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HANSARDRefugee Family Reunion SchemeThe Government uphold the principle of family unity and want to ensure that we maintain that. We have to examine the reason for the significant drive in family reunion…14 Oct 2025HANSARDRefugee Family Reunion SchemeWe have had a lot of discussion over the last couple of days on the immigration Bill about the question of what forms a relative. Amendments have been proposed to the Bill that…14 Oct 2025HANSARDRefugee Family Reunion SchemeAgain, I do not wish to pre-empt the review that is taking place. We are looking at what the reasons are. The growth has occurred over the last three to four years. That might…14 Oct 2025HANSARDRefugee Family Reunion SchemeThe advice I would give is that there are a number of routes that individuals can apply to in order to exercise their right to join their family. Those routes are available and…14 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionAs it happens, my right honourable friend Dame Diana Johnson chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee then. She then became a Home Office Minister and is fully aware of the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionAs the noble Baroness will know, more than 111,000 people claimed asylum in the UK in the year ending June 2025. Almost half of the initial decisions—48%—were grants, which means…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionThe Government do not publish statistics on asylum claims based on religious conversion. All claims, including those based on religious conversion, are carefully assessed…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillAgain, this may or may not satisfy the noble Lord—I apologise if it does not do so—but work is under way to review the application of Articles 3 and 8 in immigration cases. We…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful, as ever, for the opportunity to have this discussion. I have to say straight away to the noble Lords, Lord Davies of Gower and Lord Murray of Blidworth, that we are…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord German, for speaking to the amendments on behalf of the noble Baroness, Lady Brinton. They have raised two specific issues, as the noble…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am genuinely grateful to noble Lords who have tabled these amendments. I thank the noble Baronesses, Lady Hamwee and Lady Jones, the noble Lords, Lord German, Lord Jackson and…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionI am very happy to give my noble friend that assurance. As I said, the Government want to meet their international obligations and will do so under refugee conventions and…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe are identifying challenges that the Government have responsibilities to identify and work on. The challenges that we are identifying exist for some of the reasons mentioned by…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionThe Home Office continues to have discussions with Church leaders on a range of matters, including asylum. I say to the noble Lord—I hope this is helpful—that if he is asking,…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI suggest that the noble Lord tests me on these matters when we have, as I have said, undertaken the work, reviewed potential legislation, brought forward proposals and put them…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, for Amendment 203L. I am also grateful for the latter point made by the noble Lord, Lord Sandhurst, because it is very possible…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionI hope the noble Lord will forgive me, but I do not have the figures directly in front of me and I would not wish to give him a spurious figure. I will reflect on his question and…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionThe noble Lord is absolutely right: it is integral to the success of the immigration and asylum system that those who have no right to remain in the United Kingdom are removed…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend Lady Lister of Burtersett for proposing the amendment and for the support that she had from the noble Lord, Lord German, in relation to…13 Oct 2025HANSARDAsylum Claims: Religious ConversionI am grateful to my noble friend. He gives me the opportunity to repeat the fact that the Government have recruited an extra 1,000 individuals to work on speeding up asylum…13 Oct 2025