Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, your Lordships will be delighted to know that I will be extremely brief in moving Amend...

My Lords, I do not want to take the time of the House other than to say, with thanks for the lett...

My Lords, I am glad that the noble Lord, Lord Russell of Liverpool, has reached agreement with th...

My Lords, I will not say anything on the amendment addressed by the noble Lord, Lord Russell of L...

I thank noble Lords who have taken part in this debate.

I turn first to Amendment 2. As has...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his response. I will not deal directly with Amendment 21, whos...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

3: Clause 8, page 11, line 19, at end insert—<...

My Lords, I will aim to speak to all 11 amendments in my name, given that they touch on the same ...

My Lords, I very much thank the Minister, who has taken a very welcome personal interest in this ...

My Lords, we support much of what the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, has just said and some of the...

I thank both noble Lords for the points they have just made. I did refer to guidance in the point...

I do thank the Minister for that reply. I am not absolutely certain. It may just be that I did no...

I cannot make an absolutist comment, but I was trying to explain to the noble Baroness that anyon...

I thank the Minister for that further clarification. I think I have got as far as I am going to g...

Order!

My Lords, I think I should put the Question.

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

4: Clause 8, page 11, line 22, at end insert—<...

Moved by

Baroness Williams of Trafford

5: Schedule 1, page 86, line 6, leave out from...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

14: After Schedule 1, insert the following new Sche...

My Lords, the circumstances in which British citizenship may be removed were keenly debated in Co...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the Minister for her support in drafting these amendments, and I ...

My Lords, powers to deprive British citizens of their citizenship have historically been very tig...

My Lords, the amendments tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, add hugely important safeguards...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, and I agree with wha...

My Lords—oh, sorry.

Thank you. My Lords, I am grateful for the suggestion that the House might like to hear from the ...

My Lords, I apologise to the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Chelmsford for my lack of contr...

The noble Lord has displayed a very touching faith in the Home Office, which I do not think refle...

I am not aware of the details of that case, but I would say to the noble Baroness that the archit...

My Lords, I start by congratulating the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, on the detailed mea...

My Lords, I shared the concerns expressed by my noble friend Lady D’Souza about Clause 9 as it wa...

My Lords, I had the honour, with the then Leader of the House, to present to this House the 1981 ...

My Lords, I spoke in Committee and, obviously, after two and a half hours then and 50 minutes now...

My Lords, I speak in support of the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, to leave Cla...

I was not intending to intervene, but may I ask my noble friend the Minister whether there is any...

My Lords, I support the amendments from the noble Lord, Lord Anderson. I think that the way this ...

My Lords, although at first glance it would seem reasonable for the Home Office not to have to gi...

I think I am right in saying that until the noble Lord, Lord Paddick, spoke, all those speakers w...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, especially the noble Lord, Lord...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who spoke in this debate on a subject that I suspect none of us ...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

15: Clause 9, page 11, line 31, leave out “it appea...

Moved by

Baroness D’Souza

20: Clause 9, leave out Clause 9

My Lords, having listened with great care to a number of Lords speak about Clause 9, I think it i...

Moved by

Lord Judge

24: Before Clause 11, insert the following new Clause—

“Com...

My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, has asked me to open the batting on this amendmen...

My Lords, those who heard the Minister outline the position of the Government earlier today with ...

Not surprisingly, there is nothing I could add to what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Judge, ha...

My Lords, from these Benches, I told the noble and learned Lord that we will be supporting him. H...

My Lords, I signed this amendment for all the reasons that were given by the noble and learned Lo...

The Greens support the amendment too.

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, the noble and learned Lord, Lord...

Before the noble Lord sits down, do I understand that it is the Minister’s intention that, if thi...

In so far as the court has been told by Parliament that it can do that in the 1993 Act when it co...

My Lords, faced with the problems to which Part 2 gives rise, we end up, on the basis of the Mini...

Moved by

Baroness McIntosh of Pickering

25: Clause 11, page 13, line 33, leave out “a...

My Lords, when I tabled these amendments, I had sought to seek a greater reassurance from my nobl...

My Lords, I welcome the new clause proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and the nobl...

My Lords, we had a long debate on this subject in Committee, so I shall be brief. We ought to rem...

My Lords, if the names had not been filled on Amendment 28 then I would have added my name to it....

My Lords, I very much agree with the right reverend Prelate, and I am totally in support of the n...

I was so annoyed by what the noble Lord, Lord Horam, was saying, because part of it was absolute ...

My Lords, may I just ask my noble friend a question, based on listening to this debate and lookin...

My Lords, I entirely endorse and support what the noble Lord, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, has said. ...

My Lords, I was not intending to speak in this debate but, rather like the noble Baroness, Lady J...

My Lords, I will just say a word in support of what the noble Lord, Lord Horam, said, about publi...

My Lords, I would not want that to be quite the last word. The speech made by my noble friend Lor...

My Lords, if those seeking asylum in the UK are genuine seekers of sanctuary from war and persecu...

Before the noble Lord sits down—

With the greatest respect to the noble Lord, under the rules of Report stage, one is allowed to s...

My Lords, as has been said, Clause 11 is about differential treatment of recognised refugees. The...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke to these amendments. At the outset, I will dispel one...

My Lords, obviously I am disappointed that my Amendments 25, 26 and 27 have not found favour with...

Moved by

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard

28: Leave out Clause 11

My Lords, there are two ways in which to break a treaty, and I think that, looking back on it, I ...