Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

That is my name— I mentioned that.

I beg to move amendment 45, page 2, line 33, leave out “a safe” and insert “an unsafe”.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 1, page 2, line 34, at ...

The SNP has brought forward these amendments to this appalling Bill not because we really believe...

On a point of order, Madam Chairman. The hon. Lady’s speech seems more appropriate for Second Rea...

It is actually amendments and clause stand part, so that gives a wider scope than perhaps the rig...

I am glad the right hon. Gentleman has had your advice, Dame Rosie, on the subject of the debate....

On that point, will the hon. Lady give way?

I will if the hon. Gentleman can tell me why the Government treat people so cruelly, I will.

I have been listening with interest to the compassion that the hon. Lady is expressing, but could...

The hon. Gentleman should inform himself, because there is no such thing as an illegal asylum see...

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The hon. Gentleman can sit down; he has made his point.

Fellow human beings, from Afghanist...

On a point of order, Dame Rosie. I do not want to try your patience, but clause 2 is about the sa...

I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his point of order. Please can he leave it with me? It is ra...

Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would like to come along to listen to Olivia Ndoti and the women...

Amendment 45, as the hon. Lady has just said, would permanently designate Rwanda an unsafe countr...

I believe that it is fundamentally unwise to recognise countries as safe in perpetuity, because t...

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I wish to make some progress. The hon. Gentleman will be able to contribute later on.

I wis...

I rise to speak in favour of the amendments in my name and that of my hon. Friend the Member for ...

I completely agree with the right hon. Gentleman about one thing: this Bill will not work. I do n...

If the hon. Gentleman were right, hundreds of thousands of people would not be making that very j...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way again to the hon. Gentleman. Let me move forward and speak more directly to o...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

I will give way to the hon. Lady in a moment. As night follows day, every migrant will say, “Rwan...

My right hon. Friend makes a good case for deterrents but, I fear, a bad case for his amendments....

Let me address that question head-on. I have known my hon. Friend for a long time—he was not born...

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

I will not give way at the moment; let me make some more progress on explaining the amendments, i...

Will the right hon. Member give way?

Will the right hon. Member give way?

I will give way in a moment. When we come to those individuals who are subject to the strictures ...

I want to touch on something the right hon. Gentleman said earlier about whether the Bill will wo...

I have heard that argument advanced before, and of course I am proud of what we have achieved wit...

I just point out to the right hon. Gentleman that people arrive in small boats because legal rout...

On the hon. Lady’s first point, we have had this argument many times before, and she is completel...

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I will not give way to the hon. Gentleman.

The amendment also says there very narrow ground...

I rise to speak in favour of amendments 35 and 37 and new clause 6, tabled in my name and the nam...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the Government are being extremely neglectful with the public purs...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right: it is quite remarkable that a party that used to pride itself...

The Foreign Office recently admitted that hundreds of Afghans who are eligible for resettlement h...

The hon. Lady is right. The Afghan schemes are a case in point. The Afghan relocations and assist...

My hon. Friend is making an important point about how we need to co-operate much more intensively...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. If we accept that international co-operation with our Europea...

Has it escaped the hon. Gentleman’s notice that one claim was dismissed by the Supreme Court judg...

Of course Parliament is sovereign, and of course we in this place are sent here to make laws, but...

Just to tease out a little more Labour policy on the specific issue that the hon. Gentleman refer...

Well, that is an interesting one; I did not have talking about the sub-postmasters scandal on my ...

Has the shadow Minister not seen all the comments and budget lines that the Government have put o...

The co-operation with France is to be welcomed. The problem is that it is too far downstream. We ...

Over the Christmas period, the Labour Front Benchers anonymously briefed The Times saying that th...

I thank the former Immigration Minister for his comments. I enjoyed opposing him and, on some occ...

It is a little disingenuous to liken this process to the Ukrainian scheme. The only criteria for ...

There has been a 30% drop since 2010 in convictions of criminal smuggler gangs, and a 50% drop si...

The hon. Gentleman is very kind to give way a second time. I have listened to him carefully, but ...

I thank the right hon. Member for that intervention. I do not think I could have made it any clea...

We want the Bill to succeed. We want it to work and to do what our voters want, but at present it...

My hon. Friend is doing a wonderful job, as always. Did he see the recent briefings, which seemed...

I am afraid to say that does appear to be the inevitable inference to be drawn from the statement...

I am very much enjoying my hon. Friend’s speech, as always. He gave the example of Germany, which...

I am extremely glad that my hon. Friend has made that point, because I had the disobliging necess...

My hon. Friend is making a compelling argument about the difference between this country and thos...

I have to say, with all humility, that it is not so much that I agree with them, or that they agr...

I start by raising my concerns with the Government about using a Committee of the whole House for...

The right hon. Lady will know that under this Government and previous Governments of all politica...

I do not know whether I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for that intervention, because th...

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson...

My right hon. and learned Friend is making a profound and important point about the nature of the...

I entirely agree. My right hon. Friend and I are both romantic Tories of an old school, which mig...

I want to bring my right hon. and learned Friend back to the amendments. Does he agree that betwe...

My hon. Friend puts the point very well. There is a landing space for this policy. I disagree wit...

My right hon. and learned Friend is generous in giving way. With all his experience as former Jus...

I will give, if not a professional opinion, my right hon. Friend an opinion born out of experienc...

My right hon. and learned Friend is being very generous and I appreciate the speech he is making....

I am inclined to be kind to my hon. Friend. It is probably not an either/or, but an and. He and t...

My right hon. and learned Friend may not be aware that after has left office the current waiting ...

My right hon. Friend is right. He is building on the frustration that I had. That is not a critic...

The practice of Government, certainly over the last 14 years, has been that where there were bott...

Where there is a will there is a way. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I do not want to deta...

My right hon. and learned Friend is once again right that this place should not act in an arbitra...

I agree with my right hon. Friend that we are not just another public agency. This is Parliament ...

Let me begin by declaring my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests, which refers ...

Many of the amendments relate to whether or not Rwanda is a safe country. Would we not be in a di...

I entirely agree. That is an important point, and we are struggling to get much sense out of the ...

As the hon. Lady knows, I agree with her that we need to extend safe and legal routes—that is why...

We need the safe and legal routes first. The rates at which people are accepted as having a reaso...

That is an interesting point, but how does the hon. Lady explain the fact that France receives mo...

I would hope that our system has the trust of its politicians and is robust enough to ensure that...

Immigration is quite possibly the most important issue facing this Government or indeed any Gover...

The hon. Member for Rhondda (Sir Chris Bryant) also asked that question. If it is so attractive t...

What is the hon. Gentleman’s solution? When Opposition Members make these arguments, they have to...

The right hon. Gentleman is talking, quite ridiculously, about people concocting stories—I feel t...

They may not concoct it; it may be entirely true—we do not know. However, what we all know is tru...

May I posit a slightly different approach? As my right hon. Friend says, all of us on the Governm...

To be fair to my hon. Friend, I do not like what I am suggesting, but we are faced with a nationa...

It is always interesting to follow the right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). I a...

Good afternoon, Mr Evans, and thank you for calling me to speak in this important debate in refer...

It is a pleasure to follow a contribution that was slightly more rational than those we have hear...

It is a pleasure to speak in the debate. I rise to speak in support of the amendments standing in...

My right hon. Friend is making a powerful speech. I am curious, and it is possibly my procedural ...

Order. I remind Members that when intervening they should please look forward, so that their voic...

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It is possible to bring back a Bill on this issu...

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I will not give way further on this point. We are clearly keen as a Conservative party to deliver...

I rise to speak to the amendments tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Stone (Sir William Cash...

The hon. Lady says that the asylum system has limitations, but does she accept that the only way ...

Another absurdity that my constituents raise with me is that Opposition parties seem to speak for...

The hon. Lady’s point is quite absurd. Nobody is saying, realistically, that 8 billion people are...

I fundamentally disagree with the hon. Lady. Scotland does not have the same issues as many Engli...

After Miriam Cates, Matt Warman will be the last Back-Bench speaker. The wind-ups will begin afte...

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton North East (Jane Stevenson...

I commend my hon. Friend for all the work that she has been doing in this regard. Does she agree ...

I entirely agree. The problem is that Britain has become known as a soft touch, partly because of...

Would my hon. Friend agree that a focus on foreign aid and a united effort—[Interruption.] I than...

I agree with my hon. Friend, who of course is right. One of the many solutions to this problem is...

After Matt Warman we will have the ministerial response, then Alison Thewliss will make reference...

I want to begin by talking about the remarkable contribution of my hon. Friend the Member for Sto...

Having looked at my amendment carefully, has my hon. Friend observed that the only way to guarant...

I would agree with my hon. Friend that the Bill could go through, but that does not guarantee leg...

I hope my hon. Friend noticed that I said that changes to the European Union’s charter of fundame...

I fear that some of what my hon. Friend says is correct, but it is also true that we lessen our a...

I thank my hon. Friend and near constituency neighbour for giving way. I am sure his constituents...

I agree up to a point, but the Government can go only so far before they lessen their chances of ...

What a great pleasure it is to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Boston and Skegness (Matt War...

If Rwanda is a safe and secure place in which asylum seekers can live comfortable and productive ...

The deterrent is because they are seeking to come to this country and not Rwanda. I hope the hon....

On that point, will the Minister give way?

How could I refuse?

As he heard, I made reference to the Rwanda judgment and the case of ASM, whose claim was dismiss...

As my hon. Friend knows, he and I agree on a great deal and I have paragraph 144 engraved on my h...

Perhaps I am being facetious, but seeing as so many illegal migrants are fleeing France, should w...

My hon. Friend might have been a touch facetious in her intervention—she herself said it, otherwi...

indicated assent.

The hon. Lady has been straightforward about that; she is nodding. We are agreeing yet again duri...

On India, Jagtar Singh Johal has now been detained for over six years. Is the Minister saying tha...

No, I am saying that this House passed legislation last night stating that India is generally a s...

I merely repeat the point that parliamentary sovereignty has to be combined with clear and unambi...

I am grateful for the intervention, and I agree with my hon. Friend: he is absolutely right about...

Will the Minister clarify whether, if the Government can, as reported in The Times and The Daily ...

My hon. Friend is right and I sense, understand and share her passion for resolving the issues in...

Before the Minister moves on from the contribution of the right hon. Member for Middlesbrough Sou...

The hon. Gentleman will appreciate my determination to get the Bill through. I am the Minister fo...

It has been explained that the grounds for individual appeals are exceptionally narrow, so why ar...

As I said in response to a previous intervention, they are being stood up in relation to the Ille...

The Minister is simply misrepresenting the purpose of new clause 6. Its purpose is to put the mon...

I am grateful to the shadow Minister for his intervention. When he was setting the policy out in ...

What a despondent, pathetic, ridiculous Bill this has been, and what a grim debate it has been to...