Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, I thoroughly endorse what the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, has said, and I am very plea...

My Lords, I apologise for not being able to speak at Second Reading. I strongly support Amendment...

My Lords, as I did this morning, I express great sympathy for the point of view expressed so eloq...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baronesses, Lady Lister, Lady Ludford and Lady Bennett, and th...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Bennett of Manor Castle signed the amendment and has asked me to s...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a founder member and, like the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, ...

My Lords, I did not have the opportunity to speak at Second Reading and I apologise for that. I d...

My Lords, as we have heard from my noble friend Lady Ludford, the Chagos Islanders were evicted b...

I would like to express our support for this new clause. I wish to be clear about its objectives ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I hope that, at the end of my r...

In the light of the eloquent and compelling speeches made in this debate, does the Minister conce...

I do not think that anybody in this Committee would say that what happened to the Chagossians was...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has contributed to this debate. It is fair to say that there is un...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

14: Clause 7, page 9, line 36, at end insert—

“(1A) In...

My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 14, in my name and that of the name of the noble Lord, Lord Rus...

I would like in particular to add our support for Amendment 14 in the names of the noble Lord, Lo...

I thank noble Lords for tabling these amendments to Clause 7, which will allow the Home Secretary...

My Lords, I agree with the Minister that Clause 7 is positive and I agree with the noble Lord, Lo...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

25: Clause 9, page 11, leave out lines 33 to ...

My Lords, I will speak also to Amendment 26 in this group and I look forward very much to hearing...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 27 in my name. I declare at the outset that I was born both ...

My Lords, I shall speak to oppose the Question that Clause 9 stand part and to my Amendment 28, w...

My Lords, we are told that the provisions of Part 1 overall seek to remove historical anomalies a...

My Lords, I am grateful to those noble Lords who have already spoken. It is heartening to hear vo...

My Lords, I have been very pleasantly surprised to see the level of public anger that has been ex...

My Lords, reference has understandably been made to one of the Acts which came to fruition when I...

My Lords, first, I apologise for being unable to speak at Second Reading. I have put my name to A...

My Lords, I support the amendment in the name of my noble friend Lord Moylan and the intention of...

My Lords, I want to say just a few words because I have listened very carefully, looked at all th...

My Lords, it is important to situate Clause 9 within the breadth of our immigration law as it sta...

My Lords, we have benefited from the intervention of the noble Lord, Lord Macdonald of River Glav...

My Lords, I did not speak on Second Reading, but I am delighted to have been here today to have h...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Hunt narrowed the debate to the issues that are in the clause, but...

My Lords, I am not a lawyer either, but like my noble friend Lady Blower I have read the Bingham ...

My Lords, I am also not a lawyer, but we have Amendment 29 in this group and we join the noble Lo...

My Lords, I sense very well that the Committee would like to move on, so I will be much quicker t...

My Lords, I have listened to this debate with enormous care. I have conflicting feelings about it...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her letter to all Peers of 25 January. If I understood correct...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken on this late Thursday afternoon, and those who ...

My Lords, I think my noble friend has been misadvised in characterising Amendment 27 as imposing ...

It could encompass both, but in the context of what I am talking about, some serious organised cr...

Can I just a question that relates to that? A picture has been painted of a group of people darti...

Of course there are home-grown people trying to do harm to our British citizens, but this is one ...

As a follow-on from the noble Baroness’s question, I have a question that I asked in my initial i...

My Lords, what I think I have tried to explain today—and it will be obvious that are clearly diff...

My Lords, this debate has been very moving in parts and extremely thoughtful, and I thank everybo...

Moved by

Lord Dubs

30: Clause 10, page 13, line 11, after “birth” insert “without any...

My Lords, I again refer to my membership of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. We have produced...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Dubs and the proposal that Clause 10 should not stand pa...

My Lords, as a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I agree with the noble Baroness tha...

My Lords, I support the amendments and the proposal that Clause 10 should not stand part, and my ...

My Lords, I am trying to imagine how it could ever be in the best interests of a child born and r...

My Lords, Clause 10 talks about, to quote the Explanatory Notes,

“cases where parents have ...

My Lords, my name has been added to the proposal to oppose Clause 10 standing part of the Bill, w...

My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, for tabling Amendments 30 and 31 to Clau...

My Lords, can the Minister clarify something? She gave us some figures; I did not have a chance t...

I assume that it is the latter, but I will write to the noble Lord with the details of the figure...

I want to follow up, because the Minister has answered the question I was going to ask. She menti...

I shall write to noble Lords about this in more detail, because it is quite detailed, and explain...

My Lords, I have tried to follow the Minister’s reply, and I am bound to say that I too am a litt...