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Written Question
Immigration Controls: Overseas Students
Wednesday 24th January 2024

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to ensure that measures to reduce legal migration do not damage the reputation of the UK’s university sector or imperil their financial sustainability.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

An Impact Assessment was produced and considered in developing the student package of reforms. We regularly engage with a range of stakeholders when developing policy.

In March 2019, the Government published the International Education Strategy: global potential, global growth. It set out two key ambitions to achieve by 2030: to increase education exports to £35 billion and to increase the numbers of international higher education students studying in the UK to 600,000. This has been achieved earlier than planned over the last two years.


Written Question
Abortion: Demonstrations
Wednesday 22nd November 2023

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government when they propose to implement legislation on buffer zones around abortion clinics.

Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)

I refer to the statement made by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Home Office in the House of Lords on 20th November.


Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 31 Oct 2022
Police and Crime Commissioners and Panels

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 18 Jul 2022
Mr Mike Veale

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 12 May 2022
Queen’s Speech

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Written Question
British Nationality
Tuesday 1st February 2022

Asked by: Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether the proposed powers in clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill (HL Bill 82) to enable the Secretary of State to rescind British citizenship without notice for those with or entitled to dual citizenship would apply to anyone automatically (1) in possession of, or (2) entitled to, citizenship of another country based on a parent's country of birth, whether or not they choose to exercise that entitlement; and if so, whether they have notified other national governments of this change.

Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)

The use of powers under section 40 may apply regardless of the person’s nationality or country of origin or that of their parents, but it must comply with the UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Clause 9 of the Nationality and Borders Bill relates solely to how a person is notified of a decision to deprive them of their British citizenship. There is no change to the reasons for which a person could be deprived of their British citizenship or to their right of appeal.


Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Nov 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 01 Nov 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 27 Oct 2021
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

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