Immigration Bill

My Lords, I shall speak also to government Amendments 95 to 99, 102 to 104, 107 to 116, 118 and 1...

My Lords, I have a number of amendments in this group; most of them are amendments to the governm...

My Lords, this group comprises a large group of government amendments in the name of the noble Lo...

My Lords, I understand the nature of the amendments and I understand them better now that the nob...

Moved by

Lord Bates

95: Schedule 2, page 67, line 23, at end insert—

“London Ha...

Moved by

Lord Bates

99: Schedule 2, page 69, line 3, at end insert—

“Plymouth C...

I beg to move.

Amendment 99A (to Amendment 99)

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

99A: Schedule 2, line 119, leave out “or before”

My Lords, with the leave of House, perhaps I may respond to some points made by the Minister on t...

To clarify for the noble Baroness, I understand her point. My understanding is that what we are s...

My Lords, I think I follow that—but what if the application for leave has initially been turned d...

I am happy to give that undertaking to the noble Baroness.

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Bates

102: Schedule 2, page 70, line 12, at end insert—

“(6A) If ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

107: Schedule 2, page 71, line 22, at end insert—

“(5A) If ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

118: Schedule 2, page 74, line 4, at end insert—

“Civic Gov...

Moved by

Lord Bates

119: Schedule 2, page 74, line 4, at end insert—

“Road Traf...

Moved by

Lord Bates

123: Schedule 2, page 75, line 18, at end insert—

“(8) The ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

127: Schedule 2, page 76, line 21, at end insert—

“(8) The ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

131: Schedule 2, page 78, line 23, at end insert—

“Taxis Ac...

Moved by

Lord Bates

132: Schedule 2, page 78, line 23, at end insert—

“Transiti...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Paddick and I do not wish to see Clause 12 stand part of the Bill....

My Lords, it might be helpful for noble Lords if I speak now to the government amendments to expl...

My Lords, at the risk of being a pedant, I point out that, strictly, these amendments are not mov...

I apologise. I speak to the amendments.

My Lords, I react with as much puzzlement to the Minister calling the government amendments “tech...

My Lords, I thank the two noble Baronesses who have spoken. I start by making the general point t...

My Lords, perhaps I might ask my noble friend a couple of questions. He said several times that t...

My Lords, in answer to the first question, the whole point is that it is not just sub-paragraph (...

My Lords, when paragraph 1(11) says,

“An illegal working closure notice may be issued only ...

My Lords, we are talking about illegal working by illegal immigrants. It is just a question of wh...

My Lords, that is exactly the point about the written words matching the oral words which has bee...

I think that the noble Baroness has made my point for me. If there is a civil penalty and busines...

My Lords, I am not suggesting that the Minister is misrepresenting the Government’s intention. I ...

Is the noble Baroness saying that if you do not pay a civil penalty for 15 years, you should get ...

My Lords, if you can—in the Minister’s words—get away with a conviction because of the Rehabilita...

I do understand, and it might be appropriate to continue this discussion between ourselves later,...

My Lords, I do not wish to continue that bit of the discussion, but perhaps I might put into a fu...

Moved by

Lord Rosser

133: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause—

“Pr...

My Lords, there are two amendments in this group, one in my name and in the names of my noble fri...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 134B, which is in my name. Last year, on what became the Mode...

My Lords, I wish to support Amendment 133, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, and to say a wor...

My Lords, I have my name to the first of this pair of amendments, but I congratulate the noble Lo...

My Lords, I share the condemnation of domestic slavery, which I am sure is shared by all Members ...

First, I shall clarify the figure that the noble Lord asked about. It is the figure quoted in the...

Yes, I quite see that. I would expect the people whom the noble Lord quoted to say what they said...

But does the noble Lord agree that they cannot come without visas?

I do not think that I understand the noble Lord’s point.

My Lords, I think that my question to the noble Lord may be the same as that asked by the noble L...

Well, they come in on a tied visa and then they do a runner and go and work for somebody else. Th...

My Lords, I hope that we are not moving from waiting for Ewins to looking for loopholes. I was a ...

I add one more voice from these Benches in support of the amendment. My noble friend Lord Hylton ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Rosser and Lord Hylton, for tabling these amendm...

Before the Minister sits down, I would be grateful if he would clarify the nature of the process ...

I will certainly give an undertaking to go away and reflect on the point that the noble Lord make...

Before I respond to the suggestion that the Minister has made, I take it from what he has said th...

Were it the case that we did not accept that there was any correlation with the visa tie, we woul...

I thank the Minister for that response. I also sense from his comments that the Independent Anti-...

The anti-slavery commissioner, Kevin Hyland, is independent, and thoroughly and robustly defends ...

I think there will be a degree of disappointment at the response we have had from the Minister to...

Moved by

Lord Kennedy of Southwark

134: After Clause 12, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, Amendment 134 in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Rosser, the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, as the noble Lord has said, my name is to this amendment. I am particularly delighted t...

My Lords, in supporting the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy of Southwark, and sup...

My Lords, Amendment 134, which I wish to support, is simple, just and proportionate in its aims. ...

My Lords, I am pleased to be able to speak in support of the amendment tabled by my noble friends...

I, too, welcome the support of the Labour Party and its conversion to this cause. It is hugely im...

My Lords, first, I welcome all those who now support so vigorously and enthusiastically the right...

My Lords, I am always heartened by the words of the noble Lord, Lord Roberts. I remember one rath...

My Lords, until seven years ago, I thought that Red Cross food parcels were handed out only to Br...

My Lords, I think that I may find myself in a small minority in this Committee, although, I have ...

The noble Lord referred to the position in most of the European Union where people have to wait f...

No. I am saying that we should keep it at 12 months in order that we are not more attractive than...

Amendment 134A in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and the noble Lord, Lord Paddick,...

The short answer is no. We have an asylum system which does not work as fast as people would like...

My Lords, this is an emotive issue. As the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, said, these are not new a...

Did the Minister listen to the employment statistics announced by one of our Ministers three week...

I am not aware of those statistics, but I will take a look at them.

There are about 600,000 vacancies in the UK, and there always are. It is frictional unemployment....

Thank you.

We will come to employment in a moment.

It is important that we protect the resident labour...

My Lords, in response to the comments made by the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpool, the Minist...

I completely agree that it is an important point and I will be happy to the write to the noble Lo...

I am grateful to the Minister for his response to the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy. Can he be clear i...

I take the point from the noble Lord, and that is why it would be better if our response was writ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in the debate. When applications for asylum tak...

Tabled by

Lord Hylton

134B: After Clause 12, insert the following new Clause—

“...

My Lords, I rise to confirm that I only spoke to my amendment and did not move it, but in doing s...

Moved by

Lord Bates

136: Schedule 3, page 81, line 8, after “if” insert “—

(a) ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

147: Schedule 3, page 87, line 7, leave out sub-paragraph (4)