Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, in moving Amendment 174, I will leave my noble friends Lord German and Lord Wallace to ...

My Lords, Amendment 181 seeks an exemption from the immigration health surcharge for internationa...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 183, which I hope the Government may be willing to accept bef...

My Lords, the noble Lord makes a very strong case, but I rise to strongly support Amendment 174, ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 183 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, which ...

My Lords, I am happy to join the noble Lords, Lord Green and Lord Wallace, and others who have br...

My Lords, it is a pleasure and privilege to make this trio of noble Lords—of naughty boys—into a ...

I support all three amendments in this group and particularly that of the noble Lord, Lord Wallac...

My Lord, I strongly support the basic thrust of Amendment 183 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord...

Amendment 174 would return rights to people in the UK who are on the overseas domestic workers vi...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I thought it might be helpful t...

The fact is that I do not think it is an unusual case; I asked Kalayaan for a recent case study a...

I am not going to look at it again but I will perhaps explore it further and see why what is happ...

Is the Minister aware that, in some countries, applicants choose those families that come to Lond...

Between what the noble Lord has just outlined and what the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, has just ...

Four years is quite a long time to produce a report. Why has it taken four years to date and why ...

My Lords, I will have to think of a new phrase: perhaps “shortly”.

Is it this year?

Yes, I hope that it will be this year.

I say to noble Lords that I share their concerns. I will also be writing to the Committee before ...

My Lords, I hope the Home Office has consulted the FCDO on this issue. The Minister will be aware...

My Lords, I acknowledge all the points that the noble Lord has made and agree that there is more ...

My Lords, my noble friends both made very powerful cases. I hope that my noble friend Lord Wallac...

Moved by

Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick

175: Clause 71, page 74, line 16, at end ins...

My Lords, the amendment is in my name and those of the noble Baroness, Lady Suttie, and my noble ...

My Lords, I will speak in favour of Amendment 175 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie of D...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie. I had not necessaril...

My Lords, I support the amendment moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Ritchie, and spoken to by oth...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Ritchie of Downpatrick and Lady Suttie, for raising ...

My Lords, I will very briefly give support from these Benches to all three of these amendments. T...

Perhaps I, too, should declare that I am both British and Irish since birth. I understand the dif...

I will add my voice of support to my noble friend Lady Ritchie. It is good to have the perspectiv...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords very much for participating in this short but powerful debate. I th...

I thank the Minister for giving way. Could he outline to the Committee how these ETAs will operat...

I thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. I am going to come on to a number of those poin...

Can I just make one point? Northern Ireland is the size of Yorkshire. What the Minister is really...

I thank the noble Viscount—sort of. There will be no hard border. As I said, there is not going t...

I say gently to the Minister that he has to be really careful with language on things such as con...

I completely understand the point that the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, is making. I promise him that...

I wanted to ask my noble friend about what happens when there is a technical malfunction, but I t...

I completely agree with my noble friend: obviously it is important to have well-established proto...

I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this debate from across the Committee. I say to t...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

175ZB: Clause 74, page 79, line 7, leave out subsection (3)<...

My Lords, the short point that my noble friend Lord Paddick wanted to make, as he generally does,...

This clause would extend the use of Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act to people who have been detai...

I thank both Members of the Committee for their remarks. Schedule 7 examinations have been instru...

My Lords, the Minister said there is a deliberate time limit to these powers. I may be reading th...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady McIntosh, has her name to the opposition to Clause 76 standing...

Perhaps while the noble Baroness looks at her handwriting, as a lefty, liberal lawyer, I say brie...

My Lords, I will very briefly say how much I support the noble Lord, Lord Oates; he made a very p...

I stress that these Benches as a whole support my noble friend Lord Oates’s amendment, as we cons...

I certainly do not want to detain the Committee, but, as has been said, we are in a situation whe...

I thank noble Lords who have spoken in this debate and express my admiration for the noble Lord, ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. Given the lateness of the hour, I shall not dela...

Moved by

Lord Judge

182: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“Com...

The noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, has had to leave and has left me to speak. I start by apolo...

I love surreal art, even if I do not always understand it. This amendment seems to be completely ...

My Lords, this has been a theme running through the Committee, so it is perhaps fitting that we s...

My Lords, as a fellow penitent, though in my case probably for taking too much interest and spend...

Whether the amendment is a warning, surreal or whatever, surely if the Government believe their a...

We certainly support the amendment. Throughout the passage of the Bill, the Government have repea...

My Lords, I thank the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, for speaking on behalf of the noble Bar...

I shall of course withdraw the amendment for today, reflecting with some sadness that there is no...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

184: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

“Co...

My Lords, I apologise for detaining the Committee, given the lateness of the hour. I am grateful ...

My Lords, I was pleased to add my name to this amendment. At the risk of frazzling the Government...

My Lords, most of the Bill has focused on those who are trying to arrive in this country and whos...

I will listen with interest to the Minister’s reply, on behalf of the Government, to this amendme...

My Lords, so many of the points made in the submission of the noble Lord, Lord Rosser, appear in ...

That is a very helpful answer. I understand the technical difficulties of accepting the amendment...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her intervention. I cannot promise that any such debate w...

I asked some very specific questions on the Section 55 review, partly because I thought that the ...

I am obliged to the noble Baroness, and I apologise for not raising the matter before I went to s...

My Lords, I think that, if the House divided now, we might win on this, but let us not pursue tha...

Moved by

Baroness Hamwee

187: After Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—