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Citizenship

Ministerial statement on Wednesday, 20 February 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord West of Spithead.
Lords statement on the "Earned Citizenship" Green Paper.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
699 c177-89 
Session
2007-08
Department
Home Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 699 c188-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister will be aware that immigration and migration are two sides of the same coin. ...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the figure that the Prime Minister said he hoped to reach was 4,000 and in fact it was 4,2...

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Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Statement refers in two different places to the record number of foreign national pris...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c187-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Elystan-Morgan, for that point. The intention is that we are ...
Baroness Carnegy of Lour | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, immigration and citizenship are not devolved to Scotland. They are a reserved matter. Quit...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c177-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my rig...
Baroness Hanham | 699 c179-81 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating this Statement made earlier in the other place. The Gre...
Lord Jopling | 699 c184 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister aware of the present situation whereby, in many cases, immigrant authoriti...
Lord Waddington | 699 c185-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the third paragraph of the Statement says: "““At a time of change, we have responded to th...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c185 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, for those points. As regards the legacy of asylum cas...
Lord Soley | 699 c186 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope my noble friend will take into account that this is an important step. After many y...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 699 c187 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I invite the noble Lord, Lord West, to return to the disqualification which visits a perso...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c184 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I said, the Green Paper looks at the path to citizenship. Closing the gaping hole, as t...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c189 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Morris for that question. In 2006, the total international mi...
Lord Roberts of Llandudno | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at various times many people in overseas countries are suffering from persecution—let us j...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Carnegy, has stumped me on that, because I do not know exactly wh...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c188 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Roberts, raises an important issue about refugees and asylum seekers....
Lord Avebury | 699 c181-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we, too, are grateful to the Minister for repeating the Statement from another place. We a...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c182-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hanham, and the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, for those perti...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c186 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, has raised some interesting points. It is interesting to ...
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 699 c186-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I concur with what the Minister said about border controls and counterterrorism. That will...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c187 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Falkner, for those points. I am not exactly sure if a Ger...
Lord West of Spithead | 699 c186 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend. I agree that that is what we hope to achieve with the Green Paper...
Lord Hylton | 699 c184-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the intention of the Green Paper to provide us with a better and clearer system ...
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