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Peers now move on to debate an amendment from Labour's Baroness Lister of Burtersett.

The amendment would require ministers to report to both Houses of Parliament whenever new or amended EU law in the area of family-friendly employment rights, gender equality and work-life balance for parents and carers would have amended provisions or definitions in domestic law had the UK remained a member of the EU.

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Peers vote 316 to 245 for crossbencher Lord Pannick's amendment, which aims to ensure that the majority of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is carried over to form part of domestic law.

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Crossbencher Lord Pannick insists his amendment maintains the sovereignty of Parliament, and moves it to a vote.

His amendment aims to ensure that the majority of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is carried over to form part of domestic law.

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Liberal Democrat Tom Brake says the cases "are a direct consequence" of the hostile environment policy, which started with "go home vans" and ended with "forced deportations of UK citizens".

Ms Rudd says the UK government is not going to be "dismantling" the systems in place to tackle illegal immigration.

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Home Affairs Committee Chair Yvette Cooper says "of course the Home Office should be waiving citizenship fees" and providing support for this generation. She says many people came as children and "are still having their legal rights denied".

She says Ms Rudd is not addressing the "wider problems", such as too many people being denied citizenship and 50% of those cases being overturned on appeal "because the Home Office is getting things wrong".

She says there is a real "culture of disbelief" in the Home Office. She asks Ms Rudd to scrap the net migration target as her committee has advised.

Ms Rudd says the "vast majority of the children" born here to Windrush migrants will have birth certificates, and she urges the others to contact the Home Office helpline.

She says she will "resist...at the moment" the urge to talk about scrapping net migration figures. There is a need to make a careful distinction between "legal and illegal", she adds.

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Ministry of Justice spokesman Lord Keen of Elie asks peers to reject the amendment before them.

He points out that the charter only applies when directly implementing EU law, and "after Brexit we will not be a member state and will not be directly implementing law".

While the UK will continue to have EU retained law, it will "diminish over time and diverge", he says.

Continuing the application of a foreign body of law would be "the greatest constitutional outrage since 1689", he adds to some disquiet.

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The SNP's home affairs spokesperson Joanna Cherry says these "urgent measures are desperate firefighting" rather than dealing with the causes of the problems.

She says the problems have emerged from the "ludicrous immigration targets" and hostile environment policy set up by the previous Home Secretary, Theresa May.

The Director of the CBI has called for an immigration policy which puts people first, not number, she says.

Ms Rudd replies that the UK must "make the important distinction between what is legal and what is illegal".

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Responding for Labour to the debate on preserving the bulk of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, external, Lord Goldsmith says he's received "more correspondence about the charter than any other aspect" of the bill.

He acknowledges the UK has played "an important and proud part in development of human rights" protections.

But he goes on to say the European Convention on Human Rights is "limited to civil and political rights" whereas the charter enshrines "more modern economic rights which mean a great deal to people in this country".

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Labour's David Lammy says that everybody in the Caribbean is there "because Britain and other European countries brought them from Africa from the Caribbean".

He says that he and his parents are in the UK "because my parents were born under the British Empire".

He says that West Indian Caribbeans have given "so much", he welcomes what has been said, but many from other countries such as Ghana, Uganda and Pakistan were born under Empire, but have been here for generations and do not have permanent status in the UK.

"If the Commonwealth is to mean anything it is to mean that, Common, Wealth," he says.

Ms Rudd thanks him for the work he has done on this case. She says she understands the citizenship point, and the distinction between the legal status and "the way people understand their neighbours".

The measures she is taking will affect "all citizens from the Commonwealth as well", she adds.

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd says the respect for this group of people on both sides of the House is "undimmed".

"This is a group of people who should have had their legal status formally given to them a long time ago," she says, some of these cases happened before 2010, she adds, "this is not something that just happened overnight".

The steps she is taking should have been rectified a long time ago, she finishes.

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Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott says that many people believe that the Windrush situation is one of the biggest "scandals" that have engulfed the Home Office for some time.

She says that "she [the home secretary] is behaving as if it is a shock to her that officials are implementing regulations in the way she intended".

The problems for the Windrush generation was "foreseeable" and was "foreseen", she adds. The 2014 Immigration Act removed the protections for these people, she says, and her, David Lammy and Jeremy Corbyn warned at the time of the consequences of that law.

"These people were separated from family and friends in breach of their human rights," she adds.

"Member after member has written to the Home Office trying to draw attention to these cases," she says.

She says that the home secretary should consider restoring the rights and protections afforded for Commonwealth Citizens, which were removed under the 2014 Act.

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Crossbencher and retired judge Lord Judge tells peers: "I rarely disagree with Lord Pannick, because on every occasion I have been asked to judge a case he's argued I have found against him, and on every case when he has appealed against it he has succeeded."

He goes on to make the point that if the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights had been in force, Tony Blair's government would not have been able to remove the double jeopardy rule which allowed two of Stephen Lawrence's killers to be tried and convicted.

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Amber Rudd says "the state has let these people down" to cries of "you have let people down" from the Opposition benches.

In terms of compensation, she says "where people have suffered loss", there will be compensation available.

The decisions for compensation will be led by an independent person, she adds.

"None of this can undo the pain, already endured, but I hope it demonstrates the government's commitment to put these wrongs right going forward," she adds.

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd says that some of the Windrush generation are "British in all but legal status," and "this should never have been allowed to happen".

She says she is "urgently committed to resolving the situation with urgency and purpose".

She says that the Immigration Act 1973 allowed all those who had arrived before then settled status in the UK. Since the 1980s, successive governments have introduced checks on NHS treatments and employers and measures on access to benefits, she says.

She says she is "personally committed to tackling illegal migration" because of the effects it has on "the most vulnerable in our society".

She says that attempts to crack down on illegal immigration and not issuing papers to those from the Windrush generation by successive governments has led to the current situation.

She says she will waive the citizenship fee for those from the Windrush generation, and the requirement for those from the Windrush generation to take a life in the UK test.

The government has successfully resolved nine cases so far, and made 84 appointments to produce documents, she adds.

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Home Secretary Amber Rudd is giving a statement to update the House on Windrush migrants to the UK.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been reports that certain sections of British society were being asked to produce papers to prove their nationality and place of birth to the UK Home Office. Among the people affected were those of the Windrush generation, many of whom do not have papers, as they thought they would never need them.

It has since emerged that the UK Border Agency started destroying the records relating to these cases in 2010; the decision was previously made by UKBA in 2009.

Yesterday, Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn said that the Prime Minister ignored immigration policy warnings.

You can read more about the story on the BBC News website.