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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am sure the noble Lord is aware that there are particular statutory provisions on additional considerations in cases involving foreign criminals, and it is those that…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, the Minister, whom I thank, started his response by saying that the Bill is not the right mechanism for the amendments. I think he was applying that comment to the whole…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I will make the point, before the noble Baroness moves on, that that is exactly the point that many of us are making—you cannot generalise. I will just put it that way.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 203E, to which the noble Lord has just referred. I certainly do not seek to take issue with the noble Lord, Lord Browne. I appreciate that…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am sorry, because the noble Lord was obviously about to go through the list. Perhaps he could add France, because I have been wondering about our relationship with France if we…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I have Amendments 128 and 129. This issue was brought to our attention by the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association. I want to make it quite clear that this is not…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThey have been entitled to receive the transcript; the problem is that people are not told that they are entitled to have it, and I wonder whether the Minister can take that back.…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I have added my name to my noble friend’s amendment. I was not proposing to speak to it until recently. I may well have it wrong, but I would be grateful if the Minister…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThere was discussion about consent, because a child cannot consent. I do not know whether the noble Lord recalls it, but we talked about that fairly extensively.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIs the Minister saying that there is to be an exercise of averaging out the fees, so that we are talking about total cost and total fees, but they might not be absolutely exact…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, but perhaps I may raise a point which he has referred to but which has not been referred to in the debate, which is “part of a country”? Is…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumMy Lords, I apologise to the House for being a few seconds late; the unexpectedly early start took me by surprise. Does the Minister agree—I am sure he will at least agree with…02 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, with this group of amendments we return to issues relating to modern slavery and human trafficking, which we have debated on the basis of what I described, I think, as…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Davies, does not disappoint me because these were his Government’s provisions, so of course I would have expected him to speak in support of them. I…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, there is another fine detail which neither noble Lord has mentioned but which worried some of us very much—that, in offloading to Rwanda, we would be enabling a whole…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, it might help the noble Lord, Lord Harper, to know that, in the paragraph in the Data Protection Act that sets out an exemption to data sharing, the wide phrase, “for…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, Amendment 95 is about the use of information supplied by HMRC. I acknowledge that many—possibly most—people believe that if information is given to a government official…10 Jul 2025