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HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI have a specific question to ask. I do not doubt the Minister’s motives or morality; I think that doing this is just wrong. On 12 July—I checked the record—the Minister’s…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, perhaps it is only the House of Lords that when asked to find a precedent can refer back to 1531. I say to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hoffman, that I was aware of…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe Government are asking us to be the perpetual judge of the legislation and actions of another country. That puts the legislature in an unusual position. In fact, it puts it…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am grateful to the noble Baroness. The Minister might see two examples and ask when it becomes a pattern. Again, I am not a judge for it. As I was saying, we are not just asked…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe noble Lord is an expert in these areas. If the Bill goes through, what is his estimate of how many people will be relocated from the backlog that he has referred to, and over…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWhat are the mechanisms —since, as my noble friend Lord Scriven said, the courts are no longer able to look at this—by which we can judge whether Rwanda will adhere to its treaty…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThere is no obligation on the monitoring committee to publish its report, so how will we know what they are?14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillNot on the theory point but on the practical point of what the Bill states, can the Minister just expand a bit more? He said that there will be a monitoring committee that will…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I speak to Amendment 74 in my name in this group and associate myself with all the questions that the noble Lord, Lord Coaker, asked. I will also, with this amendment,…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am grateful to the noble Lord and, to some extent, I agree with him. If we have a legal migration system that has been a catastrophic failure, and the Government then seem to…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe person who would have a right to asylum in the UK under this Bill would no longer have the right to asylum in the UK. It is completely different. They may have a right to…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIn the UK.14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, Mary is 19; she is in Gezira, in Sudan, just by the Ethiopian border. She has been offered employment as domestic staff in Dubai and her passport is taken away for the…14 Feb 2024HANSARDChildren in GazaI am grateful to the Chief Whip. UNICEF has said today that 600,000 displaced children are in Rafah in Gaza. That is comparable to the entire under-12 population of Scotland being…13 Feb 2024HANSARDPalestinian State: UK RecognitionMy Lords, I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s comments on the flexibility of recognising the state of Palestine before there is a full agreement with the State of Israel. I declare…13 Feb 2024HANSARDChildren in GazaMy Lords, the Foreign Secretary referred to UNICEF—13 Feb 2024HANSARDDeveloping World: Debt ReductionI agree with the Foreign Secretary about increasing the capacity of Governments’ treasuries and their finance ministries to collect their own revenues, as well as trade…13 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillFor the Minister to be persuasive in response to that question, he would not have said that they are working towards putting safeguards in place—safeguards which have to be in…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillAs the Minister confirmed to me, by definition, the safeguards that would make Rwanda safe are not in place, because the Rwandan Government are “working towards” having them in…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am grateful to the Minister. That is the closest we have got to an answer: “working towards”. Can we pursue that a wee bit more? If the Rwandan Government are “working towards”…12 Feb 2024