Illegal Migration Bill

My Lords, this is the first of a number of proposed new clauses relating to the efficiency of the...

My Lords, Amendment 139 in this group is in my name. This group is all about efficiency and admin...

My Lords, I support Amendment 139 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti. I have put...

My Lords, I disagree with the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti. She made her case for transferrin...

My Lords, the Minister ought to welcome Amendments 132, 134 and 135, because they simply ask for ...

My Lords, I hope noble Lords will forgive me that I was unable to speak at Second Reading and wil...

My Lords, the noble Lords, Lord Carlile and Lord Kerr, will be pleased with my remarks because th...

Has it occurred to the noble Lord that there may not even be a secret plan?

It had not occurred to me—but it has now.

The serious point is that there must be a plan. I...

Does it surprise the noble Lord to learn that I have asked that as a Written Question, and that t...

No, it does not surprise me that the noble Lord asked the Question. I had not noticed it, but the...

My Lords, the main problem with the broken asylum system, which appeared to be working satisfacto...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken to these amendments today, and I thank all nobl...

The Minister mentioned the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration reports. The 20...

I am afraid I do not have answers to the noble Lord’s questions. I will have to come back to him ...

On the subject of impact assessments, I am sure that my noble friend meant to ask where the child...

I think that that question has been asked and answered by my noble friend; I cannot update the Ho...

In talking about this matter, could the Minister address the issue of why the Cabinet Office has ...

My Lords, the answer lies in the words the Home Secretary used this morning in front of the Home ...

The Minister has just asserted that he cannot improve on those words. I put on the record, on beh...

I am sorry to upset the noble Lord opposite, but that is the best I can do.

Amendment 138, ...

I am grateful to the Minister. He was quite right about this being a probing amendment to demonst...

I will certainly ensure that the noble Baroness’s points are noted in the department.

Final...

My Lords, on the question of a secret plan or no plan, the announcement that came out the other d...

Moved by

Baroness Ludford

133: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—

I was pleased to hear the contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Kamall, who added another sensible...

My name is on Amendment 133, and I had planned to make a speech debunking our friend the pull fac...

My Lords, at an earlier stage in our debates on the Bill, I referred to the fact that I am a memb...

My Lords, I support Amendment 133 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. My right rever...

My Lords, I well remember a speech made on my first day in Parliament in 1970, on the Queen’s Spe...

I will not make the speech I was going to, because all the points I planned to make have been mad...

My Lords, some very powerful remarks have been made in this short debate so far, some of which I ...

I hesitate to interrupt the noble Baroness as I will have a right of reply after the Minister, bu...

What the noble Baroness does through many of her contributions is argue against anybody using the...

There are not 5 million people out of work on benefits. Universal credit applies to large numbers...

The information I have is that there are 5 million people receiving out-of-work benefits. In my v...

My Lords—

I will give way in a moment; let me just finish the point I am trying to make. An argument on eco...

I appreciate that. Can the noble Baroness tell us what proportion of those people are not in work...

I cannot, and I am not here to get into a detailed discussion about that. I am simply trying to m...

My Lords—

I will finish my point and then I will give way. I think that some of the matters that noble Lord...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. I wonder whether she will answer th...

At the moment, if somebody is still awaiting a decision on their asylum status or their status as...

My Lords, I was not here at the start of the debate, so I am embarrassed to stand up and will be ...

My Lords—

Surely noble Lords can speak only if they have been present throughout the debate from the very b...

The noble Lord is absolutely right—that is correct.

The noble Lord may be referring to my having to rush out urgently—I needed to get a glass of wate...

I do not want to be unkind, but the rest of us manage to persuade the door- keepers to bring us g...

May I? Forgive me, I am normally somebody who is a stickler for us keeping to the Companion—absol...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, for raising this interesting point and for he...

I had not intended to say anything about this amendment, but I will say a couple of things. First...

I am not in any way trying—

For God’s sake.

Excuse me? Somebody said, “For God’s sake”. I do not know who that was. Okay.

I am not tryi...

My Lords, I am sorry if the noble Baroness misunderstood my first comment. It was in response to ...

My Lords, I hope that the noble Baroness will not mind my using her as an excuse but, on reflecti...

My Lords, shall I move on to Amendment 150? In fact, it takes us back to the previous group; I ha...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 150, to which I have added my name, and indeed to all the ame...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly only to Amendment 133, to which I would have attached my name h...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly to the two amendments in the name of my noble friend Lord Coake...

My Lords, we support all the amendments in this group. On Amendment 133 in the name of my noble f...

I will let my noble friend the Minister respond on behalf of the Government to the noble Lord’s p...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness. I am not sure whether she heard the evidence provided by my ...

My Lords, the amendments in this group all relate in one way or another to the operation of the a...

The Minister’s assertion needs evidence. Sweden allows asylum seekers to work immediately, Portug...

I do not agree that the evidence from the rest of Europe is any indicator of what might drive peo...

I am sorry to interrupt, but my noble friend referred to 17,000 claims having been processed. How...

I do not have that figure to hand, but I will find out and write to my noble friend.

By tac...

My Lords, I am grateful for the Minister’s response, although I feel that he slightly demolished ...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

136: After Clause 60, insert the following new Clause—