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HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaI am afraid that I cannot answer the noble Baroness’s exact question, but I will find out what proportion of BAME staff work in the Home Office and let her know that.06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaThe noble Lord is right to make this point. When the Home Secretary first took up his post, he made it a central priority that that culture of a hostile environment—which had…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaIt is actually a sentence of more than 12 months, but certainly Article 8 considerations are taken into consideration before someone is deported. The provision exists under the UK…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, the noble Baroness will understand that I will not comment on an individual case. She is absolutely right that deportations go on all the time. Although this flight has…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaWe could have a debate about this, but I understand that the phrase was actually coined by Alan Johnson, but I shall not start on party-political exchanges because, the phrase…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, there was a very good example of petty party points in the other place yesterday. It is not that the Home Secretary does not agree with the law; the Home Secretary is…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, I have to say that it was under a Labour Government that the UK Borders Act 2007 was brought in. A deportation order must be made in respect of a foreign criminal…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaI have not misled the House, nor has the Home Secretary broken the law. I thought I had made clear in my original Answer that the original decision to remove an individual is not…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy Lords, it would not be appropriate to comment on individual cases, particularly those subject to ongoing legal proceedings. It may be helpful to know that a number of factors…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsWhen I wrote to the noble Lord saying that we could not do that, it was simply because the data was not available to disaggregate, but I will look at his Written Question again…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsNo, my Lords, we are not.06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsThe noble Lord is correct about the high percentage of Iranians. His second point is right too, and that is what we are trying to achieve.06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsMy Lords, an awful lot of work is going on to stop the movement of people across the water—recently it has been in the channel, where the waters are very dangerous indeed. The…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsMy Lords, the nature of the event was such that the two cutters to which the noble Lord, Lord West of Spithead, referred were undergoing maintenance at the time. Yes, there has…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsMy Lords, when I saw the article in the Sunday Times , I realised it was wrong. The noble Lord is absolutely right to state that £22 million was committed. It still is committed;…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsThe noble Lord is absolutely right to point out that as we approach Brexit we should be mindful of some of the events that might happen around it. We will shortly have a director…06 Feb 2019HANSARDMigrant Crossings: Naval AssetsMy Lords, the deployment of the Royal Navy vessel is an interim measure while the two Border Force cutters currently redeployed from overseas make their way back to UK waters. To…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaThe noble Lord will know from his experience that the person who sets the culture in an organisation is the leadership, and I think the Home Secretary made it abundantly clear…06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons Bill06 Feb 2019HANSARDOffensive Weapons BillMy Lords, the new clauses to be inserted into the Bill by Amendments 73A to 73U introduce knife crime prevention orders. These new civil preventative orders will provide the…06 Feb 2019