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HANSARDSafety 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) 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 2024HANSARDInternational Humanitarian LawOn the issue of international conventions, treaties and international law, including international humanitarian law and the international refugee convention, will the Attorney…14 Mar 2024HANSARDAsylum and MigrationDoes my right hon. Friend recall that when it was announced that £500 million was being made available to the French for some form of processing centre, the European Union…14 Mar 2024HANSARDGibraltar: UK-EU NegotiationsOn Friday, the Minister for Europe wrote to me as Chairman of the European Scrutiny Committee. He is in Gibraltar today and, following the granting of this urgent question, and to…11 Mar 2024HANSARDGibraltar: UK-EU Negotiations(Urgent Question): Will the Minister make a statement on UK negotiations with the EU in respect of Gibraltar?11 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillDoes my hon. Friend also accept that it would be impossible for a criminal trial determining whether an offence has been committed to go through all these variations to work out…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillVicariously, this is about criminal law, not matters relating to the European Union’s general administrative arrangements.01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillThe hon. Gentleman has not yet referred to clause 7. I would be most interested to know whether he is going to explain how this review would operate. It applies in different…01 Mar 2024HANSARD Conversion Practices (Prohibition) BillWould the Minister be good enough to give some indication of what such a draft pre-legislative Bill would look like? The arguments presented from our side of the equation…01 Mar 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleI would first like to refer to some figures from the past five years on the complaints made by licence fee payers—that is, taxpayers, 90-odd per cent of whom pay for the BBC.…27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleWould my right hon. Friend like to lay a bet that these particular proceedings will not appear on “Today in Parliament” tomorrow morning?27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleWill the Minister be good enough to take into account the views of Baroness Deech KC, a Cross Bencher in the House of Lords who was a governor of the BBC? She wrote an important…27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleThat would be true. Surely an improvement would be to have a test within a few months—a review of what has already been done under the new system that has been created. If that…27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleWill the Minister commit to putting forward the idea that there should be a proper definition, along the lines of the Oxford dictionary, as I mentioned, so that we have a…27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleDoes the hon. Lady agree that although the word “racist” is often used in this context, much of it is actually to do with divisions of opinion on matters of religion, and that is…27 Feb 2024HANSARD BBC News Impartiality: Government's RoleOn the broader question of the charter itself, a royal charter confers a privilege, which is effectively a kind of monopoly. Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that the…27 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandAs my right hon. Friend may expect, I shall now refer to section 38 and ask him a question about it. On the amendments made under the statutory instrument—which is not by Act of…01 Feb 2024HANSARD Northern IrelandI am extremely glad to hear the hon. Gentleman make that point. To conclude, I simply say that you can read the crystal ball, but the question is: can you always read the book?01 Feb 2024