Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, I will speak briefly in support of Amendments 8 and 9 about good character. Like the no...

My Lords, as we have heard, the Joint Committee on Human Rights spent quite a lot of time conside...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Hamwee has comprehensively explained the reasons for these amendme...

My Lords, I just second what everyone else has said, in particular the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, who...

My Lords, briefly, I offer Green group support for these amendments. The noble Lord, Lord Paddick...

My Lords, we strongly welcome Clause 1 and, as the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, said, in a Bill w...

I thank noble Lords, and I am sorry to disappoint the noble Lord, Lord Rosser..

I thank the...

Can the noble Lord address the point that I made, which I think was in the JCHR report? The court...

I thank the noble Baroness for her request for clarification. Guidance is clear that a criminal r...

My Lords, there is clearly concern about good character. I echo my noble friend’s query; the poin...

I did not mean to imply that the noble Baroness was saying that. I apologise for intervening on t...

Thank you. That is good to know.

I come back to the registration point that we are dealing ...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

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My Lords, this is the first time I have spoken on the Bill, as I was unable to speak at Second Re...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 13 in my name. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Alton of Liverpo...

My Lords, I will speak on Amendment 13 on behalf of my noble friend the right reverend Prelate th...

My Lords, it is great pleasure to be one of the terriers of the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, and ...

My Lords, I briefly pay tribute to my noble friend Lady Lister of Burtersett for her campaigning ...

My Lords, there is obviously strong feeling on this issue across the House. I congratulate the no...

I thank the noble Lord for his support of the principle, but is he suggesting that the Home Offic...

I appreciate that perhaps “manipulate” was the wrong word. I simply meant that events and costs c...

Forgive me, but is the noble Lord agreeing with me that, in relation to citizenship rights that t...

I am sorry, but I did not quite follow the noble Baroness’s point.

Perhaps I can clarify. We all agree that we should know what the figure is. We are also seeking c...

My Lords, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Horam, that there is no suggestion of putting a figure in...

You may not have a number, but costs can change from year to year; that is the point.

Absolutely, and I understand that that might be the case, but that is not the essence of either o...

I take this opportunity to clarify what is says: it says that no person may be charged a fee that...

I am very grateful for that important clarification. The cost price is the maximum that should be...

My Lords, I express our support for the amendments in this group. The amendments in the name of t...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Lister of Burtersett, the right reverend Prel...

Does the Minister accept that there is a difference between leave to remain and citizenship? We a...

Of course I accept the distinction. There is no arguing about that at all.

The noble Barone...

I apologise to the noble Lord. On the previous point about regulations for fees, the amendment of...

If we were to remove or amend fees during the passage of this Bill—I have said this before—it wou...

Will the Minister clarify what he just said? The existing legal framework has itself been undermi...

My Lords, that it is a lot of money is not in dispute. I am coming to the part that deals with th...

The noble Lord acknowledges that leave to remain is not the same as citizenship. When we last dis...

I assure the noble Baroness that I am not going to try it again today.

Proposed new subsect...

I am very sorry to interrupt yet again, but I pointed out that the appeal that has gone to the Su...

I was just coming to that.

The Government are currently carrying out a Section 55 assessmen...

Who is carrying out this review?

I cannot answer that, I am sorry. I will write on that.

I promise not to intervene again, but before the noble Lord leaves this point, is he not inviting...

With the greatest respect to the noble Lord, they are all part of the same debate. As I said, I c...

When the court has said that this is illegal, why do the Government not accept what the court has...

Again, with respect to the noble Lord, we are awaiting the further judgment.

I am sorry, but the lawyers behind this are very clear that these are completely separate legal p...

As I said, I do not have the answer to why it has taken a year, but I will write to the noble Bar...

My Lords, first, we do not address each other as “you”. I know that the Minister is new to the Ho...

The noble Lord said something about how the system relies on these fees. Could he clarify what he...

I apologise for my inadvertent use of the word “you”. I feel suitably admonished. My apologies. T...

I am sorry, but that is irrelevant, because this is not about immigration. It is about the right ...

My Lords, I thank everybody who contributed to this debate. I thank my noble friend for his court...

My Lords, I probably should have consulted my absolutely authentic book of words, but I believe i...