course look at the Helen Bamber Foundation rep...

Can I just pick up something before the Minister leaves this point? If I understood the noble Bar...

They participate in the particular type of medical scan that is utilised. That is the practice ad...

Whether it is adopted by our European partners or not, Gillick competence is the key UK law that ...

The provisions in the Bill are clear, and, as I say, in due course draft regulations will be prov...

It is quite astonishing to hear a Minister of the Crown say, from what I can understand, that a c...

I fear that we are speaking at cross purposes. I certainly would not compel any child to particip...

The whole point is that they are, in effect, being compelled. This point was made by the interim ...

It is difficult to debate these measures. As I say, in the event that the situation is advanced b...

I am sorry but can the Minister explain how this can be acceptable when subjecting young people—c...

I am not sure that I agree with the allegation that this is unethical because, as the noble Baron...

It may be that the noble Lord, Lord Lilley, has expertise that the Committee is not aware of but ...

As the noble Baroness rightly says, now is not the moment to discuss this hypothetical but it is ...

Has the Minister had discussions with the GMC and social workers, for example?

The noble Baroness now invites me to embark on a discussion that she just said she did not want t...

What is the point of seeking advice if it is then ignored? While I am on my feet, because I was n...

Of course we consider the advice provided by the Age Estimation Science Advisory Committee and th...

The Minister did not allow me to intervene earlier, so will he allow me to intervene now? In what...

We have already canvassed these topics, but there are many ways for a decision-maker to take a re...

I thank all noble Lords for contributing to the debate and for interjecting during the Minister’s...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

123A: Clause 55, page 56, line 33, after “court” in...

Moved by

Lord Murray of Blidworth

128: Clause 57, page 58, line 41, at end insert—