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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWell, they sent an email. The noble Lord, Lord German, is right to point out, from a sedentary position, that it was perhaps not done through the most courteous of routes.…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I echo the remarks that the noble Lord, Lord Deben, made about the blame game and the importance of us all working with the Government to do what we can to try to tackle…03 Sept 2025HANSARD“Hillsborough Law”My Lords, Andrew Devine was my constituent. He died in 2021, the 97th victim of Hillsborough, 32 years after his chest was crushed and he was deprived of oxygen. We owe it, as the…24 Jul 2025HANSARDEnterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025My Lords, I hope to be able to persuade the noble Lord, Lord Robertson, who knows that I have enormous respect for him, that the safeguards are not good enough and that he should…22 Jul 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy: Nuclear DevelopmentMy Lords, given the announcement at the weekend that £200 million is going to be spent through Great British Energy to purchase solar panels from China, how can the Minister…22 Jul 2025HANSARDOfficial Development AssistanceMy Lords, given that conflict is one of the reasons why development is always impeded, has the Minister had a chance to look at the correspondence last week between the Foreign…21 Jul 2025HANSARDSyria: Druze CommunityMy Lords, the Minister will have seen the recent reports of the murder of 25 believers who were assembled in a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus. She will know also about the…17 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I will be brief, because I agree wholeheartedly with the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, particularly about the position of domestic migrant workers. This is something we…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, whether or not President Macron is tuned into our debate today and supportive of what noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, has just said, she will be glad to know, as I was,…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the Minister. He will recall the example I gave of a two year-old boy in Sudan wanting to be reunited with his grandmother. It took 11 months to do that, and it…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI agree with the general thrust of the argument the noble Lord, Lord Harper, is putting to the Committee. He talked about getting the balance right, and that is really what I was…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI recall that I was keen to tell the noble Lord, Lord German, that in fact paragraphs 1 to 52 had been agreed unanimously. There were Divisions in the report—I mentioned that—but…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I too am a signatory to Amendment 49. It is a great pleasure to support both amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady May. In parenthesis, I should say that,…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI do not wish to detain the Committee now, but will the noble Lord, at some point between now and Report, at least have a conversation with me about what he thinks is draconian in…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for the way in which he has dealt with this group of amendments and for the thorough response he has given to your Lordships in…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Baroness is quite right. This issue was specifically raised by Mr Alex Sobel, Member of Parliament for Leeds, who encouraged us to include those words about hygiene. It…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI was about to say that I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Harper, for the other points he made but, yes, we are agreed about that too. I thank his noble friend, the noble…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his response to this long list of amendments. I apologised earlier to the Committee that, inevitably, it was going to take time to get…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBefore the noble Lord sits down, he will remember that I asked him some questions about the national referral mechanism. I do not expect an answer now, but will he agree to write…08 Jul 2025