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HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAs a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, I was in Rwanda last Thursday. More particularly, I was in the Rwandan Parliament. I can confirm to your Lordships’ House that,…04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe characterisation of the mentality in Rwanda that the noble Lord asserts does not reflect that of the community representatives whom the JCHR met last week. It is clear from…04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIs the logic of the noble Lord’s point therefore that the Government would be better to repeal the Human Rights Act completely and revert to the pre-1998 situation?04 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIt is very interesting that the noble Lord should refer to the effectiveness of the Albania arrangement. The document that the noble Lord likes to refer to in relation to the…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWill the noble Lord give way?19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords—19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIs it not the case that the answer to the question of the noble Lord, Lord Anderson, is that it depends? We know from the Policy Exchange paper and many other sources that there…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThere is nothing wrong with sending adults, I said rhetorically, because that is the effect of Section 57. Those who are found to be adults may be sent, and if they wish to…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy noble friend the Minister might want to make reference to the powers that this Parliament has already passed in Section 57 of the Illegal Migration Act, which provide for those…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, it is always a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Green. For my part, I agree with his assessment. However, it is one of the unfortunate features of the area that…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOf course it is right that NSK’s application for an interim injunction was heard by the High Court—by the lead judge of the Administrative Court—and the interim relief application…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe noble Baroness appears to suggest that, because the Bill disapplies Section 6, local authorities would be obliged to act or could act in a manner that was unlawful. She…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, tempted though I am to engage with the noble Lord, Lord Kerr, on that very interesting philosophical question, that might be beyond the ambit of this particular…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI will give way to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, in a second. The very idea that, in some way, the argument would be better achieved by accelerating the process is simply…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI find it a little odd for the noble Baroness to say that she is criticising the Government for disapplying various provisions of the Human Rights Act, yet criticising us for not,…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am afraid that the amendment still has no purpose. The point is, as I hope I demonstrated to your Lordships’ Committee, that the decision as to whether and how to act on a…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillA moment ago we heard the noble Lord read out the list of the international conventions set out in Clause 1(6), as though in some way it would disapply them domestically. That is…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIs it not right that Clause 4 of the Bill provides exclusively that members of the judiciary will have the opportunity to consider challenges brought of an individual nature in…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 9 and 13. I obviously have the greatest respect for my noble friend Lord Hailsham and the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, but let us look…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI thank the noble Lord for giving way. Does he agree that the divisional court in the Rwanda proceedings upheld the principle of remote, third-country processing—that it was…12 Feb 2024