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HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, justice and immigration offences should make a distinction between those seeking illegal entry and desperate people seeking asylum or who eventually receive it.…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillOn that specific point, it looks as though that is a defence. Therefore, the burden would be on the rescuer to demonstrate these things about the moment when the individual was in…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt is always me.08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillBefore the Minister sits down—to use the convention, although I am glad she is resting for a moment—she talked about this group being about uncapped routes and visas, but many, if…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am sorry, but this is not the first time this has happened. I have been here all through Committee with the Minister. This is the second time the Leader of the House has done…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, this is the safe-route group and I associate myself with so much of what I have heard already, although I signed the amendments in the names of my noble friend Lord Dubs…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am grateful to the Minister for giving way. In a previous group, the noble Baroness the Minister—I was very grateful to her—sought to make distinctions between immigration and…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillForgive me; I stand corrected by the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts—as always, certainly in matters of business. I was merely trying to suggest that we cannot…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am grateful to all noble Lords who contributed to this group. I believe there was a great deal of consensus in the Committee, but I am sure the Minister was grateful for the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDJudicial Review and Courts BillMy Lords, it is an absolute privilege to follow my learned friend, the noble Lord, Lord Pannick, with his unrivalled experience in this area. I have had the pleasure to work with…07 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI promise that this is my final intervention on the Minister, but I do not understand why we have to have the provision at all. He is saying that it is perfectly open-textured…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, it is an absolute pleasure to follow both my noble friend Lady Lister of Burtersett—who is hard working to the point perhaps of being a Stakhanovite—and also the noble…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt may be that, because it has been a long day, I have missed something, or it may be that I have jumped the gun and the Minister was about to come to this point, but I have not…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI have no doubt that that is sometimes the case, but my point is that you do not need Clause 25 to deal with that case, because the decision-makers listed here are well capable of…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt says that they have to have good reason.03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I shall speak against Clause 25 standing part. I agree with so much of what has already been said. This is a particularly tawdry little clause in an outrageous Bill,…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillBriefly, on the Minister’s previous point in response to the right reverend Prelate about refugees being able to fly here instead of making perilous crossings, will she make a…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am so sorry but would the noble Lord remove his mask for a moment so we could better hear his wisdom?03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI know that the noble Lord is concerned about asylum seekers who turn out not to be recognised. No doubt he is even more concerned about the smaller proportion of them who may be…03 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI am saying that, if we trust—as I am sure the Government do—immigration officers, the Secretary of State, the First-tier Tribunal, et cetera, to be intelligent, effective…03 Feb 2022