Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

As far as I understand it, that is the case.

On a point that we will debate further in rela...

Will the Minister say whether the reports from the monitoring committee to the joint committee wi...

I cannot say that at the moment, but, as I have said, they will be published on a regular basis.<...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for outlining the elements of the ETIF and the MEDP, but ...

I am happy to commit to providing as much detail as I can in the letter that the noble Lord reque...

My Lords, the noble and learned Lord, Lord Stewart of Dirleton, indicated in an earlier amendment...

Well, my Lords, I recollect the discussion last week between the noble and learned Lord and my no...

Do I take it, then, that the Government’s position reflects the speech made by the noble Lord, Lo...

No, but I think that the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, summed up the Government’s position rather wel...

Before the Minister sits down, I have a practical question. He says that this will apply retrospe...

I appreciate that the noble Lord asked me about this in the debate last week as well. I will not ...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who took part in this group of amendments. It has been an inter...

Moved by

Lord Etherton

38: Clause 4, page 4, line 12, after “question” insert “or, wh...

My Lords, in speaking to this amendment I will speak to Amendments 40, 43, 45 and 51, which I tab...

My Lords, I am in favour of the amendments in this group, including that in the name of my noble ...

My Lords, I support the two amendments just mentioned by my noble friend Lord Cashman. I remind t...

My Lords, I have added my name to these amendments. The noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, sp...

My Lords, we heard this debate opened with great clarity and legal exactitude by my noble and lea...

My Lords, it is a pleasure, as always, to follow the noble Lord, Lord Carlile. On this occasion, ...

My Lords, I strongly support the amendment of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, which he...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group and seek to tease out a couple of answers from t...

My Lords, this group is concerned with members of specific social groups. I welcome the points ma...

My Lords, as we have previously set out, the purpose of the Bill is to stop the boats and end the...

I am very grateful to the Minister for his reply and to those who have spoken. What the debate ha...

Moved by

Baroness Chakrabarti

39: Clause 4, page 4, line 12, leave out from “question...

My Lords, this group goes to the heart of domestic, constitutional, rule-of-law concerns about th...

My Lords, I shall explain why I am proud to support this vital group of amendments to Clause 4 pr...

My Lords, my noble friend the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of Canterbury regrets that he ...

My Lords, I very strongly support what has been said but want to draw attention to the statement,...

My Lords, I rise very briefly on that point to support the noble Baroness. We have heard in previ...

My Lords, I rise to support these amendments for a very fundamental reason. The separation of pow...

My Lords, I want to follow the remark made by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Hale, when she...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Whitaker, who reminded us of the ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to an interesting debate on this i...

I am grateful to the Minister for stating clearly that the Government of Rwanda have begun puttin...

My Lords, on the passing of the Bill, the Act will decree that Rwanda is safe. Just because work ...

The Minister just said that Rwanda is becoming safer, but in his earlier comments he said that it...

My Lords, what I said was that on the passing of the Bill, Rwanda is safe. What I say is that it ...

You said that the safeguards had to be in place.

I did not. I said that just because safeguards have not yet been fully put in place, it does not ...

If Rwanda is not safe now, but it will be safe, then the period between now and the point at whic...

I reiterate my previous answer: the fact that further work is being done does not mean that the s...

I have one final point for the Minister. If this legislation decrees on Royal Assent that Rwanda ...

My Lords, any work being done to improve a place is desirable of itself.

Does the Minister still stand by the assurance from the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom, that no...

My noble friend Lord Sharpe confirmed to me a moment ago that the monitoring committee is already...

My Lords, the monitoring committee consists of four people, two of whom are apparently in the pay...

My Lords, in the first instance, the monitoring committee consists of not four but eight people. ...

The Minister may be about to speak on this but I did ask a specific question as to the Government...

The noble Baroness indeed anticipated me as I was turning to that point. As she says, the noble L...

Will the Minister answer a very simple question? Did the United Kingdom vote for the High Commiss...

Whether or not we as a country voted for him to take his place does not exclude the possibility o...

I am encouraged by the noble and learned Lord’s statement that the monitoring committee is up and...

That is the information given to me, but I am happy to look into the matter to reassure the noble...

Is it that it has recruited a support team, or that it is up and running?

The point I am making is that I have been told the body is up and running. That does not touch on...

The Minister is being generous in giving way, but what he just said contradicts what he said prev...

The point I was making was in answer to the point raised earlier in the debate by noble Lords, wh...

But it is absolutely clear from the policy statement, and from answers that the Home Secretary ga...

I think the terms of Article 9 of the treaty are clear. The Act comes into force the day that the...

Will the Minister answer a couple of rather simple questions? Has he read the Rwandan legislation...

The answer to the former is that it does not fall to me to read the Rwandan legislation; but, giv...

The Advocate-General for Scotland may not be the right person to express a view in relation to Rw...

My Lords, I will look into that. Presumably, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wil...

Could the Minister confirm, for the benefit of all of us, that the Home Office team in charge of ...

My Lords, what I have said was that I have not seen the Home Office legislation. I have not been ...

My Lords, I would be keen to know what is the basis for the noble and learned Lord’s assertion th...

My Lords, it has been a matter that has been canvassed exhaustively already, but it flows from th...

Could the Minister tell us whether the draft Rwandan law exists?

My Lords, again, if the noble Lord is asserting that the relevant Rwandan legislation is a figmen...

If there is no risk of refoulement because of all those processes, all the legislation and all th...

If the noble Lord were to be threatened with refoulement, it could only happen to him once the Bi...

I am very concerned with what the Minister has literally just told us. The Minister has just said...

My Lords, the Government are working with the Government of Rwanda to implement new protections t...

I am grateful to the Minister, who has been very patient with so many concerned Members of the Co...

My Lords, the treaty guarantees that anyone relocated to Rwanda will be given safety and support ...

I do not think that the Minister has taken on board what the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, asked him. ...

My Lords, the point is that the treaty, while it has not been ratified, is a matter of agreement....

Further to the Minister’s answer to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, does the system—th...

My Lords, I am not fully clear that I follow the import of the question that the noble Lord poses...

Forgive me: I am just trying to understand the Minister’s position on the point raised by the nob...

The system has been agreed and will come into place along with the treaty.

Could the Minister then tell us what that system is? When will the House see that system? It woul...

My Lords, I will expand on the matter in the correspondence to which I referred the noble Lord.