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HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, what I have said was that I have not seen the Home Office legislation. I have not been called upon to review it.19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I will look into that. Presumably, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office will take this matter under its wing. The noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, refers to…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I am not fully clear that I follow the import of the question that the noble Lord poses. If he will bear with me, I am going to defer answering that point and will do so…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, the point is that the treaty, while it has not been ratified, is a matter of agreement. I spoke about the work—19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions to an interesting debate on this important point. Clause 4 provides that a Home Office decision-maker, or a court or…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, the treaty guarantees that anyone relocated to Rwanda will be given safety and support and will not be returned to a country where their life or freedom will be…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe answer to the former is that it does not fall to me to read the Rwandan legislation; but, given that decisions are taken collectively by the Government, I can answer the noble…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, any work being done to improve a place is desirable of itself.19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI reiterate my previous answer: the fact that further work is being done does not mean that the safety or otherwise of a place is conditional on the completion of that further…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThat is a decision not for me to take. It will be taken by the Government collectively. I am not in a position to give a date to the noble Lord, if he was asking me to give one.…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy noble friend Lord Sharpe confirmed to me a moment ago that the monitoring committee is already operational; it is up and running.19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI did not. I said that just because safeguards have not yet been fully put in place, it does not mean, as a result, that Rwanda cannot be deemed safe.19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillThe noble Baroness indeed anticipated me as I was turning to that point. As she says, the noble Lord, Lord Purvis, had touched on that. I have the statement by the United Nations…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I will expand on the matter in the correspondence to which I referred the noble Lord. I will go into more detail about the work that has been and is being conducted…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, in the first instance, the monitoring committee consists of not four but eight people. If I might express the words of my noble friend sitting next to me on the Front…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, what I said was that on the passing of the Bill, Rwanda is safe. What I say is that it is—19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillMy Lords, I am not in a position to go into detailed discussion on this point, but I have given the Government’s position on the amenability of judicial review in relation to…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI undertake to correspond with the noble and learned Lord on that. Amendments 58, 60 and 61 would bind the United Kingdom Government, preventing a Minister of the Crown or…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI think the answer to the first point is that the Victims and Prisoners Bill relates to victims, a matter on which the Attorney-General, exercising her supervision over aspects of…19 Feb 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI gave the noble Baroness a list of the recommendations, or the proposed amendments to the rules, but I do not see them as answering all of the concerns which the noble Lord, Lord…19 Feb 2024