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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I apologise to the House for not being able to take part on this Bill at an earlier stage. The second amendment in this group, Amendment 57, in the name of the noble…03 Nov 2025HANSARDExtradition Act 2003 (Amendment to Designations) Order 2025At end insert “but that this House regrets that the Order makes changes to the extradition arrangements with Hong Kong at a time when a fair trial can no longer be guaranteed in…30 Oct 2025HANSARDExtradition Act 2003 (Amendment to Designations) Order 2025My Lords, I thank the Minister for meeting me to discuss this statutory instrument and my concerns, which are outlined in my amendment to the Motion before your Lordships’ House.…30 Oct 2025HANSARDExtradition Act 2003 (Amendment to Designations) Order 2025My Lords, I am very grateful to all the speakers. I thank the Minister for repeating the strong, hard processes that he believes are in place to protect Hong Kongers. I am also…30 Oct 2025HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy Lords, I thank the Minister for bringing the update as promised to Parliament earlier in the year—it is refreshing and a sign of how seriously this Government are taking…04 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to the noble Lord for his intervention. I have argued before to him, and I say it again, that there is a very straightforward answer. You have smaller group…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe problem is that Amendment 114 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, says there is no appeal—full stop, end. None. Therefore, that young person, who probably has…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, it is an honour to follow the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, who eloquently set out some of the history of the most recent slew of immigration Acts. I…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to the noble and learned Baroness and say again to the Minister, who will probably curse me for it, that there is no data and we need that data to understand…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 203E tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and declare my interests as vice-president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillAn Afghan soldier who served alongside our troops, to whom we have a duty, has no safe route to the UK now. Is the noble Lord suggesting that we should not support an asylum…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIt is an honour to follow the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and his detailed introduction to Amendment 120. I will start there and then very briefly go back to Amendment 110. I will not…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillTo add to that, that is a country in which our Foreign Secretary has sanctioned a number of individual Ministers. Is there any correlation between what the Foreign Office does and…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIs there a plan to publish this in annual form at some point in the future? We need that data.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to both noble Lords, Lord Murray and Lord Jackson, for thinking that they absolutely know where I am coming from, and I hope that the noble Lord, Lord…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful for the noble Lord’s intervention. One of the problems is that social workers are using exactly those techniques—perhaps not in full, but they are. What is…03 Sept 2025HANSARD“Hillsborough Law”My Lords, we will shortly be hearing a Statement, yet again, on the infected blood compensation scheme. Last week, we heard about the continuing problems with the Post Office…24 Jul 2025HANSARDInfected Blood Inquiry: Additional ReportMy Lords, for the second time in a fortnight, your Lordships’ House is debating a report from a judge telling the Government, in no uncertain terms, that the compensation schemes…24 Jul 2025HANSARDUniversal Credit BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. It is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Lister of Burtersett. I thank the many…22 Jul 2025HANSARDPost Office Horizon Inquiry: Volume 1My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe of Epsom, has spoken about the Green Paper, but I understood that we were responding only to the Post Office Horizon inquiry’s first report.…17 Jul 2025