Reports in Australian media said about 2, 000 asylum seekers had reached Australia since the country approved plans to re-open offshore processing centres in Nauru and PNG.
Christmas Island's 1, 400 residents are outnumbered by more than 2, 700 asylum-seekers housed in a centre for boat people who have been intercepted on their way to Australia.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across increasing sports in schools, asylum seekers' right to work in the UK after six months of waiting for a decision on their application - and the proportion of deaths recorded as caused by cancer where the actual cause of death was the treatment.