Immigration Bill

Moved by

Lord Alton of Liverpool

My Lords, the noble Earl just told the House that he believes the Government’s position strikes t...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. In response to a Written Question that I tab...

My Lords, if they do not have legitimate reasons to be here, they will be deported in the normal ...

My Lords, briefly, I support Motion A1. I have participated in a number of debates in this House ...

My Lords, I am rather puzzled. If conditions for asylum seekers are so difficult in this country,...

My Lords, today is a day for pithy comments rather than rehearsing arguments that I have already ...

The amendment your Lordships sent to the Commons on allowing asylum seekers the right to work aft...

My Lords, Amendment 59B, proposed in lieu of Amendment 59, while slightly less radical than the e...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Earl for his reply. However, I would beg the House to consid...

Moved by

Earl Howe

My Lords, we come now to the issue of overseas domestic workers. I very much hope that the House ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to see the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, in her place today. She unders...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, has done a sterling job on this issue, as have others on p...

My Lords, I do not doubt for a moment the good intentions of those who have put forward this amen...

We continue to support the Ewins recommendations on overseas domestic workers, as well as the ame...

My noble friend Lord Green said that the Government have moved a very long way but I cannot agree...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the questions and comments that noble Lords have made. I r...

The noble Earl may remember, or may have been briefed on it, that a meeting was convened by his n...

My Lords, as I said in my earlier remarks, we have accepted in principle the need to bring employ...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

My Lords, I shall also speak to my Motion D.

It is clear that both the Government and noble...

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

My Lords, immediately before I sought to test the opinion of the House on Amendment 84 on Report,...

I should inform the House that if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment C2 by reas...

My Lords, I wish to speak to Amendment D1, but as a member of the all-party inquiry into detentio...

My Lords, I very much support the noble Lord, Lord Ramsbotham, in his Motion and I hope noble Lor...

The noble Baroness is quoting at length from documents which none of us has seen elsewhere. She a...

My Lords, the questions that I asked were put to me this morning. The quotation that I read was a...

My Lords, I will speak only to Motion C, which I support, along with Amendment 85A. On Report, wh...

My Lords, although I support my noble friend’s amendment, others have spoken to it and I do not w...

My Lords, I find this much more difficult than some noble Lords. Motion C1 in the name of the nob...

While it is welcome that the Government now acknowledge that long-term detention without judicial...

My Lords, will the Minister clarify for my benefit a matter which concerns me? Does he agree that...

My Lords, on the last point, in respect of any answer to a writ of habeas corpus it would be poss...

Oh!

How prescient I have been, it would appear.

In those circumstances, I respectfully suggest ...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble and learned Lord for his response and to all noble Lord...

Moved by

Lord Keen of Elie

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

Moved by

Earl Howe

My Lords, let me begin by saying to the House that I entirely recognise the need for the Governme...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

My Lords, I should say at the outset that the Home Secretary has been kind enough to suggest that...

My Lords, I add my congratulations to the government contribution to dealing with children, albei...

My Lords, I was recently in northern Iraq, visiting internally displaced people and Syrian refuge...

My Lords, like others I recognise the contribution that the Government are making in money and pe...

I will be brief, since the arguments for this amendment have already been powerfully made. I also...

My Lords, I am very sorry that the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, appeared to be so dismissive of the man...

Does the noble Earl not agree that the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, is right to say that it is no...

I do not agree with the noble Baroness, because of the risks that I have already outlined. If we ...

My Lords, of course I welcome what the Government are doing in the region. It is good, and no one...