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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Lord referred to the extension to 10 years of the period of waiting on indefinite leave to remain while seeking citizenship. That does not, I hope, apply retrospectively…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIt is a privilege to follow the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, and I was delighted to add my name to Amendment 177. I have very little to add to his introduction of the amendment, but it…13 Oct 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, for her interesting statistics. As a former chairman of a university court, I find high student numbers a cause for delight. I…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWill the Minister reflect a little more on the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Rees? He said that the noble Lord made a powerful case—I think we all thought that. His…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillSo the Goschen/Empey number is neither here nor there. It is not a watertight compartment. The country can decide how much money to put into legal aid. There is also an offsetting…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Bach. Had I been awake, I would have added my name to it, but I was sleeping in the Recess. He describes a situation…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI would like to find that there is something on which I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Jackson of Peterborough. I think his point about assisting assimilation is very strong, but…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI agree with everything that the noble Lord said, although I slightly dissent from his description of his discussions with his civil servants. I used to be a civil servant and I…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I concur with the noble Baroness’s point about proceedings lasting for ever, but one must not take that point too far. It takes one into authoritarian territory where we…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Murray, inspires me to join in. His reading of the refugee convention is one with which the House is familiar—we have heard it down the…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI wonder if I could put to the noble Lord the question that the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, put, which he did not answer in the previous debate? The amendment…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am inclined to agree with the noble Lord, but that does not lead me to have any sympathy at all for Amendment 203J.03 Sept 2025HANSARDIndependent Water CommissionMy Lords, will the Minister have the White Paper consider, and perhaps consider for the Bill, the idea of setting minimum annual investment requirements? I do not know much about…23 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I think the noble Baroness was a little unkind to the noble Lord, Lord Davies of Gower, who made an admirable speech: gallantry in a hopeless cause is always extremely…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I support these two amendments in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee, for the very reasons she gives. Clause 34 is very welcome and I am very glad that the…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI see the point that the noble Lord is making, but it is important that he recognise that what the Australian Government did, and did again, was to arrange for Australian asylum…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWe are all on the same side here, and I appreciate the spirit of the Minister’s remarks. I appreciate that he stated that he will reflect on what we have said from all sides of…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIf I may correct the noble Lord, the Australian arrangement was offshoring, not offloading.10 Jul 2025HANSARDHouse of Lords (Hereditary Peers) BillThe thing I find odd about the argument just advanced, and, indeed, about the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Parkinson, and the way in which he introduced…02 Jul 2025HANSARDUK-Mauritius Agreement on the Chagos ArchipelagoI join the tributes to the noble Lord, Lord Boswell, whose chairing of the European Committee I greatly admired, and the tributes to an excellent maiden speech. Like father, like…30 Jun 2025