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HANSARDTerrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2019That the draft Order laid before the House on 22 July be approved.01 Oct 2019HANSARDTerrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2019I thank both noble Lords for their questions. To the best of my knowledge, who made the application for deproscription is not in the public domain. The law states that…01 Oct 2019HANSARDTerrorism Act 2000 (Proscribed Organisations) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2019My Lords, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group—LIFG—was established in the early 1990s and aimed to replace the Gaddafi regime with a hard-line Islamist theocracy. The group mounted…01 Oct 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensI pay tribute to the noble Baroness and the way she has worked on this issue. She raises an important point: as she knows, we require more evidence on this issue to understand the…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee of ParliamentI am saying—I will be corrected if I am wrong—that there may be occasions when it is not possible for that information to be provided. But, for the benefit of the noble Lord, Lord…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee of ParliamentAs I said to noble Lords, we endeavour to respond within 60 days. There will be certain occasions when responses cannot be given for reasons possibly of national security, but…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensI certainly acknowledge the noble Earl’s point and I shall refer his comments to my colleagues in health.09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensI think that that might be putting the cart before the horse in some ways; we have to understand, through the call for evidence, precisely what the issues are. I think intersex…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensIt is not a consultation so much as a call for evidence, which is a more informed process, engaging with various stakeholders with expertise in this area. The noble Lord will be…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensThe noble Lord raises an issue which stems, in many cases, from ignorance. People mix up intersex with transgender: they are entirely different. Intersex is neither a sexual…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensI do not know whether my noble friend knows this, but the LGBT survey we conducted had 108,000 responses—the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the world. Almost 2,000…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensThe noble Lord outlined the very point articulated by the noble Baroness, Lady Barker. Obviously, we would never want children to have to go through something they might later…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntersex CitizensMy Lords, in the 2018 LGBT Action Plan, the Government announced their intention to publish a call for evidence on the experience of people who have variations in sex…09 Sept 2019HANSARDIntelligence and Security Committee of ParliamentI thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, particularly my noble friend Lord Lothian for securing it. He and many noble Lords made the point that the committee…09 Sept 2019HANSARDBritish Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate, which has lasted longer than it did in the other place. That does not surprise me, because your Lordships are so…23 Jul 2019HANSARDImmigration: ChildrenThe point I made did not uphold the noble Lord’s point that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity but that…23 Jul 2019HANSARDBritish Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019That the draft Order laid before the House on 2 May be approved. Relevant document: 20th Report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights23 Jul 2019HANSARDBritish Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019I will write to the noble Baroness on that because if people have not even had a conviction or indeed been found guilty of any small crime, that would appear to contradict what I…23 Jul 2019HANSARDBritish Nationality Act 1981 (Remedial) Order 2019My Lords, in this day and age, I think that we can all agree that the law should not discriminate against people simply because their parents were not married when they were born…23 Jul 2019HANSARDImmigration: ChildrenThe noble Baroness will know that the no recourse to public funds condition has been set by successive Governments—it is not new. There are obviously exceptions for refugees…23 Jul 2019