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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Oates, for moving the amendments on behalf of himself and the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford. He will know that we had some meetings in…08 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful as ever for the discussion around Clause 43 and for the amendments tabled by His Majesty’s loyal Opposition. I will start by setting out the Government’s view on the…08 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodI hope I can assist the right reverend Prelate with some clarification on what has actually happened. First, nobody who is in the system as of 1 September will have their 56-day…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodI always find it fascinating that the Opposition continue to raise these questions with the Government, because if I wind the clock back to 2016, there were no hotels in use for…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodI repeat what I said to the right reverend Prelate: we are running the pilot until December and it will be evaluated. We have made some changes from 1 September, but not for the…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodI am grateful to the noble Baroness for her suggestion; I will certainly examine it. It is important that society as a whole embraces individuals who have come to this country…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodI am grateful for the noble Lord’s question. For individuals who have been granted asylum, under the pilot we have extended the period from 28 days to 56 days to ensure that…04 Sept 2025HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseThe noble Lord makes an extremely valuable contribution. I agree with him that we need to look not just at teaching staff but youth staff and other contacts within the church and…04 Sept 2025HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI thank the noble Baroness for her question and the work she has done in this area. She will remember that in January, the Home Secretary announced a £5 million fund for local…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodWith due respect, I thought I did try to answer the question from the noble Lord, Lord Young. Heads are shaking, but I am accountable for my answers. At the end of that 28 or…04 Sept 2025HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseMy noble friend tempts me to stray into areas that are the responsibility of the Department for Education, but the points that she has made are well made. We need to have…04 Sept 2025HANSARDRefugee Accommodation: Move-on PeriodThe Home Office monitors the impact of all its policies, especially move-on and the impact on wider communities and local authorities. We are committed to working closely with our…04 Sept 2025HANSARDGroup-based Child Sexual Exploitation and AbuseI am grateful for the questions, and the broad welcome for our measures, from both His Majesty’s loyal Opposition and the Liberal Democrat Benches. I too echo the thanks to the…04 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI have said to the Committee previously that that has to be examined on an individual basis. The examples that the noble Lord, Lord Alton, has given, where a country may be safe…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillOf the total returns, 5,179 enforced and voluntary returns were of—03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to noble Lords for what has been a very wide discussion, wider than I anticipated. I sense that at the end of the debate I probably will not have satisfied many…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am happy to examine that. We have said publicly that Article 8 is the focus for our examination, discussion and wider review. However, that does not mean—and this is the key,…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillLet me reassure the noble Lord that this is not personal. I would welcome any suggestions from across the Committee. If we reject the amendment in due course, as he is right to…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord for proposing the clause stand part notice. At the outset, I place on record for the House that 35,052 people were returned from 5 July 2024 to 4…03 Sept 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI cannot give the noble Baroness the definitive figure on small boat arrival asylum claims, but roughly 61% to 65% of asylum claims are accepted, and roughly 35% are not. I can…03 Sept 2025