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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

My Lords, I welcome these amendments and support them. They achieve the Government’s original aim of a one-stop appeal process. They also meet the concerns we on these Benches expressed in Grand Committee; that the appeal should be in-country and that the people’s leave should be preserved on the same terms and conditions until that appeal is finally determined. We thus avoid the unacceptable result of the original drafting of Clause 1 whereby people would automatically have been turned into overstayers with all the damaging consequences that could have had. We also avoid the necessity for the artificiality of the Clause 13 situation that was introduced in another place as a rather list-ditch attempt to save the Clause 1 procedure. So, I am certainly grateful to the noble Baroness for the work she has done between Grand Committee and Report stage. The Government have fully met the commitments the noble Baroness gave in Grand Committee. On that more pleasant note, I am not sure whether others have had the opportunity to do so since last Wednesday, but perhaps I may congratulate her on being elected Peer of the Year by Channel 4 and the Hansard Society.