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Asylum: UK-Rwanda Agreement Lord Goldsmith moved that this House resolves, in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, that His Majesty’s Government should not ratify the UK-Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership until the protections it provides have been fully implemented, since Parliament is being asked to make a judgement, based on the Agreement, about whether Rwanda is safe. The motion was agreed to (see division).

Monday 22 January 2024 between 19:25 and 19:38

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Lord Goldsmith to move that this House resolves, in accordance with section 20 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, that His Majesty’s Government should not ratify the UK-Rwanda Agreement on an Asylum Partnership until the protections it provides have been fully implemented, since Parliament is being asked to make a judgement, based on the Agreement, about whether Rwanda is safe Special attention drawn by the International Agreements Committee, 4th Report
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Lord Goldsmith
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