Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts

My Lords, this has been a long and very interesting debate, and I am extremely grateful to everybody who has contributed. To the people who have said very nice things about me, thank you very much; it

I thank the noble Baroness for her good wishes; I hope she will still feel the same at the end of my speech. The issue of population change and its consequences has long been an interest of mine, beca

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Lord, Lord Tyrie, with whom I have made common cause on a number of issues—most notably, the evils of extraordinary rendition. In my four minutes, I want

My Lords, if, as the Minister says, this is such an important matter, why did it not merit a single mention in the Chancellor’s speech on the Budget?

The Minister says that he inherited a mess, but I have scars from trying to promote the idea of the Rwanda Bill, which might have provided an answer. We were excoriated as being mad, bad and dangerous

The Minister talked about the monitoring procedures. Her remarks indicated they were going to be only when the projects were in their early stages. The worry is what happens maybe three, four or five