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HANSARDPolice: Firearms OfficersI am grateful to the noble and gallant Lord for his question. It is vital both that the police have confidence to exercise their duties, as demanded by this House and the…22 Oct 2024HANSARDPolice: Firearms OfficersI am grateful to the noble Lord for his support and for his welcome. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary is continuing the accountability review that was established by…22 Oct 2024HANSARDPolice: Firearms OfficersIt is for the Home Office to make decisions on a range of issues. Rightly, I am not eligible to become the Crown Prosecution Service and determine what information it presents to…22 Oct 2024HANSARDPolice: Firearms OfficersAgain, I know the noble Lord has great experience of policing, but he will also know that those policing matters, those charging decisions, that acquittal decision and any appeal…22 Oct 2024HANSARDMisuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024. Relevant document: 3rd Report from Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee22 Oct 2024HANSARDMisuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024My Lords, this order was laid before Parliament on 2 September. I thank the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, which I shall, for the purposes of brevity, call the ACMD from…22 Oct 2024HANSARDNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2024That the Grand Committee do consider the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2024.22 Oct 2024HANSARDNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2024It is me and my colleagues again, but perhaps the noble Lord, Lord German, is in a tag team and working to have an input on this order. This order amends the Nationality,…22 Oct 2024HANSARDNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2024I am grateful for noble Lords’ questions, which I will try to answer to help them understand the legislation and its impact—and hopefully to support it. I say to the noble Lord,…22 Oct 2024HANSARDNationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (Juxtaposed Controls) (Amendment) Order 2024The noble Lord, Lord German, asks an interesting and pertinent question. The noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, indicated that, under his administration, it was moving along swimmingly. Let…22 Oct 2024HANSARDMisuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2024I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Doocey, and the noble Lord, Lord Sharpe, for their contributions from both Opposition Front Benches. I will deal initially with the noble…22 Oct 2024HANSARDRefugees (Family Reunion) Bill [HL]I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for bringing the Bill before the House today. I feel a bit of a latecomer to the debate, having heard that there have been four…18 Oct 2024HANSARDImmigration (Guidance on Detention of Vulnerable Persons) Regulations 2024I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Lister for bringing this debate before the Committee and for not just her contribution but those of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, the…14 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsSmall boat arrivals since 5 July are currently 6% below what they were this time last year, and are the lowest for this period since 2021. We are determined to end the dangerous…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her welcome. She will know that it is in everybody’s interests to ensure both that we reduce crossings, which is why we have the border…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsThe noble Lord hits a very strong button on that issue. He will know, I hope, that my right honourable friend the Home Secretary visited Italy only this week—or maybe at the end…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsAbsolutely—my noble friend makes a valid point. My concern is that criminal gangs exploit people who either wish to come here illegally or are being duped when they potentially…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsI hate to disappoint the noble Lord, but no, I do not think it was a tad rash. The Rwanda scheme cost £700 million, four people went to Rwanda as a result of it—voluntarily—and…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsAs my noble friend Lady Smith of Malvern said, legal migration is people who come to university, who come to create jobs and who bring skills to this country. We need that managed…09 Oct 2024HANSARDIllegal MigrantsI first visited camps in Calais when I was shadow Immigration Minister in November 2014. The route then was via lorries and Eurostar trains, rather than small boats. The…09 Oct 2024