Immigration Bill

My Lords, my noble friend and I have one amendment in this group. It is an amendment to the Gover...

I am sorry to interrupt. Could the noble Baroness tell me which amendment she is speaking to?

It is Amendment 18, which is an amendment to government Amendment 17. From the way in which the M...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Ashton of Hyde, explained that he was hoping to make things a bit ...

My Lords, I welcome the greater powers for the Gangmasters Licensing Authority, both in this grou...

My Lords, several noble Lords said right at the beginning of our debate that these government ame...

I assure the noble Lord that I would be very happy to agree to a negative procedure. I have nothi...

I hear what the noble Lord says.

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

12: Clause 2, page 2, line 26, at end insert—

“( ) Not...

My Lords, Amendment 12, together with Amendments 14 and 38, is in my name and that of my noble fr...

My Lords, I share the concerns of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, in relation to Amendment 12. A...

My Lords, Amendment 12, moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, puts in the Bill a new clause t...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for giving us the opportunity to discuss this ...

I wonder if I could just come back. I am not so concerned with Amendment 12. I am much more conce...

I will try to be a bit more helpful if I can. I totally share the view of the noble and learned B...

The noble and learned Baroness expresses my view precisely. I am not particularly concerned with ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

15: Clause 2, page 2, line 35, leave out subsection (7)

Moved by

Lord Bates

16: Clause 3, page 2, line 40, leave out paragraph (a)

Moved by

Lord Bates

17: Clause 3, page 2, line 41, at end insert—

“( ) failure ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

19: Clause 3, page 2, line 45, leave out from “officer” to end of...

Moved by

Lord Bates

26: Clause 3, page 3, line 16, at end insert “other than one unde...

Moved by

Lord Bates

29: Clause 3, page 3, line 26, at end insert—

“( ) an offen...

Moved by

Lord Bates

39: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“Gangm...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendment 40 to 42, 60, 73, 77 and 214. I will allow the sponsors...

My Lords, earlier today a number of noble Lords referred to their misgivings about the changes be...

I, too, want more clarity on the same issue that we have been discussing for the past half hour o...

I thank the Minister for introducing the government amendments in this group, which set out the G...

My Lords, as the Minister will know, I am a refugee from the employment relations world and the l...

My Lords, the very fact that the noble Baroness raises this issue coming—and I do not say this at...

My Lords, I apologise for making what I suspect will be regarded as a somewhat pedantic point but...

My Lords, I am very grateful to noble Lords for speaking to their amendments in this group. I sha...

Is it the Government’s position that the resources currently available to the existing authoritie...

As I said, they are 25% higher than this time last year in terms of overall labour market enforce...

I hope the noble Lord will accept that it is dated Friday of last week because the Government wer...

Touché. I get that point. The point I am trying to make is a very serious one: that the Governmen...

One of the amendments to which I spoke, which was quite unrelated to any others, addressed the su...

It is one that we listed in the supply chain regulations which recently came before your Lordship...

Before my noble friend sits down I plead the excuse of being the Minister who moved the original ...

I would be delighted to ensure that the noble Lord, as a distinguished former Home Office Ministe...

Moved by

Lord Bates

40: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“Funct...

Moved by

Lord Bates

41: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“PACE ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

42: After Clause 7, insert the following new Clause—

“Relat...