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HANSARDDeportation: JamaicaMy noble friend makes a good point. The Home Secretary has been in touch with the high commissioners. Of course, local—particularly Caribbean—communities are best placed to know…06 Feb 2019HANSARDDeportation: 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 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 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 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityMy noble friend will appreciate that the physical intervention in a specific place is based on both the threat and protection of the public. The measures—known as hostile vehicle…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeCertainly, there has to be a co-ordinated approach to this whole Windrush issue, as the noble Baroness said, and quality assurance is absolutely paramount given what some of these…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeMy Lords, we do not usually talk about individual cases but, of course, this case was brought up earlier in another place with my right honourable friend the Home Secretary. He…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityThe noble Lord raises an important point in the light of the various anti-Semitic incidents that have taken place recently. Ministers have agreed to fund security measures on an…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeCertainly, the Windrush task force has stood ready to help anyone who has been here since before 1988 and would like to regularise their status. It has not precluded people from…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityMy Lords, the Government provide a wide range of advice and guidance to the public about threats and how they can be mitigated. It is a matter for the owners and operators of…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityMy Lords, I think that is a bit of a low blow. It is certainly understood that any protective measures needed will have to be paid for by the authorities which commission them. If…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityThe noble Lord raises a really important point about the right to protest. I think I am known by name by some of our friends standing across the road, voicing their support for—or…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeThe noble Lord did ask me that and I apologise for not answering at the time. As he and the House will have seen, the Home Secretary took absolute ownership of this issue right…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeMy Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat the Answer to an Urgent Question asked in another place: “Mr Speaker, righting the wrongs done to the Windrush generation…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityThe noble Lord is right and I thank them again, because they provide an absolutely fantastic service to us in such a courteous way. I do not know whether the noble Lord was at the…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityI have got mine too. There should be none of this, “Do you not know who I am?”; I have never heard people say that in this House. The only reason we are ever asked is in order to…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWestminster: SecurityIt absolutely is, and it is the central plank of our parliamentary democracy.05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeThe noble Viscount should be clear about what and whom he means when he talks about midnight flights. I do not know that they take place at midnight, but the people who are set to…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeI thank the noble Viscount for his clarification. Certainly, the approach that we took post Windrush was that the task force took not a lenient but a generous view when people…05 Feb 2019HANSARDWindrush SchemeThe noble Lord asked how we can prove that everyone who is the subject of the debate today is a foreign national offender. I am reliably informed—and I have asked repeatedly—that…05 Feb 2019