Immigration Bill

My Lords, from these Benches we find little that is positive in the Bill. We fear that it will in...

It may be helpful if I note that there are 31 speakers for today’s Second Reading debate and that...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, on emphasising the importance of family...

My Lords, the Bill is the latest in a list of substantive immigration legislation that this House...

My Lords, opinion polls suggest that immigration is the number one issue at the moment. We know w...

My Lords, I should first declare an interest as I spent eight years as a director of the Refugee ...

With the noble Lord’s experience, both personal and political, would he not agree that the concen...

That is helpful. If I go back to my past with the Refugee Council, in conjunction with the Home O...

My Lords, I wish to address four aspects of this complex Bill. The first is the importance of the...

My Lords, this 162-page Bill ranges obviously fairly widely over immigration law. Today, therefor...

My Lords, I can match neither the expertise nor the radical force of my noble friends Lady Hamwee...

My Lords, I should like to contrast this Immigration Bill with the Bill which the Home Office lai...

My Lords, as I nervously got ready to speak, I noticed there was a mass migration from the Benche...

My Lords, I declare immediately that I am involved with a number of charities dealing with refuge...

My Lords, as someone who is not involved in this area of policy very regularly, I thank the Minis...

My Lords, there might be aspects of the Bill that are necessary, but, as the Minister indicated a...

My Lords, I begin by thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for remembering that I once report...

My Lords, when we debate Bills in Committee and on Report, we are liable to be accused of making ...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting the noble Lord in a Second Reading speech. I entirely agre...

The noble Lord, Lord Wallace, knows very well that it is a question not only of the shortage of s...

My Lords, it feels like déjà vu all over again. Not only are we faced with a very similar set of ...

My Lords, I agree with and admire the excellent speeches made by the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, my ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for writing to all those speaking today at 6.30 last...

My Lords, this Bill fills me with dismay and disquiet. To design legislation such as this, which ...

My Lords, the points I am raising on the Bill relate to the extension of the right to rent provis...

My Lords, I am in agreement with the Government’s overall aim to reduce immigration. However, lik...

My Lords, perhaps I should begin by declaring an interest as the son of an immigrant—admittedly o...

Does my noble friend’s German economist welcome the idea of the million refugees coming into Germ...

The discussion was largely technical, but the interesting point that he did make was that the Ger...

My Lords, it has been a heart-warming month in a way. We saw refugees from Syria being welcomed t...

My Lords, I would like to address the wider context of this Bill. It comes before us at a time wh...

How many people will die during that period in these cities?

This takes full account of those who will die and those who are born. It brings all three togethe...

I apologise for interrupting and thank the noble Lord for giving way. Does he also accept that th...

Yes, absolutely. There is a lot that we can be proud of in this country, not just our language, c...

My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. Coming rather at the end, I feel tha...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for giving way. Nobody is blaming migrants for the scale of b...

As a former councillor having faced some of these difficulties, I point out that rises in populat...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a landlord, as set out in the register of interests. I follow ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, who always brings a valuable perspective to ...

My Lords, before I get on to the Bill I start by paying tribute to the Minister, for whom I have ...

My Lords, I want an immigration system that is fair and just to British citizens and those who wa...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who participated in this debate. It has been a passionate debat...

I know that everybody wants to get off for Christmas, but I would be very grateful if the Ministe...

I am very happy to do that. A number of noble Lords asked me to write to them on various technica...

I realise that we are coming to a conclusion, but I think the Minister would agree that the theme...

The Bill does not represent a threat of destitution. We are simply making it clear that failed as...