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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, it is 3.20 am, and we are about to start discussing the accommodation and services for unaccompanied children seeking asylum—some of the most vulnerable children in the…07 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt would be acceptable to me, but time and time again, the noble and learned Lord has reiterated what was said in Grand Committee. Surely, that is something he should have asked…07 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, in Committee on Monday, the noble Lord, Lord Murray, used the example of India. We need to question not just how the list has been devised but the minimum criteria the…07 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillRegardless of when the impact assessment will be published, the Minister keeps restating issues as fact. I therefore ask: have those facts been determined by a completed impact…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI have a very important question. The noble Lord and government Ministers keep saying from the Dispatch Box, here and in the other place, that certain things will happen if the…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I want to show the importance of impact assessments. This goes back slightly to the discussion we were having under the last group of amendments, because only one impact…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords—05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI hope the Minister will stop this characterisation of the effects of this Bill as being just on those who arrive by small boats. He just did it again then. Is it not the case…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIn trying to answer my question, the Minister just reiterated what it says in the equality impact assessment. It was an important question. If the central tenet of the Bill is…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillSo the Minister agrees that this is not just about small boats; this is about the whole refugee and immigration system. Where is the evidence that the provisions in this Bill will…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI can help the Minister. I think it is 82% and 91%, on average. The issue is therefore that, once these cases have been looked at, the Home Office is granting people asylum based…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIf they are being abused, what is the percentage success rate of people who were referred in the last two years?05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillWhen the Minister replies to me, can he ensure that a copy goes to the Library, please?05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, I was not going to intervene in this particular group of amendments but, seeing that the two Front Benchers have agreed we are going to stay until 10.40 pm, and as I…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI appreciate that the Minister said that, therefore, a negotiation may have to be done on not sending someone to part of a country. How would the British Government and the Home…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords—05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillFirst, following on from what the Minister said at the beginning of the answer he has just given, when he said that the Government do not feel that it is appropriate to list…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe equality impact assessment that the Government have done on this talks particularly about sexual orientation. The very point that the noble Lord, Lord Cashman, and others have…05 Jun 2023HANSARDPharmacies: Medicines at HomeMy Lords, the Minister said that there were an extra 24,000 pharmacists. He will be aware that community pharmacists have complained that primary care networks are poaching them…17 May 2023HANSARDRedcar SteelworksMy Lords, everybody wants to see regeneration in Teesside, but the National Audit Office has not conducted an audit, just a light-touch review. The last full public audit was…17 May 2023