Immigration Bill

My Lords, Amendment 184 and the two clause stand part debates in respect of Clauses 21 and 22 giv...

My Lords, before the Minister replies to the noble Lords, Lord Kennedy and Lord Paddick, may I ad...

I am obliged to the noble Lords, Lord Paddick, Lord Kennedy and Lord Alton, for their observation...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for what he said about the training of immigration office...

Clearly, I will not comment on the detail of individual cases in this context. Those findings wer...

My Lords, on that very point, I know that the Minister cannot do it today, but would he be prepar...

I should add that the guidance on immigration officers’ use of powers is set out in the enforceme...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords, Lord Alton of Liverpool and Lord Kennedy of Southwark, for spe...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

185: Clause 25, page 31, line 30, leave out “, or intends to ma...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 185 standing in my name and that of my noble friend Baroness Ha...

My Lords, during the excellent remarks of the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, in introducing his amendm...

My Lords, having visited Yarl’s Wood several times in the past, I have noted the deep anxiety of ...

I am obliged to noble Lords. I shall begin by addressing the points raised by the noble Lord, Lor...

Can the Minister tell us the difference between a full search and a strip search?

It is set down in detail, but in general it means that someone is not stripped. It means that art...

My Lords, I think that some Members of your Lordships’ House are still struggling to work out how...

The noble Baroness is of course quite right and I apologise to the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, f...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for his explanation. As noble Lords will be aware, m...

Before I call the noble Lord to move his Amendment 194, I should point out that if it were agreed...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

194: Schedule 5, page 94, line 13, leave out from “application”...

My Lords, I move the amendment in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee. We also have A...

My Lords, I am obliged to the noble Lord. As he indicated, Amendment 194 would remove the ability...

I see the need for the amendments, but will the noble and learned Lord explain further how we hav...

It may be that the Scots only recently had a look at it. I am not in a position to elaborate, but...

That is very helpful, thank you.

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I shall go on to deal with government Amendment 214B, which is not concerned with warrants per se...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for the explanations that he has given. I still have conc...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

195: Schedule 5, page 94, line 14, after “(b)” insert “sub...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

202: Schedule 5, page 97, line 36, leave out “28FB(1C)” an...

Moved by

Lord Paddick

210: Clause 29, page 36, line 2, after second “State” insert “r...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 210, in my name and that of my noble friend Lady Hamwee, I shall sp...

My Lords, this group of amendments concerns the supply of information to the Secretary of State a...

I am obliged to the noble Lords, Lord Paddick and Lord Kennedy of Southwark, for their observatio...

The noble and learned Lord has gone through the various bodies to which we can complain. However,...

On the last point, the Secretary of State will act reasonably, and is lawfully obliged to act rea...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for the explanations that he has given. As he said, ...

I should have added that Independent Police Complaints Commission’s remit was extended to investi...

I am very grateful to the Minister for that.

As I was saying, I expect that we would find i...

Moved by

Lord Bates

214: Schedule 6, page 100, line 9, leave out “Licensing” and inse...

Moved by

Lord Bates

214B: Clause 30, page 37, line 27, at end insert—

“( ) The ...

Moved by

Lord Bates

214E: After Clause 30, insert the following new Clause—

“Po...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

215A: Clause 32, page 38, line 13, leave out “bail” and inse...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Paddick and I have a number of amendments in this group, and we ha...

My Lords, I hope it may be for the convenience of the Committee if I observe that, with regard to...

Very briefly, I support Amendment 215A because I absolutely agree that this is not a trivial matt...

My Lords, I intervene briefly to support the point that the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, and prev...

My Lords, for a long time I have been concerned about immigration detention and I have therefore ...

My Lords, my noble friends have been tempted to move into the next group of amendments. I can see...

My Lords, the intervention by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, is helpful in respect of thi...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness and to noble Lords for their observations on this part of the ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for giving that clarification. It would be a convenience ...

I am most obliged to the noble Lord and I undertake to write on that point.

The government ...

My Lords, I think we are all Lords, whether Lords or Baronesses. I am obviously pleased to hear t...