Legislation to return to the Commons with changes that would ensure conformity with UK and other law and protect claimants
The Rwanda deportation bill is now expected to be presented to the lower chamber on Wednesday with amendments added by the House of Lords.The Rwanda deportation bill is now expected to be presented to the lower chamber on Wednesday with amendments added by the House of Lords.The plan to spend £541m to send 300 people seeking asylum to east Africa was sent back to the House of Commons after peers voted several times to add protections for claimants to the bill.
Later, peers backed by 266 votes to 227 a requirement that Rwanda cannot be treated as a safe country until an independent monitoring body has verified that protections contained in the Rwanda treaty are fully implemented and remain in place. The bill and the treaty with Rwanda, which was signed last year by James Cleverly, are meant to prevent further legal challenges to the stalled asylum scheme after the supreme court ruled that the plan was unlawful. As well as compelling judges to regard the east African country as safe, it would also give ministers the power to ignore emergency injunctions.
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