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2023-24Chamber / Committee
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Wednesday, 6 December 2023
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My Lords, here we are—emergency legislation in three weeks, emergency press conferences and an em...
My Lords, there is no doubt that this is a mess. It is a mess in which the Government have writte...
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My Lords, if there is an alternative, I did not hear one.
The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, aske...
My Lords, the seventh paragraph of the Statement that was delivered in another place yesterday sa...
I point my noble friend to Clause 1(6) of the Bill, which actually outlines what international la...
My Lords, I apologise for being slightly delayed for the consideration of this Statement. My unde...
Regarding the second point, that question was asked the other day in a different context, and I s...
I will follow up on the question from the noble Lord, Lord Cormack. Setting aside the arguments a...
From the noble Lord’s last remark, it sounds like he has answered his own question. However, as I...
I have two questions for the Minister. First, Article 19 of the treaty says that we are under an ...
In answer to the first part of the noble Lord’s question, Section 19 of the treaty indeed says th...
My Lords, will the Minister confirm for the House that this country has a dualist regime? We do n...
In response to the first part of my noble friend’s question, I again repeat the Prime Minister’s ...
My Lords, I will add a point of detail to the question posed by my noble friend Lord Kerr. The Go...
My Lords, I cannot comment on specific numbers of refugees from that particular incident. However...
My Lords, many of the problems that we have discussed over the months and years come from the bac...
She is not a colleague so, no, she has not shared it. I am not going to second-guess what she was...
My Lords, I absolutely support the Government’s attempts to outlaw and stop the work of these cri...
As I said in answer to an earlier question, Clause 1(6) details international law. It includes th...
My Lords, will the refugees from Rwanda be put up in hotels?
I really do not know how to answer that.
My Lords, I welcome this legislation, not least because no alternative has been put forward by an...
My noble friend makes a good point, as he did earlier this week when asking his Question. I must ...
My Lords, may I rephrase—or re-present—the question put by the right reverend Prelate in respect ...
I thank the noble Lord for that question. I would certainly make a personal observation: he has a...
My Lords, does my noble friend agree that the British people place great emphasis on the concept ...
My noble friend makes an extremely good point and directs me, in many ways, back to what the Prim...
My Lords, if this legislation is as effective as the Minister implies, can he tell the House why ...
No, I cannot. I have not spoken to him.
My Lords, it is no secret that I am not very happy with my own party at the moment. Is the Minist...
I certainly hope so. This gives me an opportunity to remind the House that part of the reason we ...
My Lords, will the Minister give the House an assurance that the Government will not the disapply...
My Lords, I think I have already answered that question in terms of decisions based on individual...
My Lords, are the Government minded to consider the approach of the most reverend Primate the Arc...
As I said when the most reverent Primate asked me the question, global circumstances would clearl...
My Lords, I return to the Minister’s reply to my question about numbers, because they are importa...
The Government do know that number but unfortunately, I do not, because I forgot to ask the quest...
My Lords, my noble friend is being asked a lot about numbers. I know that many people here are co...
I could not agree more with my noble friend. I tried to make the point earlier that one of the pr...