Rwanda Treaty
Wednesday, 6 December 2023
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
My Lords, the Government of Rwanda did not ask for money to sign the treaty, nor did we offer any...
My Lords, yesterday, my noble friend Lord Liddle asked what is the present capacity of Rwanda to ...
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My Lords, the noble Lord is quite right: I was unable to answer that question yesterday, for whic...
My Lords, the International Agreements Committee will be scrutinising the new treaty. Will the Mi...
My Lords, the Government have already committed to appropriate scrutiny of the treaty. I will tak...
My Lords, there has been a great deal of focus on the cost of the partnership. Can the Minister p...
My noble friend makes a good point. Those focusing solely on the costs of the partnership are som...
My Lords, will the monitoring committee, as outlined in the economic development partnership and ...
The treaty enhances the role of the independent monitoring committee. It will ensure that obligat...
Will the Minister acknowledge and confirm that Home Office officials insisted on a letter of dire...
On the noble Baroness’s second point, the Government are devoting considerable resources to tackl...
My Lords, we all completely condemn these terrible criminals, but how many have been apprehended?...
My Lords, I do not know the answer to that. Part of the reason that I do not know the answer is t...
My Lords, on costs and criminal gangs, may I ask for clarity following my question yesterday and ...
I will have to write to the noble Viscount about extradition requests. I do not know the answer.<...
My Lords, the Minister said the funding of this ill-considered and, I think we will find, ill-fat...
The money is actually going to the ETIF, which is responsible for the economic growth and develop...
My Lords, can I just ask about the deterrent aspect of this issue? By my calculations, more than ...
In answer to the noble Baroness’s first question, I say that the deterrent effect is already work...
My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister will reflect on what he has just said. The Prime Minister...
My Lords, in answer to the first part of the question, of course the Albanian returns agreement i...
My Lords, if I can just come back again on the issue of money, I have a figure in front of me of ...
What is a great worry to the Government is that the costs of the migration system, as I mentioned...
My Lords, my noble friend Lady Taylor asked the Minister a simple question: have Ministers been r...
The answer is that I do not know. I will have to write to the noble Lord.
My Lords, for those who are a bit slow with their arithmetic, £8 million a day is £3 billion a ye...
That is an interesting conclusion to draw. The simple fact is that we are also clearing the backl...
My Lords, how many British Government officials will be sent to Rwanda to process these people, a...
My Lords, the point of the scheme is that if they are granted asylum then they stay in Rwanda. As...