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HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI am grateful to the Minister—I am just trying to catch up. On the point that he made about regulations, I imagine that the power to prescribe the descriptions of persons to whom…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I apologise to the Committee that duties elsewhere in the House prevented me from attending the last two debates on Monday and so from speaking to the amendments that I…24 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillI do not know whether I can help. I agree with the noble Baroness: I do not think it is very clear from paragraph 1(1) that there is a regulation-making power. However, if you…24 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, Amendment 3J in my name turned out to be the last one standing. Perhaps I may say just a few words at its funeral. It was not much, perhaps, compared with some of those…22 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAt end insert “, and do propose Amendment 3J in lieu—22 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank all noble Lords who have spoken to my Motion A1. Perhaps I may make two short points in response. First, I say to the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts, who knows…22 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I beg to move Motion A1 as an amendment to Motion A. I do so in the unavoidable absence of the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope of Craighead, who tabled the previous…22 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillMy Lords, I come to this topic rather late and without the star quality in this area that has today been attributed to the noble Lord, Lord Kirkhope. I acknowledge both the work…15 Apr 2024HANSARDData Protection and Digital Information BillThe Minister left us on a tantalising note. He was unable to say whether the law enforcement organisations affected by these clauses will be limited to Counter Terrorism Policing…15 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I do not wish to prolong things, but so we can be completely clear, is the Minister accepting that in circumstances where the Strasbourg court has made an order and it…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I echo the importance of the issue that the noble Lord, Lord Dodds, has raised in his Amendment 44ZA. That issue, in a nutshell, is that relevant provisions of EU law…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, do these exchanges not suggest that many of us are liable to hear what we hope we will hear and that there is good sense therefore, instead of leaving these difficult…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I support all the amendments in this group and will be sorry if, as I suspect may be the case, none of them is put to the vote. I spoke in Committee on the status of…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillDoes the noble and learned Lord take comfort, as I do, and perhaps some people watching these proceedings might do, by recalling that on Monday we agreed to an amendment that…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am very grateful to the Minister. I recall that, of the Grand Chamber in Mamatkulov, 13 of the 14 judges in the majority thought that there were no circumstances in which a…06 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I would like to test the opinion of the House.04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am grateful. I should say in fairness to the Minister that I did have a letter about Northern Ireland. It did not touch on those issues. I acknowledge the confidence with which…04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I rise to move Amendment 9 and address Amendment 12 in my name and those of my noble friend Lord Carlile, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of Manchester and the…04 Mar 2024