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HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy Lords, there is never a more solemn occasion in this Chamber, in my mind, than when we discuss the issue of child grooming gangs. Noble Lords are all aware of the utterly…04 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe amendments in this group do not require a great deal of commentary from this side of the House. It will not come as any great surprise to the noble Lord, Lord German, given…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for comprehensively explaining the Government’s position on these probing amendments. I listened very carefully to what he said. I was not…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, this is a busy group of, essentially, probing amendments around the subject of immigration advisers and immigration service providers. I shall do my best to be as brief…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness and the noble Lord for their interventions. “In general” is a well-known phrase; it is used in the 2002 Act and in this subsection. If one is…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. Of course, the Minister is correct that, with the prior amendment having been withdrawn, then as a matter of…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, the amendments in this group seek to understand why the Government have decided to remove key parts of the legal architecture that we say provided a robust legal…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions. I take very seriously my noble friend Lord Deben’s comments about humility and trying to be constructive about how we…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI still suggest that it co-operates with a range of human rights mechanisms. India is the world’s largest democracy, a Commonwealth partner and a strategic ally of the United…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI will continue to go through the list. Let us begin with Albania. The amendment proposes to strike from the list of safe countries a NATO member and a nation with which the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am supporting the premise that a genuine asylum seeker should claim asylum when they get to a safe country. Amendment 193, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Davies,…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble and learned Baroness for making that point. I think my noble friend Lord Murray of Blidworth’s argument is that genuine asylum seekers have to claim…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord. My answer is that it is our business and that we can devise an asylum and immigration system for this country—and that entitles us to make the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, this has been a very wide-ranging debate that has departed in many ways from the list in the group that we are debating. But it has been a worthwhile and fascinating…03 Sept 2025HANSARDNitrous Oxide Misuse: DriversMy Lords, the Minister has referred to the legislation passed by the previous Government to criminalise the possession of nitrous oxide for recreational use. Unfortunately, the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, we now come to amendments which seek to reinsert certain provisions of the Illegal Migration Act that the Government are repealing with this Bill. The intention of these…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. At present, we are not minded to support Amendments 97 and 98. I entirely understand the rationale behind them and…10 Jul 2025