Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

The noble Lord heard me correctly. I remind the House of the convention that relates to law offic...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, will he tell us his Government’s reflections on the deba...

I am obliged to the noble Lord for that intervention. On whether I deal with it in this part of t...

My Lords, this is the third time in as many years that the Government have asked this House to co...

Moved by

Lord German

My Lords, I direct the House’s attention to my interests as laid out in the register.

The t...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord German, for giving way. Does he agree that the function of ...

The noble Lord is wrong. I think in 2011 he voted against the Health and Social Care Bill at Seco...

My Lords, in almost every tradition of global faith and humanism around the world, the dignity of...

My Lords, this Chamber has had to consider many complex and challenging Bills, as has already bee...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Baroness, for whom I have great respect, but telling a...

I greatly admire the noble Lord, Lord German, but I cannot support his amendment. I dislike the B...

My Lords, with Rwanda, rather like that venerated old Irishman, I would not have started from thi...

Oh!

If I have it wrong, I very much look forward to hearing the specifics of what the Opposition woul...

My Lords, to understand a nation and its people, you need a feel for the inner bundle of practice...

My Lords, it is easy to list the defects in the Rwanda proposal; it is expensive and cumbersome a...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Hannan, speaks with his usual eloquence. One of the problems from ...

My Lords, the movement of large numbers of people seeking asylum is in danger of overwhelming the...

My Lords, the Bill exhibits several characteristics of this Government. Exhibit A is their contem...

My Lords, there are so many impermissible aspects to this Bill that it is difficult to know where...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, who is among thos...

My Lords, the policy of offshoring asylum seekers for assessment and resettlement abroad will ind...

My Lords, I declare my interests as laid out in the register. I stand in agreement with the argum...

My Lords, last year I listened to quite a lot of the debate during the passage of the Illegal Mig...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Clarke, since he sets the foundat...

My Lords, the flow of migration, unless obstructed, is rather like the flow of water—it finds its...

My Lords, it is a privilege for this daughter of migrants to share your Lordships’ House, but tod...

My Lords, the international system for dealing with refugees is breaking. That is hardly a surpri...

My Lords, I will support the Bill tonight, not because my Whips are suggesting I should do it but...

My Lords, I begin by urging noble Lords interested in the circumstances in Rwanda to pay close at...

My Lords, along with many other noble Lords, I am, frankly, distressed and shocked to see this pr...

My Lords, I do not want to add to what has been said about the content of the Bill but want to ma...

My Lords, I share many concerns about the Bill that have been expressed by many other noble Lords...

My Lords, in the absence of an immediate returns agreement with France, for which there seems lit...

My Lords, although it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Murray, I would urge him to st...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carlile, whom I worked with on the Ill...

My Lords, I am honoured, as ever, to follow the noble Lord, Lord Cashman, who has made a very pas...

My Lords, many moons ago I was a staff writer on the Financial Times and occasionally involved in...

My Lords, I think we can all agree that the Bill is contentious. I think we can also agree about ...

My Lords, this time last week, I was in Strasbourg for meetings of the Parliamentary Assembly of ...

My Lords, we do need to stop the abhorrent practices of the criminal gangs and save people dying ...

My Lords, in the short time available, I shall concentrate on my conclusions. The first point tha...

My Lords, as the 41st speaker, I will inevitably repeat or underline others’ points, but I will b...

My Lords, I will leave the important legal aspects of the Bill to the many outstanding lawyers wh...

My Lords, it is right that we approach this debate with seriousness. Once more, the responsibilit...

My Lords, when researchers and historians come to assess the work of the 2019-24 Parliament, I su...

My Lords, I am in favour of the amendment and opposed to this disgraceful and odious Bill. Other ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Brixton, for that speech. He did not pull any pu...

My Lords, I do not like the Bill, but, as a number of noble Lords have said, I struggle with the ...

My Lords, were it not for the thousands of human tragedies and broken lives that are part of the ...

My Lords, listening to the speeches this evening, I have heard a number of noble Lords state thei...

My Lords, finally we have it here. We have been waiting quite a long time for this Bill, and it i...

My Lords, I am glad to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Jones of Moulsecoomb, and thank my noble a...

My Lords, I start by emphasising that the Bill is unlawful. It contravenes international law, it ...

My Lords, we have had many excellent speeches today and I will, therefore, speak briefly. I am su...

My Lords, we have heard a lot of anger and outrage this afternoon, and a lot of agonising about n...

My Lords, as I have listened to the debate today, I have been very much aware that noble Lords ar...

My Lords, I refer to the register of interests for support from RAMP. I start by simply noting ra...

My Lords, I wish to make three points, which have already been made several times in the context ...

My Lords, I refer noble Lords to my interests in the register. I am an immigrant, the daughter of...

My Lords, there are not many advantages to speaking so late in the debate, but one is that you ca...

My Lords, the Government have stuck with the Rwanda scheme despite the Rule 39 decision in Strasb...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. Is there not a difference here—a difference between disagr...

I am grateful to the noble Lord; I am coming on to that point. There were certain unusual aspects...

My Lords, it is a great honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Faulks. My noble friend Lady Verma ...

My Lords, I begin with an anecdote that has some tangential connection with what the noble Barone...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Wilson of Dinton, with his vast e...

My Lords, my noble friends Lord German and Lord Thomas told us that we have a Bill in front of us...

My Lords, it is a privilege to speak after the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, and join the debate that ...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken today and shared their thoughts on thi...

Perhaps the Minister can answer the simple question which I put early in this debate. If that is ...

My Lords, I will come back to that.

On 20 October 2023, the Home Office launched the consul...

My Lords, where, under Clause 4, an individual is seeking the court’s ruling on whether their ind...

My Lords, quoting from the Bill in answer to the noble Baroness, it is

“the person in quest...

My Lords, I asked what the grounds were for people from Rwanda being given asylum here. What was ...

My Lords, each individual case is different. I do not know the particular circumstances.

It...

How will they know? The Illegal Migration Act prevents someone who may well have been trafficked ...

My Lords, as I have just said, the treaty makes specific provision that Rwanda will have regard t...

I am grateful, but that is prohibited in the Illegal Migration Act.

My Lords, I will have to write to the noble Lord on that very specific point.

These are als...

I am sure the Minister wants to be accurate. Is it not the case that he should recognise that hom...

My Lords, I am afraid I am not familiar with that part. However, I have just read out the relevan...

Has the noble Lord actually read the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission’s advice on this ma...

As I have just set out to the noble Baroness, the Government takes a different view to those opin...

My Lords, I have just read a report of the debate from a senior broadcast journalist. He says tha...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

My Lords, the United Kingdom is a three-legged stool. Each of the legs—the judiciary, the Governm...