Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss:

Lords amendment 3E, and Government motion to di...

Madam Deputy Speaker, here we are again—you were in the Chair the last time we considered this Bi...

I am struck by how reasonable Lord Hope’s amendment seems in setting up an independent body to as...

I will address that amendment in a few minutes, but there already is an independent body: the mon...

My party will support the Government, with the exception of one amendment. I have previously aske...

I cannot tell the hon. Gentleman that any two countries’ systems are the same. As I have previous...

Many people share the Government’s ambition to stop the boats. Would these Lords amendments not m...

I know my right hon. Friend has taken a close interest in the Bill since the outset, and he is ri...

I reciprocate the Minister’s comment because, in so far as I may have rather infelicitously sugge...

Once again, I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention. He has a tendency to repea...

Will the Minister ensure that the report is laid before Parliament so that we can review it?

The monitoring committee’s work is independent. Commitments have already been made that there wil...

I appreciate the tone and manner in which the Minister is approaching this difficult issue, but c...

I am grateful to my hon. and learned Friend for his engagement in the Chamber during previous deb...

It is one thing to hear the Minister give the assurances he has given today, but the fact remains...

The answer is that this Prime Minister has placed around his Cabinet table the Minister for Veter...

I thank the noble Lords in the other place for all the hard work they have done in trying to amen...

I simply want to put it to the hon. Gentleman that, as the rule of law includes the basis of sove...

Lectures about flogging dead horses in the context of a debate about Rwanda really is quite extra...

Where would the proposed returns unit send illegals to, and what if the countries concerned did n...

I am pleased the right hon. Gentleman has asked me that question, as we often get this point abou...

I thank the shadow Minister for giving way. I find it interesting that he has suggested that all ...

The key point is that, under the last Labour Government, returns were working. A part of that, I ...

Given that the noble Lord Coaker has brought this forward in one shape or another several times, ...

It is for the simple reason that we want to put in the Bill an articulation of what has already b...

Bearing in mind the short time, I will do my best to speak briefly. We have four amendments from ...

I share my right hon. and learned Friend’s reservations about the inability of this House to reco...

Up to a point, Lord Copper. I think the second proposed new subsection in the amendment—proposed ...

I call the SNP spokesman.

I will start in order with Lords amendment 1D in the name of Lord Coaker. The Minister asked why ...

Order. We have very little time left so I must put on a formal time limit of two minutes.

I will be brief and focus entirely on Lord Coaker’s amendment 1D, which I have already mentioned ...

The Government’s motion to disagree with Lords amendment 1D is a motion to disagree with the Gove...

As I was watching Aston Villa smash Arsenal on Sunday, my thoughts turned to today’s debate becau...

We are at that stage in the legislative process where Government obstinacy sometimes overcomes ra...

I call the Minister.

I am very grateful to you, Madam Deputy Speaker. With the leave of the House, I would like to mak...