Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

My Lords, I begin by saying how much I regret the death of my noble friend Lord Cormack. He was a...

My Lords, I will speak to my Amendments 10 and 43 in this group. I remain concerned about the pot...

My Lords, I shall speak in favour of Amendments 1, 3 and 5 tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Cha...

My Lords, we support all the amendments in this group. It is absolutely critical that domestic an...

My Lords, I begin by associating myself with the remarks of my noble friend Lord Hailsham about t...

My Lords, that is a very interesting speech but what we are being asked to do here is to vote on ...

My Lords, I shall be extremely brief. Some important points have been made, but I want to focus o...

My Lords, I begin by paying tribute to my old friend Lord Cormack, whom I knew for 60 years. I fi...

My Lords, I will be brief, but I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the noble Lor...

My Lords, I have listened to and read the debates so far with great respect. They have been domin...

I cannot claim to remember this clearly, but did anybody challenge with evidence the earlier case...

I cannot say what today’s Supreme Court would do, but the supreme courts of our country in those ...

This is a different situation. Here we have the expression of opinion by the Supreme Court being ...

My Lords, I do not think it is relevant to cite France. The fact is that this country has a great...

I am not sure what the noble Baroness’s question to me is, but, as a great Francophile, I am sorr...

As a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I was in Rwanda last Thursday. More particula...

If that is so, why or how is it that a number of refugees from Rwanda have been given asylum prot...

As the noble Lord will be well aware, the treaty is directly reflective of all the Supreme Court’...

My Lords, at this stage of the debate on this group, we are looking at two distinct things. One i...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow the most reverend Primate. I begin by saying how much I agr...

My Lords, I too was in Rwanda last week, and the noble Lord, Lord Murray, seems to have left out ...

My Lords, I have two brief points. First, on Patrick Cormack, yes, he did speak often and, yes, t...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to wind up this group of amendments for His Majesty’s Opposition. We h...

My Lords, on behalf of the Government Front Bench, I will first speak about noble Lords who have ...

My Lords, my noble friend asserts that the Government are complying with the rule of law and resp...

My Lords, the point of the Bill is to move the matter into the diplomatic and political sphere. T...

My point on the question of costs was not so much the £0.5 billion, but that the chair of the Hom...

If the noble Lord will permit, I will defer answering that question until later.

So it is i...

My Lords, I did not succeed in my urging of brevity, but never mind. I am grateful to all noble L...

Moved by

Lord Coaker

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 5, at end insert “while maintaining fu...

My Lords, I wish to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 12, leave out “is a safe co...

My Lords, there are four amendments in this group, all of which are in my name and to which the n...

My Lords, I add my tribute to those already paid to Lord Cormack. My particular knowledge of him ...

My Lords, I follow the noble Lord with much respect for his contributions to your Lordships’ Hous...

My Lords, I rise because of the speech of the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson. He suggested that those o...

My Lords, I am standing to tell the truth. As a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I ...

The noble Baroness referred to the LGBT situation in Rwanda. Can she indicate to the House which ...

We met the Rwanda Women’s Network, which was very interesting. We also met the Hope and Care Orga...

I thank the noble Baroness for that and will not detain the House any longer, but it is important...

I am not LGBT, so I have no idea, but from the evidence we heard it seems to be a little frowned ...

Again, I shall not detain the House, but I shall refer to this situation and the expression of on...

Briefly, I shall add a few comments to the remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Deben. In his rem...

My Lords, I start by saying to the noble Lord, Lord Deben, that I have come to the same conclusio...

My Lords, I do urge noble Lords to use some common sense. It is inconceivable, if this Bill is en...

My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister would care to comment on whether he agrees with the analy...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions. The partnership between the UK and Rwa...

I accept everything the Minister says, but it is all about what will happen in future. He is aski...

My Lords, I have been extraordinarily clear on this subject. As I said, the Bill provisions come ...

My noble friend says that it will confuse it; it is actually perfectly straightforward. If everyt...

I say to my noble friend that I am about to come on to the workings of the monitoring committee i...

I apologise for interrupting the Minister. Could he confirm to the House that the Minister, which...

I think I have already answered that. The Bill provisions come into force when the treaty enters ...

Sorry for interrupting again, but that is not quite an answer to my question. Could the Minister ...

My Lords, I disagree. I am afraid that is an answer to this particular question. I think it is. T...

I am most grateful to the Minister, who has given us a great deal of new information about the mo...

I hear what the noble Lord says, but I have answered this in considerable detail now.

The more detail the Minister gives about the virtues of the monitoring committee, the stronger hi...

I am afraid I disagree again.

Oh!

My Lords, as set out in the monitoring plan, the monitoring committee will ensure that there is a...

Before the Minister sits down, I return to the question I asked him earlier: will he now tell the...

My Lords, as has already been discussed, the lower house of the Rwandan Parliament passed its tre...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate. I do not want ...

I must advise the House that, if Amendment 4 is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 5, due to pre-...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

7: Clause 1, page 2, line 31, at the end insert—

My Lords, I wish to test the opinion of the House on this amendment.

My Lords, before I call the next amendments, I will explain the order of pre-emption, because it ...

I remind noble Lords that, if Amendment 9 is agreed to, I will be unable to call Amendments 10 an...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

9: Clause 2, page 2, line 34, at end insert “unless...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 9 and address Amendment 12 in my name and those of my noble fr...

My Lords, I rise to support the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich. I am glad that this evening...

My Lords, it is a privilege to follow my noble friend Lord Blunkett. I apologise to your Lordship...

My Lords, I rise briefly to support what the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, has said, as well as, of ...

My Lords, as well as supporting the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, I rise to speak to Amendment 16, w...

My Lords, what needs to be said about the risk of torture and inhumane treatment has already been...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, for sponsoring Amendments 9 ...

My Lords, as a member of the JCHR delegation, I had the benefit of visiting the very hospital in ...

My Lords, I am pleased to follow the noble Lord, Lord Murray, and his trying to portray mental he...

My Lords, as I said earlier when talking to a group of amendments, I spent a great deal of time i...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 23 and 27, in my name and that of the noble Baroness, Lady ...

My Lords, I am concerned about Amendment 9 from the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, which on the face ...

Noble Lords would expect the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich to support the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, we very much support Amendments 9 and 12, which the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, has led ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. I will turn first to Amendm...

Can the Minister confirm that the arrangement described in Article 10(3) of the treaty has been d...

I am afraid I do not know the answer to that question. I will find out and come back to the noble...

I am sorry to interrupt. What investigations have the Government made of whether that support is ...

I was about to answer the noble Baroness’s questions, because safeguarding arrangements are set o...

I thank all noble Lords who have participated in this fast-paced debate, and for the generous and...

Speaking for myself, I would just say in answer to the noble Lord’s questions that the answer is ...

I am grateful. I should say in fairness to the Minister that I did have a letter about Northern I...

My Lords, I cannot call Amendments 10 and 11 due to pre-emption. I remind the House that Peers sh...

Moved by

Lord Anderson of Ipswich

12: Clause 2, page 2, line 41, leave out subsection...

My Lords, I would like to test the opinion of the House.

Moved by

Baroness Lawlor

17: Clause 2, page 3, line 13, leave out subsection (5) and ...

My Lords, I support the aims of the Bill and I hope that it—and they—will succeed, that it will n...

My Lords, I will also speak in favour of Amendment 17, tabled by my noble friend Lady Lawlor, to ...

My Lords, I will briefly support Amendment 17 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor. I w...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 18, and Amendment 20 which I share with the noble Viscount, ...

I ask the noble Baroness to be clear about what I proposed and to what I was referring. I was ref...

I am very grateful to the noble Baroness for her clarification. As I pointed out, and I think the...

May I clarify that my amendment is designed to promote the aims of the Bill to remove people who ...

My Lords, perhaps I might add a few words to this debate on the Human Rights Act. I point out tha...

My Lords, I wanted to make a couple of brief points in support of Amendments 20 and 21. In Commit...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 21 in my name and also link that with Amendments 20 and 18. I...

Is the logic of the noble Lord’s point therefore that the Government would be better to repeal th...

No, we simply keep the Human Rights Act, which does the job we are seeking here. Naturally, of co...

My Lords, I will speak quite briefly. The amendments in this group again demonstrate the threat t...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Ponsonby, has flung down the gauntlet and, on behalf of His Majest...

I think a closer reading of Amendment 18 will demonstrate that it is not ensuring that the Govern...

In her address today and I think at an earlier stage, the noble Baroness described the functionin...

I thank my noble friend the Minister; I am very grateful to him for his courteous and thoughtful ...

Moved by

Lord Etherton

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

My Lords, I will also speak to related amendments that I have tabled: Amendments 24, 26, 28 and 3...

My Lords, I have put my name to the four amendments tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Et...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. Before I ...

The characterisation of the mentality in Rwanda that the noble Lord asserts does not reflect that...

I thank the noble Lord for that considered intervention. I can speak only according to my direct ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 42 tabled by the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss. My ...

My Lords, my name would have been on the amendment of the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 44 in this group, which is in my name and supported by the noble a...

My Lords, having tried earlier in the day during Questions to be supportive of the Minister, let ...

My Lords, there is an irrefutable case, in my view. It is very odd when you think about it. We ha...

My Lords, I strongly support Amendment 44 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Browne of Ladyton, ...

My Lords, this group, similar to the third group, demonstrates the risk to individuals where thei...

My Lords, as we come to the end of today’s consideration of the Bill before us, I start with the ...

My Lords, these amendments go to the issue of whether it is safe to relocate a person to Rwanda f...

Can the Minister tell the House what legal provisions are on the statute book in Rwanda for the “...

No, I cannot. I will have to come back to the noble Lord.

Rwanda is a signatory to the 2011...

The Minister has just said something at the Dispatch Box that is not factually correct. He said t...

Is that correct? It sounds very moot to me, legally. I said that Rwanda must

“have regard t...

Will the Minister answer the question I asked in February when this review was announced: will an...

As I understand it, they will be deported to Rwanda.

In conclusion, the Government of Rwand...

In relation to modern slavery, is there any law in Rwanda that protects those suffering from mode...

I am unable to comment on Rwandan law, but, of course, the treaty takes care of this and I went i...

As far as I know, there is no legislation to that effect in Rwanda.

My Lords, will the review of ARAP decisions apply to the Afghan interpreters and translators and ...

When I was explaining the ARAP situation, I pointed out the difficulty of assessing and accessing...

The Minister will not be able to answer this, but I would appreciate it if he could write to me a...

I am advised by my noble and learned friend Lord Stewart of Dirleton that “must” and “shall” both...

I am very grateful to the Minister for that analysis of the speeches made and the Government’s re...