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HANSARDNapier Barracks Asylum AccommodationMy Lords, any accommodation, be it detention or reception accommodation, will be scoped and checked to make sure that it meets service standards. I understand the point that the…14 Jun 2021HANSARDNapier Barracks Asylum AccommodationThe judgment found explicitly that the conditions of the barracks were not inhumane or degrading, as has been reported, but I concur with my noble friend that anyone who has no…14 Jun 2021HANSARDNapier Barracks Asylum AccommodationMy Lords, we believed we were taking reasonable steps to give effect to the PHE advice on the steps to be taken to make dormitory accommodation as safe as possible. It was on that…14 Jun 2021HANSARDAbolished OffencesMy noble friend will know that I have noted what he said and that we remain committed to doing all we can to right this historic wrong. I pay tribute to my noble friend and others…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresThe noble Lord will not be surprised to know that I do not agree with him. In terms of numbers, it is very difficult to prove a negative: for example, how many children will not…09 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Trials: Intercept EvidenceThe noble Baroness asks a very interesting question, which I am sure we will have debates on in the months and years to come, about the difference between the two. Fundamentally,…09 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Trials: Intercept EvidenceAs I have said to other noble Lords, the costs and risks of using intercept as evidence are disproportionate to the potential benefits, and therefore we have not proceeded to…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresMy Lords, I know that many schools have arrangements. When my children were at school there were children whose parents could not afford to send them on school trips, of which…09 Jun 2021HANSARDAbolished OffencesI thank the noble Lord, for whom I also have the highest regard; we have worked very constructively over the years. I have his Bill in my pack and look forward to reading it. He…09 Jun 2021HANSARDAbolished OffencesAs a Mancunian, I have every praise and admiration for Alan Turing, who was one of many LGBT people to change the world. We do not want people being persecuted—that is precisely…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresAgain, I put it back to the noble Baroness: what about people who cannot afford a passport and do not live in the EU? Do they not matter?09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresI think what the noble Lord is proposing is to make the rest of the world in line with what we had in the EU—in other words, to have an open borders policy with no passports. The…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresMy Lords, that issue of the UK annoying the EU could also be read both ways. But it is not a question of not welcoming people—it is putting everybody on an equal footing going…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresI have much respect for my noble friend, but one could flip that the other way and say of the long-standing issue of children outside the EU: have we made them feel unwelcome for…09 Jun 2021HANSARDAbolished OffencesMy Lords, the Government are committed to enabling men with historical convictions for decriminalised homosexual conduct to apply to have their convictions disregarded. We are…09 Jun 2021HANSARDCriminal Trials: Intercept EvidenceMy Lords, I first apologise to the Lord Speaker because I stood while he was standing—we are all grappling with masks and other things at the moment. We continue to assess whether…09 Jun 2021HANSARDAbolished OffencesMy Lords, I wish it were that simple. I want to acknowledge what the noble Lord has said: not only did men post-1967 face equal difficulties and persecutions for their sexuality…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresI reiterate that we will not be reconsidering, but I do not agree with that assertion that thousands of children will not be visiting. What about the children from the rest of the…09 Jun 2021HANSARDPassport and Visa MeasuresIt is not a question of forbidding people to come to this country, nor one of not welcoming children from all over the world, but it is a situation where the EU and the rest of…09 Jun 2021HANSARDImmigration (Collection, Use and Retention of Biometric Information and Related Amendments) Regulations 2021That the draft Order and Regulations laid before the House on 27 and 29 April be approved. Relevant documents: 1st Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee.…09 Jun 2021