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HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)The right hon. Member can quote scripture at me all he likes. If we are going to talk about scripture, then we are going to talk about Christianity, which is surely about…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)Is the right hon. Gentleman asking me to give way?09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Can I sit down and chat as well?09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I do not think I suggested that there were huge numbers of cases of people with disabilities. What I said was that there are huge numbers of people with disabilities and huge…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Strangely enough, no I cannot. Can the right hon. Gentleman tell us?09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)What I find offensive is the way in which asylum seekers are treated right now, and the much more awful way that they will be treated if the Nationality and Borders Bill goes…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I could not have put it better myself. I completely agree with that. I do want to go on to look at other people who will be affected. Let us imagine that the Members opposite are…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)That is an excellent intervention and I absolutely agree. Interestingly, my notes state that we are not just talking about immigration. I agree about the hostile environment; it…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for reminding me of that. I foolishly accepted the 97%, knowing it was not correct.09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillThere has been much gnashing of teeth in the past week over MPs who breach standards and their right to appeal—natural justice, I think they call it. Why, then, do the Government…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillWe have just spent a considerable amount of time arguing about that issue in Committee, so let me turn to another part of the Bill. The presumption in favour of prospective…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)If that is the case, and if the Minister is so concerned about the court backlog, does that mean that he will not support the Nationality and Borders Bill, which attempts to…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)rose —09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I thank the Minister for that second bite. I know he was not deliberately conflating serious sexual offenders with asylum seekers, but I really want to make that distinction. We…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)indicated dissent .09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)rose—09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)I have just served on the Nationality and Borders Bill Committee. I did not get a break between that and this Committee—in fact, last week the two clashed—so I know that what the…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)The hon. Member is talking about the sooner we can get rid of these people out of the country. One of the people I spoke about on Second Reading was a Venezuelan man who fled…09 Nov 2021HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts Bill (Fifth sitting)Absolutely. I would love to hear what the hon. Gentleman has to say.09 Nov 2021