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HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI had a note about that but I was so fixated on answering the other question from my noble friend and others that I forgot to answer the noble Baroness. She said that she was…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI was just going to go on to say that we would be working the Crown Prosecution Service with regard to the new offences in the Bill. Although I related the press release referred…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI have just outlined our policy intent. I was just going to go on to answer the question of the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. There is a need to seek prosecution where there are…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWould the Committee be content if I wrote further on this matter? Excellent. I am not quite sure where I had got to. Amendment 128A in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI will probably refer to my colleagues in the FCDO for further information on that, but I shall certainly take those points back. It is important at this stage to take into…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, the Secretary of State has discretion to waive the full capacity requirement, and the introduction of this amendment would make it a statutory requirement rather than a…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillIt is probably important to be clear here that an offence has not been committed. There is no defence to the offence. There is defence in court, and it could be established by the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillThe noble Lord talks about deportation; we generally refer to deportation in the context of criminals. No, it is not under those provisions.08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillI cannot say what countries we are in discussion with, other than confirming to my noble friend Lady Stroud that we are having some very positive discussions with France. On the…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillGoing back to the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, first, I did not disagree with his point about reciprocity but I made it clear at the time that we were of course leaving the European…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken to this group of amendments. I hope in what I am about to say that there will be at least some acknowledgment of the compassion…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I will start with Amendment 125. I agree with the need to protect those acting with good and honest intentions in bringing asylum seekers to the UK and to see that they…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I am not trying to avoid it; I am saying that that is about as far as I can go. However, I will try to outline any further detail that I can in writing to noble Lords.…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillWhat I encouraged noble Lords to come up with at Second Reading were solutions, not new routes. I have consistently said, and written to noble Lords on this, that we have a number…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I do not have the answers before me, so I will write on the questions that I have not answered, if that is okay with the noble Baroness.08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillYes. The point I am making, in response to the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, is that the defence would be to the evidential burden only and we would have to…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillRescuers have to prove to the evidential burden. In order to prosecute, we have to prove beyond reasonable doubt. In proving to the evidential burden, there is no offence…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, I thank again all noble Lords who have spoken to these amendments. I will start by addressing Amendment 120. I am grateful to the noble Lord and the Joint Committee on…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMaybe I was not being clear, but I was trying to describe the law as it currently stands. I have just repeated twice to my noble friend Lady McIntosh that, as it currently stands,…08 Feb 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillCorrect.08 Feb 2022