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HANSARD BBC Mid-term Charter ReviewIt is at the heart of the BBC’s priorities in theory, but not in practice. Ofcom is insufficiently independent, and it is understood that there are deep concerns about the…09 May 2024HANSARD BBC Mid-term Charter ReviewI hope that my right hon. Friend will appreciate that my intention is to point to how statistical data is analysed, which may sound extremely boring but lies at the heart of…09 May 2024HANSARD BBC Mid-term Charter ReviewIndeed. The proof was in the pudding and was demonstrated by the outcome of the referendum on 23 June 2016. My hon. Friend is right. Actually, this is about unconscious bias in…09 May 2024HANSARD BBC Mid-term Charter ReviewAs ever, my hon. Friend, who has enormous experience of all this, will add a lot to this debate. He mentioned what was done some years ago compared with now. Has he been watching…09 May 2024HANSARDTopical QuestionsOn Gibraltar, the Minister has stated that our current EU negotiations are consistent with UK sovereignty. How will that be achieved, given our defence and RAF assets as well as…30 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWould my right hon. and learned Friend also care to note that Lord Hoffman, in the case of R v. Lyons—in relation to a European Court of Human Rights case—was unequivocal when he…22 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI reciprocate the Minister’s comment because, in so far as I may have rather infelicitously suggested that he has repeated himself, I have to confess that I, too, have repeated…17 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillGiven that the noble Lord Coaker has brought this forward in one shape or another several times, and given that it is central to the debate, in the light of what I said in my…17 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI simply want to put it to the hon. Gentleman that, as the rule of law includes the basis of sovereignty, it is quite clear—from one great jurist to another right the way down…17 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI will be brief and focus entirely on Lord Coaker’s amendment 1D, which I have already mentioned in interventions. The problem with the wording that he put forward in debate is…17 Apr 2024HANSARDCass ReviewAlthough I would like to believe that many of these problems will be resolved by guidance and by changing the administrative rules, and things of that kind, I fear that the real…15 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI returned to the Chamber especially to hear my right hon. and learned Friend, and I was delighted to hear what he just said. At last, he has seen the light.15 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI do not really feel that there is anything terribly useful I can say at this stage—I have heard all this before. The hon. Member for Aberavon (Stephen Kinnock), who speaks for…15 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWill the hon. Lady give way?15 Apr 2024HANSARD Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI was going to point out that section 57 of the Immigration Act 2023, to which the hon. Lady refers, makes the perfectly reasonable point that the courts must take account of the…15 Apr 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillWill the right hon. Lady give way?18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am bound to say, with no disrespect to the noble Lords, who passed this amendment with a majority of 102, that they do not have that legitimacy because constitutionally they are…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillNo. Amendment 1, put forward by the House of Lords, completely contradicts that principle, because in its wording it makes both domestic law and international law combined a…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillOn a point of order, Mr Deputy Speaker. I in no way wish to seem churlish, but the right hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull North (Dame Diana Johnson) refused to accept an…18 Mar 2024HANSARDSafety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) BillI am extremely grateful, because this question goes right to the heart of the matter. Paragraph 144 of the Rwanda judgment itself is unequivocal: the President of the Supreme…18 Mar 2024