Nationality and Borders Bill

My Lords, I rise to move my Amendment 33 and thank my noble friend Lord Green of Deddington for h...

This is a thoroughly nasty amendment. That is all I have to say about it.

My Lords, I will not be quite as brief as that, but I will try to be brief.

I rise to suppo...

I rise briefly to support this amendment. I had an opportunity years ago, when we were part of th...

My Lords, I invite the noble Baroness who moved this amendment and her supporter to consider the ...

My Lords, I have been following this Bill since its inception. I have not spoken up to this point...

My Lords, with great respect, is the noble Lord actually referring to the specific amendment unde...

I am endeavouring to do so but I shall not stand here for very long.

The ancient Spartans w...

My Lords—

Order.

If I may—

No. My Lords, this is Report. First, we are allowed to speak only once during a debate. Secondly,...

My Lords, under Clause 18, where an asylum seeker provides late evidence, this should damage thei...

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Neville-Rolfe for raising the issue and of course...

My Lords, I thank those who have spoken in this brief debate. The very real problems of refugees,...

Moved by

Baroness Coussins

34: Clause 25, page 30, line 25, at end insert—

“(2A...

My Lords, Amendment 34 is in my name, and I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, for her suppor...

My Lords, I shall speak briefly in support of the amendment, which I hope the Minister will be ab...

My Lords, we support the amendment as far as it goes, particularly the emphasis on those subjecte...

My Lords, I do not want to add much to what the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, and my noble frien...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Coussins, for her engagement with me, as the House wil...

Just before the noble Lord sits down, can he say whether there will be any consultation on the gu...

My Lords, I do not have the detail at my fingertips, but I can certainly undertake to write to th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply and all other noble Lords for their support on this ...

Moved by

Baroness Stroud

35: Clause 28, page 33, line 20, leave out paragraph (a)

My Lords, in the absence of my noble friend Lord Kirkhope due to Covid, I will be moving Amendmen...

My Lords, in rising to support Amendment 35 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope, to whic...

My Lords, I support Amendment 35. In Committee, I and a number of other noble Lords asked various...

My Lords, I spoke on this subject in Committee, so I will not make any more than a few brief rema...

My Lords, I will speak rather briefly; it seems to me that brevity has a very wide definition. Le...

My Lords, I think the noble Lord, Lord Horam, makes the mistake of thinking that this House trust...

My Lords, I entirely agree with and support what has been said by the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud...

My Lords, I want to briefly restate what I said in Committee. Not only is the Home Office seeking...

Amendments 35 and 37 would remove the subsections of Clause 28 and Schedule 3 which allow for off...

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

I say to the Minister that 3 pm today is far too late for this debate, and we have not received i...

I do not deny that 3 pm is too late, but that was my understanding. I will chase it, if indeed it...

My Lords, it may assist my noble friend to know that I have received the letter.

I am so pleased that my noble friend has been able to confirm that to me. I was just trying to be...

Before the Minister sits down, the letter that she kindly sent us today sets out at greater lengt...

On a point of clarification, the Minister said that the Minister in the other place had given an ...

I thought that I had made it clear that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children would not be offsho...

Can we be absolutely clear: the Minister is not saying that children could not be offshored if th...

I have gone as far as I am willing to go by confirming that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children...

I have been trying to read the letter on my phone, but it did not arrive until after 4 pm and the...

My Lords, it would depend on the circumstances of the case.

My Lords, it is clear that a number of very serious outstanding questions about this policy need ...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Durham

40: Clause 31, page 34, line 45, leave out “first”...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 40 to 45 in place of my friend, the right reverend Prelate ...

My Lords, I am rationing my interventions on Report to facilitate the early and many necessary Di...

My Lords, although I support all these amendments, I will speak only to Amendment 45, to which I ...

My Lords, I shall be brief and summarise the position I took in Committee. I support all the amen...

I have two amendments in this group, but they are quite distinct from what has been debated so fa...

This is another of those occasions when saying “From these Benches, we support” and not much more...

My Lords, I spoke at some length on the legal aspects of this group of clauses in Committee and, ...

My Lords, I will be very brief. I wish to say that we agree with the amendments in this group, wh...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who propose these amendments: the right reverend Prelate t...

I am afraid that I have been caught rather short on procedure, so I hope the House will indulge m...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble and learned Lord, but I think my noble friend is able to answer...

I have one more point of clarification. Could the Minister explain what the position will be for ...

I was coming to each of those points in my speech. I am not going to do so just yet, because I wa...

Will the noble Lord give way?

I am not sure that one generally takes questions on Report. I am newer than the noble Baroness, a...

My noble friend is correct on that. Noble Lords are guided not to speak after the Minister.

I want to respond to the concern expressed in Committee about the impact the clause would have on...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very full and considered response and all noble Lords for ...

Moved by

Baroness Ludford

47: After Clause 37, insert the following new Clause—