Asylum Support (Amendment No. 3) Regulations 2015

My Lords, I want to say a few words in support of the Motion of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, ...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and my noble friend Lord Rosser. I apologise...

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. Listening to her speech a few minutes ago I ...

My Lords, I will make a very brief contribution to this debate and concentrate on aspects of the ...

My Lords, I suspect that the House will soon want to vote on this. I thank the noble Baroness and...

I wish to ask the Minister two very brief questions. First, the comment has been made, but not in...

I promise to be brief as much has been said already, but I cannot help saying that the Government...

My Lords, I contribute to this debate as somebody from Bristol, which is a city of sanctuary. Bri...

When the Minister replies to this debate, which I have found extraordinarily disturbing, I hope h...

My Lords, I will just add something very briefly to that. I was extremely disturbed personally by...

My Lords, first, I thank the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their Motions and all noble Lo...

But these things were all available to the asylum seeker before these changes were made, so the G...

Not all of them. In fact, in some cases, for single individuals, there is a small increase. These...

My Lords, this whole thing is shameful, but what the Minister has just said is quite unrealistic....

Our position is that we have gone into this in exhaustive detail, as my letter to the noble Baron...

It should not be up to other organisations to provide the evidence. The Minister very honestly sa...

We will, of course, continue to monitor the impact. We will continue to work through the National...

I declare an interest as the patron of the Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group, which does some excel...

I am happy to do that. We should constantly be listening, and I know that officials have engaged ...

The Minister referred to a review in 2016. When in 2016 will that review be completed?

There is not a fixed time. The normal time for changing benefits, or for a review to happen, is a...

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the noble Lords who have taken part in this debate. In some ...