Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill

Moved by

Lord Coaker

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to this debate in your Lordships’ House. He m...

My Lords, in overturning our Amendment 6, which reinstated domestic courts’ jurisdiction, the Min...

My Lords, we have some very difficult questions to answer here this afternoon, and there are many...

My Lords, the phrase “the elected House must prevail” is a meme around this place. We have certai...

My Lords, what a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Lipsey, with whom I agree. I felt that t...

My Lords, I am not a fan of the Bill but I think it is time for it to pass.

I want to respo...

My Lords, I rise to answer one question posed by the noble Lord, Lord Carlile. He asked your Lord...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but does his reference to the monist system and t...

No, that is simply not the case at all. What the noble Lord appears to suggest is that there is a...

My Lords, I will speak only once in this debate and very briefly, as usual. I should just mention...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate, as I am for th...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has contributed on this group of amendments. I will say just one p...

My Lords, before I call Motion B, it may assist the House if I say that Amendment 3B in the name ...

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

My Lords, we set out in earlier debates, and this was re-emphasised by Members in the other place...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall speak also to my Motion B2 and to Amendment 3C in ...

The noble and learned Lord quite rightly quoted the views of Sir Jeremy Wright, Sir Bob Neill and...

I am extremely grateful to the noble Lord for his point. I imagine that the monitoring committee ...

My Lords, I will update the House on a further development in relation to the amendment in the na...

My Lords, Rwanda is a safe country, Rwanda will always be a safe country. How can I say that? Bec...

My Lords, I wonder whether we are making rather heavy weather of this. Surely, the objective is t...

My Lords, I am puzzled by this amendment. For 18 years, between 2004 and 2022, we had on the stat...

Is it not the case that that legislation did not simply lack the controls advocated by the noble ...

My noble friend is absolutely right, as he always is.

My Lords, I declare my interest as set out in the register that I am supported by RAMP. I am grat...

My Lords, we are very pleased to say that should the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, wish to t...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the contributions of noble Lords to this debate. I am grateful i...

Before my noble friend sits down, he will have heard the noble and learned Lord, Lord Falconer, t...

Well, no. As I was not party to the comments of the Lord Chancellor, I think it would be very foo...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate, particularly the ...

Moved by

Lord Hope of Craighead

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

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

My Lords, my noble and learned friend has already spoken to Motion C, so I beg to move.

Moved by

Lord Sharpe of Epsom

My Lords, again, my noble and learned friend has already spoken to Motion D, so I beg to move.