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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I oppose Amendments 151 and 152 and endorse and support the amendment of my noble friend Lady Lawlor. The noble Lord, Lord Watson of Invergowrie, will know that there…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI will respond, with all due respect, to the noble Lord’s comments about minors. We should bear in mind that this amendment would apply to people who would be subject to the…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, it gives me great pleasure to speak to Amendment 203A in my name and to contribute to the wider deliberations of the Committee. It almost feels as if this Bill is from a…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIs my noble friend as pleased as I am by the news that the new Home Secretary is a keen reader of the amendments that His Majesty’s loyal Opposition have put down on this Bill?…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I will not detain your Lordships’ House too long with this amendment because it is straightforward. It relates to the piece of the jigsaw that is missing in respect of…08 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I contribute briefly to this debate to strongly support my noble friend on the Front Bench in her excellent amendments, both in respect of houses in multiple occupation…04 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I emphatically support the excellent Amendment 203J, to insert a new clause after Clause 48, moved so ably by my noble friend Lord Murray of Blidworth. It is important…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe Minister anticipated my point, and the noble Baroness put it much more clearly. I was going to ask whether there would be periodic production of qualitative and quantitative…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBefore the noble and learned Baroness sits down, if I may, for the avoidance of doubt, I was not arguing that it would be merely a subjective assessment or value judgment of…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI absolutely applaud the laudable work of UNICEF. The point that I was attempting to make was that we must focus our efforts on weeding out those who are clearly, as she concedes,…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support the amendments on age assessments moved by my noble friend Lord Davies of Gower. When we ventilated these issues in 2023, when we were looking at the then…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I oppose the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hendy. In doing so, I accept that he is very sincere in the arguments that he makes. I would not necessarily…23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 149A—and Amendment 149, spoken to very ably by my noble friend Lord Evans of Rainow. He is absolutely right about the qualifying…23 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-France Migration: Co-operationMy Lords, I remind the Minister very gently that his Government have a duty and responsibility to the tax-paying, law-abiding citizens of this country, not just to supranational…17 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, I will speak very briefly to Amendment 25 in the name of my noble friend Lord Sharpe of Epsom. I reiterate his key point that the imperative is to make it clear that the…14 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 172. I would genuinely press the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, to elucidate the meaning behind it, because I find it quite confusing. The…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI have to ask my noble friend a fundamental question. Regarding the biometric data that we currently retain across all the agencies of government, if that system is working, why…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWell, if there are appropriate safeguards—I know that is a big “if”—and if there is proper scrutiny and oversight of the issuance of those ID cards, I believe they would allow a…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I remember those long evenings over the last two years when we debated the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act 2024. The words of Pyrrhus come to mind, because…10 Jul 2025