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Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Wednesday, 17 January 2024, in the House of Commons, led by Michael Tomlinson.
Committee stage (second day). Clause 3, amendment 11, debated with further amendments, clauses and new clauses, and withdrawn. Clause 3 agreed to on division (339 to 264). Clause 5, amendment 23, negatived on division (65 to 536). Clauses 5-8 agreed to on division (340 to 263). Clause 9, amendment 36 negatived on division (263 to 339). Clauses 9-10 agreed to on division (340 to 264). New clause 8 negatived on division (264 to 338). Clause 1 agreed to. Speaker resumed the Chair. Bill reported without amendment.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
743 cc835-958 
Session
2023-24
Department
Home Office
Legislative stage
Committee stage
Procedure
Proxy voting
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill 2023-24
Thursday, 7 December 2023
Bills
House of Commons
Deposited Paper DEP2024-0149
Sunday, 28 January 2024
Deposited papers
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 c835 (Link to this contribution)

I remind Members that in Committee they should not address the Chair as Deputy Speaker. Please us...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c835 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move amendment 11, page 3, line 21, after “Act” insert

“, and of the Illegal Migra...


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Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 cc835-841 (Link to this contribution)

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment 12, page 3, line 22, af...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c841 (Link to this contribution)

I know that the Minister for Countering Illegal Migration, my hon. and learned Friend the Member ...

Edward Leigh | 743 c841 (Link to this contribution)

I am happy to support my right hon. Friend tonight on this amendment, as I did last night. I am o...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c842 (Link to this contribution)

I will come on to the exact points that my right hon. Friend is making; they are fair and importa...

Imran Hussain | 743 c842 (Link to this contribution)

At least the right hon. Gentleman has the strength to be vocal about what he actually believes, w...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c843 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pity, but I cannot say I am surprised, that the hon. Gentleman sinks to those depths and ...

Patrick Grady | 743 c843 (Link to this contribution)

Is this British exceptionalism? Is the right hon. Gentleman making the case that the ECHR should ...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c843 (Link to this contribution)

It seems as if we are having a dialogue of the deaf, because that is not what I said at all. I sa...

John Hayes | 743 c843 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend is, of course, right that it contradicts the long-established custom and pra...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c844 (Link to this contribution)

I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend.

Stella Creasy | 743 c844 (Link to this contribution)

As somebody who has served on the Council of Europe and was proud to do so because of the United ...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c844 (Link to this contribution)

That is not the point I am making. Once again, the hon. Lady is not listening. The point I am mak...

Joanna Cherry | 743 c844 (Link to this contribution)

I want to address the point of law in respect of the Strasbourg Court. The difficulty with the ri...

Robert Jenrick | 743 cc844-5 (Link to this contribution)

No. There may be a good-faith disagreement between the hon. and learned Lady and me, but I do not...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c846 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairship again, Dame Rosie.

Here we go again: it is d...

Edward Leigh | 743 c846 (Link to this contribution)

We have heard that before, but let us address the narrow legal point. Does the hon. Gentleman thi...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 cc846-7 (Link to this contribution)

What we are seeing is complete shambolic incompetence in the asylum system, and if cases are not ...

Gavin Robinson | 743 c847 (Link to this contribution)

On the point the shadow Minister made about political choices, he is valiantly opposing the Bill ...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c847 (Link to this contribution)

I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments, but we have made it absolutely clear that the Bill i...

Imran Hussain | 743 c847 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is right about the purpose of the Bill, which is one of the most flagrant attempts...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 cc847-8 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for his powerful intervention. It is difficult to determine the true purpo...

Tom Hunt | 743 c848 (Link to this contribution)

The shadow Minister knows that our view on the Government Benches is that the problem cannot be c...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c848 (Link to this contribution)

It is clear that in order to stop the Tory small boats chaos, we have to smash the criminal smugg...

John Hayes | 743 c848 (Link to this contribution)

The shadow Minister makes a good point about co-operation. He is right that the only way to tackl...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c849 (Link to this contribution)

As I said yesterday, there are pragmatic, sensible things the Government have been doing that we ...

Desmond Swayne | 743 c849 (Link to this contribution)

The mantra has been clear for many months from the Opposition Benches, including from the shadow ...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c849 (Link to this contribution)

On safe and legal routes, as a priority I would look at things like the Afghan schemes, which are...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c849 (Link to this contribution)

To draw the shadow Minister back to the amendments and the interim measures of the Strasbourg cou...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c849 (Link to this contribution)

When we enter Government, as I hope we will, everything we do will be based on a test: is it affo...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c850 (Link to this contribution)

If the hon. Gentleman does not mind, I will make a little more progress and then come back to him...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 c850 (Link to this contribution)

Order. It is the convention that any Member wishing to intervene should have been in the Chamber ...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c850 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Dame Rosie. It is against the backdrop of chaos, confusion and “party before country” ...

Stella Creasy | 743 cc850-1 (Link to this contribution)

Those who are worried about social media may also find it useful to use their phones in the Chamb...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 cc851-3 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. As we have also seen in the letter that Nathalie Loiseau ...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 cc853-4 (Link to this contribution)

It may be helpful if I clarify a few things. First, if colleagues wish to intervene, it is import...

Jeremy Wright | 743 c854 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Dame Rosie. In fact I have two amendments—amendments 54 and 55—on which I wish to focu...

John Hayes | 743 c854 (Link to this contribution)

I work closely with my right hon. and learned Friend in a number of ways, as he knows, and I am w...

Jeremy Wright | 743 cc854-5 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend knows that the Attorney General is consulted on a variety of different legal...

Stella Creasy | 743 c855 (Link to this contribution)

I am pleased to hear what the right hon. and learned Gentleman has to say on the question of inte...

Jeremy Wright | 743 cc855-6 (Link to this contribution)

I suspect that what the hon. Lady is referring to is the statement of incompatibility with the co...

William Cash | 743 c856 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. and learned Friend, who has great experience as a former Attorney General, agr...

Jeremy Wright | 743 cc856-7 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. I know, Dame Rosie, you would not want me t...

Joanna Cherry | 743 cc857-9 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Kenilworth and Southam (Sir Jere...

William Cash | 743 c859 (Link to this contribution)

Without prejudice to the content of what the hon. and learned Lady is saying otherwise, may I sim...

Joanna Cherry | 743 cc859-860 (Link to this contribution)

I certainly will not be supporting the other notwithstanding clauses in the Bill, but I felt that...

John Hayes | 743 c860 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. and learned Lady is making a good point about the checks and balances that prevent arbit...

Joanna Cherry | 743 cc860-2 (Link to this contribution)

The Bill seeks to carve out a group of people coming to our country, or who are in our country, f...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 c862 (Link to this contribution)

I call the Chair of the Select Committee on Justice.

Robert Neill | 743 cc862-3 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh South West (Joanna Cherry) a...

Danny Kruger | 743 c863 (Link to this contribution)

I have great respect for the argument that my hon. Friend is making, and I defer to his experienc...

Robert Neill | 743 c863 (Link to this contribution)

I think my hon. Friend needs to bear in mind that the application that was made to Strasbourg was...

Robert Buckland | 743 c863 (Link to this contribution)

In fact, further than that, there are already proposed reforms to the interim procedure, which wi...

Robert Neill | 743 cc863-5 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. and learned Friend is entirely correct, and he and I would probably have very happi...

John Hayes | 743 c865 (Link to this contribution)

I am loth to interrupt my hon. Friend as he is describing not so much the separation of powers as...

Robert Neill | 743 c865 (Link to this contribution)

I would make two points about that. In fact, I supported the noble Lord Cameron in that regard be...

William Cash | 743 c865 (Link to this contribution)

Would my hon. Friend reflect on this fact about prisoner voting? I discussed the matter with the ...

Robert Neill | 743 c865 (Link to this contribution)

That is why, as it happens, I will not vote against this Bill, because although I have some misgi...

Jeremy Wright | 743 c865 (Link to this contribution)

I do not want to prolong the discussion about prisoner voting, but like my hon. Friend the Member...

Robert Neill | 743 c866 (Link to this contribution)

I think that is right. As I recall, the UK Government put a motion before this House, which the H...

Gavin Robinson | 743 cc866-7 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Sir Robert Neill), Chair ...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 c867 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way and giving me a chance to put him right. I off...

Gavin Robinson | 743 cc867-8 (Link to this contribution)

If the Minister is prepared to say that the only refugees who can come to the United Kingdom from...

Stephen Kinnock | 743 c868 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise if I did not fully understand the hon. Gentleman’s point in his question to me when I...

Gavin Robinson | 743 cc868-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad to accept that intervention, and the shadow Minister has made his point and I have made...

Gavin Robinson | 743 cc869-870 (Link to this contribution)

I will not take an intervention at this stage, because there are a few elements that I want to ge...

Stella Creasy | 743 c870 (Link to this contribution)

I appreciate the case the hon. Gentleman is making. My concern is that the Angesom judgment—I loo...

Gavin Robinson | 743 cc870-1 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is entirely right in the quote that she shares. It is fair to say that the Governme...

Robert Buckland | 743 c871 (Link to this contribution)

I spoke yesterday to the amendments that stand in my name and are potentially subject to Division...

Jeremy Wright | 743 c871 (Link to this contribution)

I understand the argument that my right hon. and learned Friend is making, and I will not be dogm...

Robert Buckland | 743 cc871-3 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right. I think I have said outside the Chamber tha...

William Cash | 743 c874 (Link to this contribution)

First, does my right hon. and learned Friend understand that there are those who argue that the r...

Robert Buckland | 743 cc874-5 (Link to this contribution)

I have sources that I was looking at to research this speech. I will send my hon. Friend the link...

Gavin Robinson | 743 c875 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Member for his contribution. He would accept that the...

Robert Buckland | 743 cc875-6 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman makes a powerful point. I hope that is taken up in the other place as well. As...

Stella Creasy | 743 cc876-881 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for South Swindon (Sir Robert Buckla...

Danny Kruger | 743 c881 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Lady is constantly and sarcastically evoking Winston Churchill. Obviously he did sign up...

Stella Creasy | 743 cc881-2 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was not here earlier to be part of the conversation. I am sure...

Suella Braverman | 743 cc882-3 (Link to this contribution)

I rise to speak in support of amendment 11, tabled by my right hon. Friend the Member for Newark ...

Patrick Grady | 743 c883 (Link to this contribution)

I am not sure why we have to be frightened of foreign courts. What exactly is wrong with a foreig...

Suella Braverman | 743 cc883-4 (Link to this contribution)

I will tell the hon. Gentleman where we have a problem with a foreign court. In that scenario, wh...

John Hayes | 743 c884 (Link to this contribution)

Surely on that basis almost any deportation could be blocked, for few countries in the world can ...

Suella Braverman | 743 cc884-5 (Link to this contribution)

I am afraid that my right hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight that point. Article 3, and...

Suella Braverman | 743 c885 (Link to this contribution)

I will not give way.

Is it a forum that does not share our values, that has made decisions ...

Stella Creasy | 743 c885 (Link to this contribution)

I know the right hon. and learned Lady feels this passionately, but will she clarify her concern ...

Suella Braverman | 743 c885 (Link to this contribution)

NATO is not a court. I am slightly embarrassed that I have to make that clear to the hon. Lady, a...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 c885 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I now have to announce the results of today’s deferred Divisions.

On the draft Immig...

Patrick Grady | 743 cc886-8 (Link to this contribution)

What a privilege it is to follow the former Home Secretary. The debate has really lit up. There w...

Baroness Winterton of Doncaster | 743 c888 (Link to this contribution)

I will now announce the results of the Ballot held today for the election of the Chair of the Def...

Tim Loughton | 743 cc888-9 (Link to this contribution)

I will be slightly unfashionable and talk to the amendment, rather than regurgitating some of the...

Alison Thewliss | 743 c889 (Link to this contribution)

I have heard the hon. Gentleman make that point before about people who come and cannot be sent b...

Tim Loughton | 743 cc889-892 (Link to this contribution)

I know it happens already. That is what I have been saying, and the hon. Lady at least credits me...

Tim Farron | 743 cc892-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to serve under your guidance this afternoon, Sir Roger, and to take part in a de...

William Cash | 743 c894 (Link to this contribution)

I mentioned this question of global leadership in my speech yesterday for a very good reason. It ...

Tim Farron | 743 c894 (Link to this contribution)

Of course it is a given that the law changes, and laws change via a variety of different means, i...

Tim Loughton | 743 c895 (Link to this contribution)

On the point about declaring a country safe, France, Germany and other EU countries have decided ...

Tim Farron | 743 c895 (Link to this contribution)

I think on balance we would say that Albania probably is safe, and the bulk of returns we have ha...

Tim Loughton | 743 c895 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has just made a discretionary judgment on the safeness of Albania, having said...

Tim Farron | 743 cc895-7 (Link to this contribution)

I have never been an apologist for other European countries: they make their own decisions, but t...

Roger Gale | 743 c897 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Before I call Sir John Hayes, may I remind the House that this is not Second Reading debat...

John Hayes | 743 c897 (Link to this contribution)

The debate on the Government side of the Chamber, as my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing ...

John Hayes | 743 c898 (Link to this contribution)

I do not know whether the hon. Lady is the first or the second, but I happily give way to her.

Alison Thewliss | 743 c898 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps the right hon. Member would like to correct the record. Most people who come on small boa...

John Hayes | 743 cc898-9 (Link to this contribution)

What we certainly know about them all is that before they got here they have travelled through sa...

Tim Farron | 743 c899 (Link to this contribution)

I did not mean to intervene, but the right hon. Gentleman has tempted me. This is not a liberal t...

John Hayes | 743 c899 (Link to this contribution)

My opinion of the hon. Gentleman has soared to an even greater height. I knew he was the best of ...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c899 (Link to this contribution)

Perhaps I could just elaborate on the point my right hon. Friend is making. What is most likely t...

John Hayes | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend explains exactly the point I was making. The intentions of the Bill are put ...

Sarah Dines | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

All the British people expect is real fairness and hearings with real judges. We have been speaki...

John Hayes | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

In that pithy intervention, my hon. Friend has described much of the fundamental problem of allow...

Edward Leigh | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend give way, on that point?

John Hayes | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Derbyshire Dales (Miss Dines) advanced so many compelling arguments...

Edward Leigh | 743 c900 (Link to this contribution)

People talk about the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg as if it were rather like our ...

John Hayes | 743 c901 (Link to this contribution)

It is that to which I was alluding. The separation that exists in this country between the judici...

Edward Leigh | 743 c901 (Link to this contribution)

There is a bourgeois liberal incarnate!

John Hayes | 743 c901 (Link to this contribution)

I exclude the hon. Member for Westmorland and Lonsdale. He is liberal but he is not bourgeois—at ...

John Hayes | 743 cc901-2 (Link to this contribution)

He definitely is not.

The amendments that disapply the Human Rights Act are fundamental to ...

Diana Johnson | 743 cc903-7 (Link to this contribution)

This has been a very interesting Committee, ranging from the metaphysical to MPs feeding each oth...

David Simmonds | 743 cc904-9 (Link to this contribution)

May I start by drawing the Committee’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financia...

Diana Johnson | 743 c909 (Link to this contribution)

I am so pleased that we are hearing this very clear explanation of the court and the judges; afte...

David Simmonds | 743 cc909-910 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Lady. I am not a lawyer, but I served as a magistrate in this cou...

Alison Thewliss | 743 cc910-4 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (David Simmonds). It...

Nick Fletcher | 743 cc912-6 (Link to this contribution)

It has been a very long debate. I have listened with intent to everybody who has spoken, and I ad...

Tom Hunt | 743 c916 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to contribute to this incredibly important debate. I was very happy to sign the ...

Bob Seely | 743 c916 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend give way?

Tom Hunt | 743 cc916-7 (Link to this contribution)

I will not be giving way.

I will be supporting amendment 11 in relation to the Human Rights...

William Cash | 743 c917 (Link to this contribution)

Just to take my hon. Friend’s point, with which I completely agree, even further, does he agree t...

Tom Hunt | 743 c917 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. There are intolerable pressures being placed on this country ...

John Hayes | 743 c917 (Link to this contribution)

That view is held not just by my hon. Friend, by many in the House and by many in the country, bu...

Tom Hunt | 743 cc917-8 (Link to this contribution)

We have heard lots of arguments about the ECHR and about Winston Churchill forming it. That has b...

Bob Seely | 743 c918 (Link to this contribution)

I am sorry to have got to the debate a bit late. I will talk in general about some of the amendme...

Alun Cairns | 743 c918 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend recognise that we should be focusing on the practicalities of what is achieva...

Bob Seely | 743 c918 (Link to this contribution)

Absolutely. If the Rwandans turn round and say, “We’ve changed our minds,” we will be in a world ...

David Simmonds | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making a series of important points. Does he agree that one of the reasons why ...

Bob Seely | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a good point. Other parts of the country would do well to step up to the pla...

Jess Phillips | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

Turn around and face the Committee!

Bob Seely | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

I am so sorry, I thank the hon. Lady.

Option 2 is that some of the legal appeals work and s...

Tom Hunt | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

What will make the liberal elite the happiest will be to see the Bill strangled in the courts bec...

Bob Seely | 743 c919 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a point about the happiness of the liberal elites, but he is giving a subjec...

Steve Double | 743 c920 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not important to note that if the Bill is killed off on Third Reading, there is no opportun...

Bob Seely | 743 c920 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for that important point. In the WhatsApp group in which we were chatting ...

Kevin Foster | 743 c920 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. I am listening to his points with interest. As one who cou...

Bob Seely | 743 c920 (Link to this contribution)

I agree and I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. If there was a chance of it moving further, ...

Matt Hancock | 743 c921 (Link to this contribution)

On precisely that point, is there not a further practical addition to my hon. Friend’s argument, ...

Bob Seely | 743 c921 (Link to this contribution)

I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention. It is good to see him.

On rule 39, the ...

Alun Cairns | 743 c921 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an extremely important point. Before he moves on to the last part of his...

Bob Seely | 743 c921 (Link to this contribution)

I quite agree. I think that we are in danger of reverse-engineering a load of opinions on the Eur...

David Simmonds | 743 c921 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is, once again, making some powerful points. Does he recognise that the number of ...

Bob Seely | 743 c922 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend has made a valuable point, and one that I was about to come on to. Why do some peo...

Robert Neill | 743 c922 (Link to this contribution)

I have been agreeing with the basic thrust that it is the Bill or nothing, but may I gently say s...

Bob Seely | 743 c922 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend has made an excellent point. He is, of course, an eminent lawyer, and I, frankly a...

Robert Buckland | 743 c922 (Link to this contribution)

I am glad that my hon. Friend is making this point. I do not blame him because it is easy to elid...

Bob Seely | 743 c923 (Link to this contribution)

I am delighted that my right hon. and learned Friend has intervened, because those are exactly th...

Roger Gale | 743 c923 (Link to this contribution)

Order. Just before we proceed and I call Jerome Mayhew, can I gently say that it has not escaped ...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 cc923-4 (Link to this contribution)

Thank you, Sir Roger. I should start my speech with a personal apology for not having been here f...

Virendra Sharma | 743 c924 (Link to this contribution)

Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that the massive amount of money wasted on the Rwanda plan woul...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c924 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman’s intervention, which allows me to highlight the Government’...

Alun Cairns | 743 c924 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an extremely important point, particularly on the costs. Is he aware tha...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c924 (Link to this contribution)

I was not aware of that, but it adds grist to the mill and strength to the Government’s argument ...

Luke Evans | 743 c924 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend took an intervention from the hon. Member for Ealing, Southall (Mr Sharma), who ta...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c925 (Link to this contribution)

The phrase “safe and legal routes” feels right, doesn’t it? It feels like we should be in favour ...

Mark Pritchard | 743 c925 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. This Bill is dealing with a lot of the pull factors...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c925 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for those excellent points. They highlight one reason why t...

Bob Seely | 743 c925 (Link to this contribution)

I find it frustrating when people, especially Opposition Members, talk about the need for safe an...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c926 (Link to this contribution)

I am pretty settled with that last sentence. We have been a place of safety for about 80,000 from...

Luke Evans | 743 c926 (Link to this contribution)

It is exactly that: the British people decided. Does my hon. Friend believe that the right approa...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c926 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes another good point. We must not forget that our asylum policy depends on the...

Tim Loughton | 743 c926 (Link to this contribution)

As the author of the safe and legal routes amendment to the Illegal Migration Bill, I will shed a...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c926 (Link to this contribution)

I am in accord with every point my hon. Friend made. There is real anger on the doorsteps. I am l...

David Simmonds | 743 c927 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to the East of England Local Government Association...

Jerome Mayhew | 743 c927 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is exactly right. My constituents are generous minded and welcoming, but they do n...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 c928 (Link to this contribution)

With your permission Sir Roger, may I on behalf of His Majesty’s Government pass on my sincere co...

Roger Gale | 743 c928 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I am sorry to have to interrupt on such a sensitive issue, but Mr Speaker intends to make ...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 cc928-931 (Link to this contribution)

I am very grateful for that guidance.

May I start by turning to those who have contributed ...

Robert Buckland | 743 c929 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. and learned Friend makes an important point about the extent to which the courts should a...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 cc929-932 (Link to this contribution)

I hear what my right hon. and learned Friend says about section 3 and I agree with him wholeheart...

Jonathan Gullis | 743 c932 (Link to this contribution)

The Minister just said that there will be circumstances in which we will ignore pyjama injunction...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 cc932-3 (Link to this contribution)

I could not have been clearer. There is the confirmation that we have the power, we would use the...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 c933 (Link to this contribution)

I will not give way.

We are unequivocal that that is simply not the case, and article 2 of ...

William Cash | 743 c933 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. and learned Friend give way?

Michael Tomlinson | 743 c933 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way, but my hon. Friend must be conscious that we are up against a very tight deadlin...

William Cash | 743 c933 (Link to this contribution)

On the statements he made with regard to rule 39 and so forth, can my hon. and learned Friend exp...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 c933 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend has heard what I said on that point. I respect and admire him; he knows the esteem...

Michael Tomlinson | 743 cc933-4 (Link to this contribution)

May I finish my point in response to the hon. Member for Belfast East? I hope I can reassure him ...

Roger Gale | 743 c934 (Link to this contribution)

Amendment 11 has been proposed. Mr Jenrick, do you wish to press it to a vote, or do you wish to ...

Robert Jenrick | 743 c934 (Link to this contribution)

With your permission, Sir Roger, I would like to withdraw it. However, if you are agreeable, I wi...

Roger Gale | 743 c934 (Link to this contribution)

We will come to that in due course.

Robert Jenrick | 743 c934 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

6.54 pm...

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