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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillOh, give over, please. The whole purpose of having this House and the other House discuss amendments and have ping-pong is to achieve a compromise between what this House wants to…24 Nov 2025HANSARDNon-Crime Hate IncidentsThe College of Policing and the National Police Chiefs’ Council are currently undertaking a review of non-crime hate incidents, working closely with the Home Office. The…24 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillJust so the noble Lord has absolutely no excuse not to support what I have said, a broad time period will be reported on, subject to the data being available. We will commence…24 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful for the support of the noble Lord, Lord German. I cannot guarantee that I will be here for ever—nor would I wish to be. I have done 13 years at various Dispatch…24 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, in dealing with this Motion we will also deal with Motion A1. Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A)24 Nov 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThat this House do not insist on its Amendment 37, to which the Commons have disagreed for their Reason 37A.24 Nov 2025HANSARDNon-Crime Hate IncidentsIt is an important use of non-crime hate incidents. As I said earlier, there have been 82,490 race hate crimes, 7,164 religious hate crimes and a range of other offences falling…24 Nov 2025HANSARDNon-Crime Hate IncidentsThe Metropolitan Police has said that it will still record information collected from non-crime hate incidents, which is in line with the code of practice introduced by the…24 Nov 2025HANSARDNon-Crime Hate IncidentsThe noble Baroness is right that one of the purposes of non-crime hate incident assessments is to assess whether there are potential problems or challenges in a particular area.…24 Nov 2025HANSARDNon-Crime Hate IncidentsAs I have indicated to the noble Baroness, we are awaiting the report, and it is fair, if we have commissioned a report, that we wait to see its recommendations. However, an…24 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI am grateful for the noble Lord’s question. I take the view that the Government will determine ultimately which are safe countries. The Government will make that judgment. We are…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, and I will try to answer his questions first of all. I am grateful for the welcome he gave to some of the…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI am grateful for the noble Lord’s support. A number of Members of the House have asked why the Government did not do this a few months ago and what the Government will do next.…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyNo. We need to look at individuals’ asylum claims based on their merit. An individual who is not of working age or is not going to be involved in education or study can have an…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyMy noble friend makes a strong case for what I believe is the Labour Government’s intention, which is to rebuild public services and public trust in government. If he looks across…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyIt is an objective that we have set, one that we are trying to achieve and one that the activities of the last few weeks have shown the Home Secretary to be very focused on…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI remember serving as the noble Lord’s shadow about 10 or 11 years ago, when he was the Immigration Minister and we were both Members of Parliament. I supported a number of the…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyOn the question of Article 8 claims, Article 8 is a qualified right, which means that interferences with it can be justified where it is proportionate to the public interest. We…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI am grateful to my noble friend. We are seeking international reform of the application of Article 3. We will work with partners to reform the application of the ECHR’s…20 Nov 2025HANSARDAsylum PolicyI will try to answer the three broad issues within that. The first is the reduction in time from five years to 30 months. It is not, “At the end of 30 months you are deported”; at…20 Nov 2025