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HANSARDBorder 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 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 hope that the Committee will bear with me as I now bring Joint Committee on Human Rights Amendments 33, 35, 38, 44, 57 and 203 for consideration. Amendment 33 appears…08 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill08 Jul 2025HANSARDArtificial Intelligence: News MediaWill the Minister undertake to view the opening session of the new inquiry by the Joint Committee on Human Rights, held last Wednesday, into human rights and artificial…07 Jul 2025HANSARDSchool LibrariesMy Lords, with one in four children leaving primary school without the appropriate levels of literacy does the Minister agree that the most important thing we should be doing is…30 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI had asked the Minister about compliance with Article 31.26 Jun 2025HANSARDNational Security StrategyMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, describes Iran, North Korea, China and Russia as “a deadly quartet”, all of which have sanctioned Members of the British…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe will come to those arguments on mens rea. They are in later amendments. Perhaps the noble Lord would not want to jump ahead, because the groups of amendments dealing with that…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend, who makes a really important point about the importance of looking again at the things we committed ourselves to in the circumstances…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am very happy to support this string of amendments, which has been introduced very digestibly by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, and deals with the reverse burden of…26 Jun 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, has given us a foretaste of the consideration we will give to Amendment 206, tabled by her noble friend Lady Hamwee and to which I have…26 Jun 2025HANSARDChinese Embassy DevelopmentMy Lords, it is hard to imagine that, if in 1980 the former Soviet Union had asked for a prime site for a new mega-embassy, we in Parliament would have agreed. It is even harder…12 Jun 2025HANSARDUnited Nations International Day of PeaceMy Lords, has the Minister had a chance to look at the reports I sent him over the weekend from Sudan, where over 100 mass graves were discovered in Khartoum and the surrounding…09 Jun 2025HANSARDUkraine: UK Security GuaranteeMy Lords, in the initial reply the Minister gave to the House, she rightly referred to those children who have been abducted from Ukraine. Yesterday, the envoy for missing…05 Jun 2025HANSARDJimmy LaiMy Lords, I join the Minister in conveying my own gratitude to the right reverend Prelate for the outstanding contribution he has made on this and on so many issues over his time…22 May 2025HANSARDRecalled Offenders: Sentencing LimitsMy Lords, many of us applauded the appointment of the noble Lord, Lord Timpson, as the Prisons Minister, because he has such commitment to this cause and we still applaud him for…19 May 2025HANSARDImmigration SystemMy Lords, yesterday the Joint Committee on Human Rights began its legislative scrutiny of the borders Bill. Among the issues raised is, inevitably, Article 8, which the noble Lord…15 May 2025HANSARDGreat British Energy BillLeave out from “propose” to end and insert “Amendment 2C in lieu—30 Apr 2025