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HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillIt is an absolute pleasure to follow my hon. Friend, and neighbour, the Member for Glasgow East (David Linden). I have said repeatedly how disgusted I am with this Bill in its…08 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI will take your advice on that, Madam Deputy Speaker, although I am little unsure whether we will get answers, because we have not any other time we have been asking for them.…08 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI support any attempts to help people who are victims of modern slavery, of course I do. Some good measures have been taken—of course they have—but it depresses me that this…08 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI am coming to the end, Madam Deputy Speaker, but I pay tribute to Mr Iqbal, my hon. Friend’s constituent, because that is what we want. We want public pressure, and in Committee…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillEven though the Scottish National party has fundamental disagreements with most of this horrific Bill, that is not the case for part 1, where we are in agreement with much of it.…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillWill my hon. Friend take an intervention?07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI have been told to be very brief, Madam Deputy Speaker. Is my hon. Friend aware of Dr Nick Martin, a medical doctor who had been in the British Navy for a number of years and…07 Dec 2021HANSARD Nationality and Borders BillI thank the right hon. Member for everything that he is doing on this. He will be aware of Madeline Gleeson, the Australian lawyer, academic and author of the book “Offshore”, who…07 Dec 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 30, in clause 47, page 54, line 34, at end insert— “(7) Notwithstanding the provisions above, this Act shall not come into force until the Lord Chancellor…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)In the light of what the Minister has said about the potential breach of the ministerial code, and knowing how seriously almost everyone takes that, I hope that what he tells me…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I beg to move amendment 31, in clause 47, page 54, line 34, at end insert— “(7) Notwithstanding the provisions above, nothing in this Act relating to Scotland shall come into…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am not sure what I am supposed to say, but I do not wish to withdraw the amendment. Question put, That the amendment be made. Question negatived. Question proposed, That the…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I will be brief. Basically, I agree with the hon. Member for Hammersmith and share the concerns about this being the second ouster clause in the Bill. I feel it is a bit early to…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Encouraged by the Minister, I have decided that I will say a few words, even if none of them are original. Most of what I have to say is in agreement with the hon. Member for…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)I am not sure whether the right hon. Gentleman’s intervention was aimed at me or the Minister. If he was aiming it at me, all I will say is that it would not be the first, second,…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Eleventh sitting)Further to that point of order, Mr Rosindell. I want to reiterate what everybody else has said and thank everybody involved. I wish the hon. Member for Stockton North well and I…23 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I will finish this story. Before the hearing in the upper tribunal, the Home Office conceded the appeal and accepted that the appellant was a refugee. If Cart had not been an…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I think the hon. Member is trying to trivialise what we are talking about and I am not going to entertain it any longer. To my mind, the justice system should not accept that…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I am very pleased to hear that the right hon. Member has given up. Feel free to intervene again. [ Interruption. ] I will say that, from a sedentary position, he says that there…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)indicated dissent .09 Nov 2021