Government Response Mar. 14 2024
Committee: Constitution CommitteeFound: Government response to Safety Of Rwanda (Asylum And Immigration) Bill report Government Response
Written Evidence May. 28 2024
Inquiry: Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UKFound: We use the law to defend and extend people’s rights.
Mentions:
1: Viscount Hailsham (Con - Life peer) Furthermore, although I am not an expert in this field at all—I have not practised in immigration law - Speech Link
2: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) does not criminalise or discriminate against sexual orientation in law or policy. - Speech Link
3: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP - Life peer) relevant to immigration cases, and that EU law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights continue to - Speech Link
4: Lord Stewart of Dirleton (Con - Life peer) immigration policy engages Article 2.For Article 2 to be engaged by this Bill, it would be necessary - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Immigration) Bill, HC 435, and the Government response, HC 647.] - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) leaving them in immigration limbo forever in this ridiculous, expensive and unworkable system. - Speech Link
3: Diana Johnson (Lab - Kingston upon Hull North) and disapplies aspects of international law.” - Speech Link
4: Margaret Greenwood (Lab - Wirral West) of law is valued and respected. - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill does not undermine the UK's duty to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into the law of Northern Ireland, including facilitating both (1) direct access to the courts, and (2) remedies for breaches of the Convention.
Answered by Lord Sharpe of Epsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Home Office)
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will apply in full in Northern Ireland in the same way it does in the rest of the UK. This is set out on the face of the Bill, reflecting that immigration policy is a UK-wide matter. There is nothing in the Windsor Framework that affects that. The Bill does not engage the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement, including the rights chapter – those rights seek to address longstanding and specific issues relating to Northern Ireland’s past and do not extend to matters engaged by the bill. The Government remains fully committed to that Agreement in all its parts.
I have written to Sir Jeffrey Donaldson in relation to this. The letter will be published in the House Library in due course.
To provide further reassurance on these points, the published factsheet on this Bill has been updated to reflect this: Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill: factsheet - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Correspondence May. 24 2024
Committee: European Scrutiny CommitteeFound: Letter from the Chair to Rt Hon Kemi Badenoch MP regarding Retained EU law : the progress and mechanics
Mentions:
1: None to the safety of both Georgia and India, including consideration of their respect for the rule of law - Speech Link
2: Lord German (LD - Life peer) Georgia are safe states for the purposes of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002; and that - Speech Link
3: None Georgia and India, including consideration of their respect for the rule of law and human rights. - Speech Link
Written Evidence May. 28 2024
Inquiry: Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UKFound: ASU0089 - Human Rights of Asylum Seekers in the UK Discrimination Law Association Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Baroness Lawlor (Con - Life peer) France finally passed its own immigration law and, within weeks, the constitutional court of that country - Speech Link
2: Lord Wilson of Dinton (XB - Life peer) It is an important part of immigration policy but not the biggest. - Speech Link
3: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) immigration and asylum law that will work and be based on the principles of which this country has always - Speech Link
4: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) discriminate against sexual orientation in law or policy. - Speech Link
5: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) This is explicit in the Bill and will always be the case, reflecting that immigration policy is a UK-wide - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 16 2024
Inquiry: Electronic border management systemsFound: EBM0020 - Electronic border management systems Laura Devine Immigration Written Evidence