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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Asylum Seekers: Accommodation

"To ask His Majesty’s Government what steps they are taking to ensure the provision of appropriate accommodation for asylum seekers after their departure from the Manston immigration centre...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 15 Nov 2022
Asylum Seekers: Accommodation

"I am not sure whether the Minister has finished his reply. Does he understand that when the Home Secretary uses language about an “invasion” and the Immigration Minister writes that “‘Hotel Britain’ must end”, these are incendiary utterances that might have been calculated to inflame hard-right hatred of refugees? Is …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 07 Sep 2017
Cannabis

"My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher, has laid out the case admirably and I support her appeal to the Minister. I will simply tell the Committee about the experience of one person which illustrates how lamentable are the consequences of the present confusion in government policy and the Government’s …..."
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Speech in Grand Committee - Thu 07 Sep 2017
Cannabis

"The Minister has not made any mention of Bedrocan in her response to the debate. Does she think it reasonable that TW, in the circumstances I described, has to make these visits to Holland to collect her medication, which has been prescribed for her in Britain but which she is …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Sep 2017
Psychoactive Substances Act 2016

"To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the light of the failure of prosecutions brought under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, whether they will review the legislation...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 06 Sep 2017
Psychoactive Substances Act 2016

"My Lords, it has not taken long for the courts to expose the unworkability of part of the legislation. Faced with the very serious and pressing problem of new psychoactive substances, will the Government now see reason and accept that prohibition—the orthodoxy of the last half-century and reiterated, on a …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 May 2016
Investor Visas: Money Laundering

"My Lords, how effective does the Minister think that any checks will be as long as they are carried out by the very banks which the National Crime Agency informs us are laundering billions of dollars every year? If the anti-corruption summit, which we are told the British Virgin Islands, …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 09 May 2016
Investor Visas: Money Laundering

"The Minister said that the Government had no plans to abolish the tier 1 visa system. How does he justify that to ordinary Londoners, who see themselves priced out of the London housing market in consequence of large quantities of ill-gotten capital being imported into this country through the tier …..."
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Written Question
Anti-corruption Summit
Monday 25th April 2016

Asked by: Lord Howarth of Newport (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they intend to discuss the Tier 1 visa system at the anti-corruption summit to be held in London in May.

Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

The Anti-Corruption Summit, to be held on 12 May, will convene global leaders from government, business and civil society to discuss a wide range of issues relating to corruption. The agenda for the Summit is being finalised.

Speech in Grand Committee - Tue 09 Feb 2016
Immigration Bill

"My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Wallace, for proposing this new clause. I am a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Anti-Corruption. Like the noble Lord, I have had the opportunity to examine the statistics in the report from Transparency International UK which he …..."
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