Illegal Migration Bill

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 128C in my name, I shall also lend support to many of the amen...

My Lords, I am very pleased to follow the noble Baroness and the right reverend Prelate. Amendmen...

My Lords, I am a signatory to Amendment 128C, and I again declare my former role as an Immigratio...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Lord and his very interesting contribution. In many respe...

My Lords, I support Amendments 128B, 128C and 131, which all deal with an issue which is crucial ...

My Lords, I am pleased to support Amendment 128C in the names of my noble friends Lady Stroud, Lo...

My Lords, I wish to speak to my Amendment 129 on refugee family reunion. I am grateful for the su...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 130 and 131, but I speak in support of all the amend...

My Lords, I am delighted that the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, mentioned the Bosnian scheme, becaus...

My Lords, I will speak in support of the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Durham’s Amendment ...

My Lords, I will be extremely brief. I suggest that we look at these issues, which have now been ...

My Lords, I have my doubts about the term “safe and legal routes” as well. I would prefer to focu...

My Lords, I know this is not something I say very often, certainly not in the context of this deb...

My Lords, I welcome the Government’s commitment to deliver safe and legal routes and I support Am...

My Lords, I rise with great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, who raised some of ...

My Lords, we support all the amendments in this group. The issue of the millions displaced by war...

My Lords, this has been another very important debate on the Bill, on safe and legal routes. We s...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for her clarification of the statisti...

I apologise for missing the start of this debate as I was in a committee. Will the Minister expla...

I appreciate that the noble Lord was unable to be here at the beginning of the debate. I hope tha...

I understand the Minister’s point, but it does not answer the question that I asked: why does the...

It is because that is the structure of the legislation, and it simply makes for good parliamentar...

This is a technical point, but it is important to reflect on it before Report. It is not a substa...

As I said, we have considered these issues and are satisfied with the drafting as it is, but of c...

The Minister talked about “devising” new schemes; I asked for co-creation. Is he willing to go so...

The right reverend Prelate is right to point to the fact that these things are always a joint eff...

Will the Minister give way on that point?

If the noble Lord will forgive me, I should probably, in order to have a more coherent speech, ta...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way. My intervention is pertinent to that clause. Can he...

On the first point, I do not have that detail to hand so I will go away and find that out and wri...

Before the Minister moves on, I asked a question about children, which was echoed by my noble fri...

I ask the noble Baroness to forgive me; I was going to come to that. I have met with the Children...

My noble friend the Minister just spoke of “alternative” rather than “additional” routes. Can he ...

Yes, I was simply using the word “alternative” to discuss that particular route, but there is no ...

Will the Minister give way?

In just a second. My noble friend Lady Sugg also spoke to this amendment.

My intervention is on the previous topic.

Can we come back to that at the end?

On Report in the House of Commons, my right honourable...

I am grateful to the Minister for allowing me to intervene. I return to Amendment 128B and his co...

As I say, the definition of those to be caught will be specified in the regulations. Those are al...

With the greatest of respect to the Minister, it is covered by Amendment 128B. It is quite explic...

I hear what the noble Baroness says and hope to be able to offer her some more reassurance during...

The Minister has left me a little confused about numbers. He said that it would be a terrible thi...

The noble Lord omits to understand that the obligation to assist an asylum seeker is born of Sect...

I am slightly confused on this point as well. On a number of occasions, the Minister has said tha...

Obviously, consultation with local authorities is important—they are the primary consultee set ou...

I am afraid that the Minister’s use of the word “impact” triggered me. It would be very interesti...

I recall debating these topics and the very similar text of the noble Baroness’s Private Member’s...

Does the Minister think that the cost should also be measured in terms of the reputation of the U...

I clearly recognise the points the noble Lord makes—that it is believed that not providing a visa...

The Minister should not be conflating the two amendments: they are distinct amendments with disti...

I look forward to reading the noble Lord’s document when it arrives.

In due course.

In due course— I am very grateful. All these questions make it clear that bringing up legal migra...

I hope the Minister will reflect before Report on the point made by the noble Lord, Lord Winston....

I am not sure the noble Lord and I actually differ on the points raised by the noble Lord, Lord W...

My Lords—

Forgive me, I have taken an awful lot of interventions, and I am very conscious of the time. I as...

I was very encouraged by the answer the Minister gave. He seems to be saying that the needs refer...

I can certainly think about that. I will take it away, but I do not think we are terribly far apa...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for answering and clarifying some of the questions. My prophetic p...