Results 101–120 of 5783 for speaker:Mr Roy Hattersley

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: A rule that would enable an immigration official to make an objective and clearly described judgment as to whether a marriage was genuine or bogus.

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: The hon. Gentleman shows that he does not understand how the rule works. It requires an immigration officer to read the mind of an applicant. I am opposed to laws which require officials to read the minds of British citizens. There should be clearly determined rules to show whether a marriage is bogus or genuine according to accepted criteria. We shall, of course, keep parties to bogus...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: That is not happening in other countries. I will give the right hon. Gentleman an example of a rule change that I regard as absolutely essential. The Kumar judgment says that a man can be refused entry to this country because the immigration authorities doubt the genuineness of his marriage. The courts ruled that if a man showed continued devotion over a period of years, that ought to be...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: I repeat that the Home Secretary's attitude has not helped our attempts to achieve the good will, common sense and mutually agreed asylum policies that most European Community states have been able to maintain. It is possible that the Home Secretary wants the Asylum Bill to fail. If that is so, he can prevent its passage, but if it is so, let us have no more of the talk that we have heard...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: The hon. Gentleman is right to say that I should have referred to the rule rather than to the Bill. He is repeating exactly the words that he used to me on Third Reading. Before we demanded it, the provision was not in the rules. After we demanded it, it was in the rules. That is a concession. Secondly, applicants will not, as was originally intended, have the actions of others held against...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: That is exactly what I said. I conceded that the amendment had not been made, and I asked whether an amendment would be made in the House of Lords. I understand from the Under-Secretary's answer that such an amendment will not be made in the House of Lords. Most importantly, the Government have been forced by their critics and by force of circumstances totally to reverse their policy on...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: The hon. Member for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) was not here when I referred to the paper which deals with all these matters in detail. Item IV of "Summary, work programmes and conclusion" deals with each of the items that I am now discussing. I wish to make it clear to the hon. Member for Thanet, North and to others that it is our intention to reform and revise the Immigration (Carriers'...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: That is not the argument that my hon. Friends advanced to me. Will the Minister now answer the two questions that I asked? Have we agreed to universal fingerprinting as part of our obligation to Europe, and does the Minister suggest that we fingerprint children, infants and babies in arms?

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: This is becoming a strange debate, because the Under-Secretary of State persists in saying things which I can only describe as palpably untrue. It appears in the Hansard record that he regards it as necessary to fingerprint babies and infants.

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: As I said earlier, I do not believe that we have to do it simply because the rest of Europe does it. I thought that the hon. Gentleman agreed with that. If the hon. Gentleman is saying that such a policy is common European practice, he is taking the argument a stage further—in a direction which will not allow some of his hon. Friends to follow him. I wish to deal with what I regard as the...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: I want to press the Home Secretary on resources. He said that he was aware of the problem and wanted to provide assistance. It is now clear that some provisions of the Bill, by driving local authorities to use bed-and-breakfast accommodation rather than to provide housing, will turn out to be more expensive for local authorities. Does he intend to make a recommendation that overcomes the...

Asylum and Immigration ( 2 Mar 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: I am very much on the Home Secretary's side in terms of competence and what the EC is entitled to do and not entitled to do. However, I hope that he will not overstate his case. Movement between the Irish Republic and Great Britain is determined not by the Act but by such factors as the treaties governing the Community and by the Government of Ireland Act 1920. The Prevention of Terrorism...

Offending on Bail (25 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: In order to put his statement in perspective, will the Home Secretary confirm that the document prepared by his Department a month ago made clear that 82 per cent. of all offenders remanded on bail do not commit a second offence, and that the essential requirement for reforming the system is better ways of selecting those who should receive bail and those who should not? It would be helpful...

Offending on Bail (25 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: Why has the Minister of State changed his mind?

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: There were four.

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: Will the Minister give way?

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: Will the hon. and learned Gentleman give way?

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: The hon. and learned Gentleman has answered his own question. I was repeating the argument made by the chairman of the Bar Council—it was also argued in the letter from the commissioner—that there would not be sufficient convictions unless jurors and courts were convinced that the available evidence had been properly obtained. The point that the hon. and learned Gentleman has just made is...

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: I must let the hon. Gentleman into a secret. The point that he makes about a committee of the House is a simple absurdity. From time to time Ministers of the Crown, even as illustrious as the Secretary of State for the Home Department, ask their opposite numbers to discuss with them matters that they believe to be in the national interest. I am happy for the Home Secretary to make public...

Terrorism (24 Feb 1992)

Mr Roy Hattersley: Oh, no, it has not.


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