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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Cameron, for his introduction to Amendments 120 and 110, which respectively seek to retain the Schedule 1 list of countries to which a person…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful for our agreement on the answering of the question and I retain my position. I hope noble Lords will not press their amendments.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for his detailed questions. At 10.19 pm, it is a great test of stamina to examine those issues in some detail. The noble Lord is proposing that…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI have before me in my notes a full encyclopaedia of responses to the many points the noble Lord made, and I am very happy to go through them. However, it may be more…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful—again—for the amendments which have elicited this discussion. I want to put a central premise before the Committee: that age assessments, as has been proved by the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful again, as ever, to His Majesty’s loyal Opposition and to the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for their amendments. I give them the general assurance that we are…03 Sept 2025HANSARDNitrous Oxide Misuse: DriversI am grateful to the noble Lord. It is not acceptable to have that level of abuse, and it not acceptable for people to blatantly break the law. It may interest him that 378…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to noble Lords for what has been a very wide discussion, wider than I anticipated. I sense that at the end of the debate I probably will not have satisfied many…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe will take a whole-government approach to this issue. I would like to reflect on this with colleagues who are directly dealing with the matter and will respond. We are in…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Lord, Lord Empey, will know that the Government keep all matters under review at all times—that is the political, Civil Service direct answer in response to this matter.…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe intervention that I took invited me to examine that issue. I have said I will examine it, but, as I said in response to that question, the focus of the Government as a whole…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI thought that was what I said. I hope we can agree, at the end of this group of amendments that was livelier than I initially anticipated, that the Committee can support the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIn a moment. I will always give way, if the noble Lord will let me finish the sentence. Of the total returns, 5,179 were of foreign national offenders, an increase of 14% over the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her comments and the tone in which she has put them. She is absolutely right about the debate on migration, illegal migration, asylum and…02 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumAs the noble Lord is one of the former Ministers in this House who have dealt with immigration, I know he will understand very clearly the challenges the Government face and the…02 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumWe are open to a range of discussions on any issue because it is a manifesto commitment for us to end hotel use by the end of this Parliament. The Prime Minister, the Home…02 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumThat is a very valid question, and I am grateful for the broad support that the noble Lord has given to the proposals before us. We have said in the immigration Bill, and we have…02 Sept 2025HANSARDBorders and AsylumTo live in this country requires basic adherence to tenets of good behaviour, and if foreign nationals commit offences then they should be deported at the end of their sentence.…02 Sept 2025HANSARDPublic Order LegislationMy Lords, post-legislative scrutiny of the Public Order Act 2023 began in May 2025. It will assess how the Act operates in practice. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act…02 Sept 2025HANSARDPublic Order LegislationI am grateful to my noble friend. As I have just said, legislation is kept under review at all times. We have legislation coming before this House very shortly in the Crime and…02 Sept 2025