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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI thank the Minister for that considered reply, and I am glad to say that I agreed with at least part of what he said. There is much to welcome in Clause 48. I concur that it is…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I declare my interest as a barrister, specialising in public law, including in immigration cases. I will speak to my Amendment 158—and I hope my amendment is not what…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWill the noble Lord give way?03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the Minister and I appreciate the difficulty of the position from which he speaks, and the difficulty of the position of the Home Office in this regard. The point…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI will address Amendment 203J. I declare my interest as a barrister practising in public law and in the immigration space. As noble Lords will have noticed, Amendment 203J does…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWill the noble Lord give way?03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am sure the noble Baroness will agree that she is balancing two things here. First, a problem arises if a young person is put into adult accommodation, as she identifies.…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillForgive me for intervening. I should clarify that the National Age Assessment Board is not using scientific methods, so my amendment has nothing whatever to do with scientific…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I had better rise at this stage to introduce my Amendment 203H. As with my last amendment, the mysteries of grouping have left me slightly confused, because this…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillBecause of the provision we brought in.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIt is the low-hanging fruit.03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. Of the 9,000 that he refers to, how many came across on a small boat?03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to the Minister for his thoughts on that. That is the whole point. The thrust of my submission was that the Supreme Court got the law wrong in that instance.…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Lord, Lord Kerr, is of course right to remember those happy exchanges. I draw his attention to the fact that, obviously, there are many examples in the law of…03 Sept 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillHow does the noble Lord envisage the Secretary of State knowing which cases to bring?23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillPerhaps the noble Lord could explain how it is envisaged that the Secretary of State will know that such a worker has a claim and should win.23 Jul 2025HANSARDEmployment Rights BillMy Lords, first, I declare an interest as a barrister who occasionally practices in employment law. Secondly, in Committee on 18 June, Hansard recalls that I described the Bill as…23 Jul 2025HANSARDPrisons: Early ReleaseTo ask His Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the long-term impact of schemes for early release from prison on public confidence in the justice system.09 Jul 2025HANSARDPrisons: Early ReleaseI thank the Minister for that Answer. Rather than ending automatic early release of prisoners, many of whom now serve only 40% of their sentence in prison, would it not make more…09 Jul 2025