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UK-Rwanda Partnership

Ministerial statement on Thursday, 7 December 2023, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Sharpe of Epsom.
Lords statement on the asylum partnership agreement with Rwanda.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

834 cc1609-1624 

Session

2023-24

Department

Home Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Coaker | 834 cc1613-5 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, here we are—emergency legislation in three weeks, emergency press conferences and an em...

Lord German | 834 cc1615-6 (Link to this contribution)

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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Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 cc1616-8 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if there is an alternative, I did not hear one.

The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, aske...

Lord Cormack | 834 c1618 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, the seventh paragraph of the Statement that was delivered in another place yesterday sa...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1618 (Link to this contribution)

I point my noble friend to Clause 1(6) of the Bill, which actually outlines what international la...

Bishop of Worcester | 834 c1618 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I apologise for being slightly delayed for the consideration of this Statement. My unde...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1619 (Link to this contribution)

Regarding the second point, that question was asked the other day in a different context, and I s...

Lord Liddle | 834 c1619 (Link to this contribution)

I will follow up on the question from the noble Lord, Lord Cormack. Setting aside the arguments a...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1619 (Link to this contribution)

From the noble Lord’s last remark, it sounds like he has answered his own question. However, as I...

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 834 c1619 (Link to this contribution)

I have two questions for the Minister. First, Article 19 of the treaty says that we are under an ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 cc1619-1620 (Link to this contribution)

In answer to the first part of the noble Lord’s question, Section 19 of the treaty indeed says th...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 834 c1620 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, will the Minister confirm for the House that this country has a dualist regime? We do n...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1620 (Link to this contribution)

In response to the first part of my noble friend’s question, I again repeat the Prime Minister’s ...

Viscount Waverley | 834 c1620 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I will add a point of detail to the question posed by my noble friend Lord Kerr. The Go...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 cc1620-1 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I cannot comment on specific numbers of refugees from that particular incident. However...

Baroness Hamwee | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, many of the problems that we have discussed over the months and years come from the bac...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

She is not a colleague so, no, she has not shared it. I am not going to second-guess what she was...

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I absolutely support the Government’s attempts to outlaw and stop the work of these cri...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

As I said in answer to an earlier question, Clause 1(6) details international law. It includes th...

Lord Mann | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, will the refugees from Rwanda be put up in hotels?

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

I really do not know how to answer that.

Lord Lilley | 834 c1621 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I welcome this legislation, not least because no alternative has been put forward by an...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1622 (Link to this contribution)

My noble friend makes a good point, as he did earlier this week when asking his Question. I must ...

Lord Griffiths of Burry Port | 834 c1622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, may I rephrase—or re-present—the question put by the right reverend Prelate in respect ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1622 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the noble Lord for that question. I would certainly make a personal observation: he has a...

Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts | 834 c1622 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, does my noble friend agree that the British people place great emphasis on the concept ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 cc1622-3 (Link to this contribution)

My noble friend makes an extremely good point and directs me, in many ways, back to what the Prim...

Lord Snape | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, if this legislation is as effective as the Minister implies, can he tell the House why ...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

No, I cannot. I have not spoken to him.

Earl Attlee | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, it is no secret that I am not very happy with my own party at the moment. Is the Minist...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly hope so. This gives me an opportunity to remind the House that part of the reason we ...

Lord Cashman | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, will the Minister give the House an assurance that the Government will not the disapply...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I think I have already answered that question in terms of decisions based on individual...

Viscount Waverley | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, are the Government minded to consider the approach of the most reverend Primate the Arc...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

As I said when the most reverent Primate asked me the question, global circumstances would clearl...

Lord Liddle | 834 c1623 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, I return to the Minister’s reply to my question about numbers, because they are importa...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1624 (Link to this contribution)

The Government do know that number but unfortunately, I do not, because I forgot to ask the quest...

Lord Ranger of Northwood | 834 c1624 (Link to this contribution)

My Lords, my noble friend is being asked a lot about numbers. I know that many people here are co...

Lord Sharpe of Epsom | 834 c1624 (Link to this contribution)

I could not agree more with my noble friend. I tried to make the point earlier that one of the pr...

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