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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI will come to address the issues of the broad applicability of the Section 19(1)(b) statement. There is no requirement in the Act for a statement to identify any particular…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThat is correct: the ECHR memorandum is one of the documents prepared to support the Bill in its passage through Parliament. Obviously, if a matter of interpretation were…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs I have already outlined, it is clear that there is nothing in the Bill that would require the UK to breach its international obligations. The UK takes compliance with those…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillForgive me: as I thought I said, the status of a child born in the UK to a woman who meets the conditions in Clause 2 is that they would not satisfy the conditions in that clause.…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThat is entirely correct, yes. Their asylum claim will be determined by the Government of Rwanda. That is the system that the High Court found to be entirely lawful in December.…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that I again find myself at odds with the noble Lord. The reality is that the UN itself relocates refugees to Rwanda. As I say, there is no suggestion that people’s…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt was Amendment 137.24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI thank the noble Baroness for that intervention. The reality is that the Government take legal advice. The UNHCR is clearly a UN body; it is not charged with the interpretation…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillNo, I am sorry to say. Clearly the position is not that in every case where there is a change in the criminal law it should have retrospective effect to the date of the Bill’s…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillCertainly. The structure of the Nationality and Borders Act 2022 was very different. It was not a Bill like this one, which focuses on a duty to remove and is targeted at creating…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, as the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, said, echoed by the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, Clause 2 is the centrepiece of the scheme provided for in the Bill. At its heart,…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe House knows my position. I have obviously heard what the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, and the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, have said, and I will of course take those points back…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe impact assessment will be provided when the decision is taken that it is appropriate to disclose it.24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe Government do not recognise the figures in the purported impact assessments provided by the bodies that were referred to, such as the Refugee Council, because we do not…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that I can tell the noble Lord only that it will be published in due course and that this is entirely normal.24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs I said, I will be writing to the noble and learned Baroness, but the House will recall that the noble Lord, Lord Wolfson, set out various examples, including Ullah and…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThat is consistent with the normal practice in statute.24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe context of a strained decision, as the noble and learned Baroness will be aware, are circumstances where there is an ordinary, natural reading of a statute but a judge feels…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe answer to the question, if I have understood the noble Lord, is yes, but I think he misinterprets the purpose of Section 3 of the Human Rights Act. It is not the clause by…24 May 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, Clause 1 sets out the Bill’s overarching purpose and provides an overview of the provisions in the Bill. The purpose of the Bill is to prevent and deter illegal…24 May 2023