Immigration Bill

My Lords, before speaking to the amendments in my name and those of the noble Baronesses, Lady Ha...

My Lords, were my noble friend Lord Avebury able to be here, I think he, too, would have started ...

My Lords, I rise to support the various amendments in this group, focused in particular on the ca...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for using one word especially—the word “hope”....

My Lords, I support the thrust of these amendments. I shall refer to two or three specific points...

My Lords, at Second Reading I said that indefinite detention without charge was completely repugn...

My Lords, I will briefly intervene to support the speeches that have been made thus far in favour...

My Lords, I support this run of amendments. I do so not with a lot of expertise but with real puz...

My Lords, I find myself once again in a minority of one in the Committee, but I am reassured that...

My Lords, given that my noble friend has placed a great deal of reliance on public opinion and ho...

Yes, I certainly agree that detention is a very expensive business in all circumstances; that is ...

I am not sure whether the noble Lord has read the report of the inquiry to which a number of us c...

Yes indeed, but I would imagine that the conditions are very different in Hong Kong and to a cert...

My Lords, this may be the last intervention, before the noble Lord sits down—again, using the lan...

The noble Baroness’s point is rather similar to the point she made about bail earlier in the deba...

Does that include those who have sought asylum but whose claim has not been determined?

Not when I use the term, and I do not think that it applies to those people. It applies to those ...

I wonder whether I might, as it were, intervene at this point. I was obliged for the contribution...

I thank the Minister for giving way, and of course he is absolutely right. I am very proud of the...

One of the points that noble Lord referred to, and which was referred to also by the noble Lord, ...

I may be pre-empting what the noble and learned Lord is about to say. However, Stephen Shaw is ve...

The present published guidance means that we do not, and should not, detain pregnant women except...

I am sorry to press this. I accept that it is a matter of guidance. We put it in an amendment to ...

The clearest answer I can give is that it is a matter for consideration at present by Ministers. ...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Keen, has probably exhausted that line of argument for...

I am perfectly happy to write to noble Lords to give the figures for the number of pregnant women...

I am sorry to intervene again, but “indefinite” does not mean that people are there for ever. It ...

With respect, it is not possible to say to somebody that they will be in detention for X period i...

Can the Minister tell me in what circumstances that was suspended? Was it not because of a High C...

There was, among other things, a determination as to the legality of the process. I accept that—b...

My Lords, before the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, responds, the picture that has been painted of the ...

May I give one example of how this arises? There are some countries that require an interview wit...

I am not quite sure how that fits in with what I was saying. I am certainly not arguing that ther...

If the noble Baroness will allow me, one thing that does not seem to have been referred to in the...

Indeed, and the sentence before the one which I quoted referred to a system,

“both … more p...

I am sure the Committee will be relieved to know that I do not intend to say a great deal but, fi...

I believe that I did observe that we accept the broad thrust of his recommendations. At this stag...

That comes back to the point that the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, made about this legislation in...

With great respect, one could ask about one out of 64,000. It is not a question of which one but ...

I suspect that the noble Lord may be coming towards a halt, if not to the end of the issue. It oc...

I think I asked.

Well, I do not think the question was answered. Has the Minister any news about that? I appreciat...

The reason for asking about recommendation 62 was that the Minister sought to tell us there was n...

There could well be a secret review, but in so far as there is an ongoing review, we will write t...

Is the purpose of the Home Office internal review to decide whether to accept any or all of the S...

There is an internal review, and I have already indicated that we will set out the position in wr...

That is a very interesting reply; the Minister is not prepared to tell me what the purpose of the...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

224A: Schedule 7, page 106, line 16, leave out “may” and ins...

My Lords, this is a shorter group. Amendments 224A, 224B, 224C and 224D are in my name and that o...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness. As she observed, Amendments 224A and 224B would create a duty...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. It seems that whether the amendments are necessary...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

224E: Schedule 7, page 109, line 4, at end insert—

“...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

225: Clause 33, page 38, line 31, after “a” insert “material...

In moving Amendment 225, I shall speak also to Amendment 226, which takes us on to the next claus...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness. As she observes, Amendment 225 seeks to change the wording of...

My Lords, I did not disbelieve the noble and learned Lord when he said that there was case law on...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

226A: After Clause 33, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I apologise to the House; if any noble Lords have tried to follow my drafting, they may...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness. Just to be clear, if I were to take the black letter of her a...

I would be grateful if I could ask him something about these lists—whether the Government accept ...

I notice what the noble Lord says and I do not take issue with it. I add only that, where an indi...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. Jamaica is indeed an example, and maybe the Demo...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

226C: After Clause 33, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 226C standing in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Walla...

Again, I am obliged to the noble Baroness for highlighting this point. The new clause would requi...

How many people should have registered under this arrangement in 2014, or any other year that the...

I am obliged to the noble Lord for his three questions and I will write in response to provide th...

It was not, but I am grateful to the Minister for his response.

When the Minister writes, will he explain what he described to me to be functions of UK Visas and...