Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

With this it will be convenient to discuss Lords amendment 10F, and Government motion to disagree...

It appears that I was indeed optimistic last week when I foresaw the end of ping-pong and looked ...

I am sure that, like me, the Minister will have read the Law Society of England and Wales’s brief...

I certainly will. I am very grateful indeed to the hon. and learned Lady, because she gets to the...

I say this with all humility and with respect for the Minister, who I know is an honourable perso...

I am very grateful indeed to the hon. Gentleman. As always, he engages with the substance of the ...

I know that there is a problem in detaining illegal migrants at the moment under habeas corpus, b...

My right hon. Friend might have heard a few words from the Prime Minister in that regard this mor...

Before my right hon. and learned Friend moves away from the treaty, could he help with some clari...

As ever, I am grateful to my right hon. and learned Friend for his engagement, both inside and ou...

Would my right hon. and learned Friend also care to note that Lord Hoffman, in the case of R v. L...

My hon. Friend has also been a consistent member of these ping-pong sessions and he has consisten...

I note what the Minister said about last Friday but, if Rwanda is truly safe, why are Rwandans ex...

The proof of the safety is in the binding international treaty between two international partners...

The obvious reason why Rwandans are not covered by the Bill is because returning a Rwandan to Rwa...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who has been closely following these proceedings not just throug...

Will the Minister give way?

I will make some progress, as I have given way too much. I have taken criticism for the number of...

The Minister may have read about my constituent in The Guardian today: a man who was originally a...

This amendment is unnecessary. As I have told the hon. Lady and tried to explain to the House, th...

I call the shadow Minister

There is not a huge amount more to be said about this sham, this con of a Bill, that has not alre...

Given that a permanent secretary has said that there is no evidence the plan will work as a deter...

My hon. Friend is right: the test of such a policy is whether it will work as a deterrent. When w...

My hon. Friend is making an excellent speech. Does he agree that the tokenism of the worst sort t...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right about that, although I had forgotten chapter 562 in this never...

In the unlikely event that we have a Labour Government, would the shadow Minister be happy if fut...

I will advise the other place to do what it is doing, as a revising Chamber: standing up for its ...

The Minister made the point that we have entered into a treaty and been told that Rwanda is safe....

I agree with my hon. Friend. One reason we are seeing such a strong pushback from the other place...

On that point, will my hon. Friend give way?

Order. Before the hon. Lady makes another intervention, I must draw the House’s attention to the ...

I withdraw my intervention.

I thank the hon. Lady for her courtesy.

The amendment in the name of the noble Lord Hope simply requires the Home Secretary to lay a stat...

As I have just intimated, there will be an immediate time limit on Back-Bench speeches of three m...

In view of the time, I wish to focus what I say on the second part of amendment 3G(8). It is clea...

The Minister opened by saying that he had looked forward last week to not debating the Bill. I, t...

I congratulate my hon. Friend on using every procedure available to her to state the SNP’s opposi...

I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and note on the record that Labour did not vote on a...

Does my hon. Friend agree that the £11,000 it costs per person to deport to Rwanda could be used ...

I wholeheartedly agree. I know of many cases of people who have been sorely let down by the Gover...

May I start by agreeing with what the Opposition spokesman, the hon. Member for Aberavon (Stephen...

Although at times I agree with quite a lot of what the hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham...

I am mindful of time, as always, and the time is quite rightly being reduced as we deal with this...

Throughout the proceedings on this Bill, my party both here and in the other place has by and lar...

I think this is a disgraceful Bill and I want to oppose it at every opportunity. However, to foll...

I hear impatience and irritation from the Conservative Benches that we are still here debating th...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not give way, because we are about to finish and it is unfair on others.

Lords amend...

With the leave of the House, may I address directly my right hon. and learned Friends the Members...

That concludes consideration of the Lords message of 18 April relating to the Safety of Rwanda (A...