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HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, this part of the Committee’s deliberation is on Clause 5, “Interim measures of the European Court of Human Rights”. I will speak to a number of amendments in this group,…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I support the amendments in this group and seek to tease out a couple of answers from the Minister on these issues. Under the 1951 refugee convention, membership of a…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have taken part in this predominantly technical debate on the view of the UK’s legal position if it were to ignore an interim measure from…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOr she.19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I have added my name to this amendment. Because of the lateness of the hour, I will not repeat any of the arguments for why the amendment is needed. I will add an extra…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe Minister quite rightly says that it is in the treaty—under Article 11, I assume. But that article says that the person will come back to the United Kingdom only with the…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I am again a poor substitute for my noble friend Lord German. This group is a suite of amendments that look at disapplication of not just the Human Rights Act but whole…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, as we enter day two and the world of fantasy and fiction on the Bill, which is based on the premise of an untruth, I am the fiction of my noble friend Lord German—his…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe Minister cannot get away with this. This is a clear issue of an amendment that has been put specifically regarding these people. Section 22(2) disapplies the prohibition of…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords for contributing to what has been a very powerful and at times deeply moving debate. It reminds us that we are talking not about a group with a…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 22, 37 and 42 in the name of my noble friend Lord German, to which I have put my name. These are probing amendments to bring out the…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, the Minister has raised a really important point concerning the treaty. Clause 2(4) states that “a court or tribunal must not consider … any claim or complaint that the…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillIf the arrangements in the treaty are not in place, that would be specific to the individual, yet the Bill excludes that being looked at by the court. Would that kind of…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for his responses, which are always courteous and detailed. However, I probably speak for many noble Lords when I say that he is dancing on the head…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, because of the lateness of the hour, I will speak to this suite of important amendments quite quickly, because I am sure that other noble Lords want to listen to some of…14 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I wish to speak to this group of amendments; I apologise to the Committee that I could not be here for Second Reading. Even though I was on the estate, I had a bad chest…12 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillTo be helpful, as the Minister finds his place, what is clearly becoming a bone of contention between the Government Front Bench and the Committee is the progress that has been…12 Feb 2024