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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to noble Lords for commencing this afternoon’s consideration and for the amendments proposed by the noble Baroness, Lady Hamwee. Before addressing the points made by…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to noble Lords for their contributions and echo the point that the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Lochiel, has just made. There is a common interest between His…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am very grateful to the noble Lord. I will let my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti speak and then respond.10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIn response to both the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and my noble friend Lady Chakrabarti, I will repeat what I said in my preamble today: the Home Office is continuing to assess…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Lord brings great experience of the Foreign Office. He will know about this better than I do; I am a Home Office person rather than a Foreign Office person. I am trying…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillLook, if we are going to talk about more people coming, can we go back to 2016? Can the noble Lord tell me how many people arrived on a small boat in 2016, compared with July…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillPolitics is about the exchange of views and ideas and the delivery of policies. I think we have reached an impasse. The noble Lord, Lord Davies, and Opposition Back-Benchers think…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I have a confession to make—and I hope that noble Lords will bear with me as I make it. As a Member of Parliament, I spent a lot of the period between 2016 and 2019…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am sorry to disturb the noble Baroness’s flow, but I want to place on record, in answer to the question raised by Members, that there are no Europol embeds in the UK. There is a…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Swire, for tabling these amendments, if only because we have been able to revisit matters from the past 17 years on the benefits or otherwise…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillPerhaps I can help the noble Lord. If he was in the building, he would have voted that particular way; otherwise, he would not have been a Northern Ireland Minister for very much…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillWith all due respect to the noble Lord, I was moving to the view that the amendment does not have merit; that is the nature of political life, as the noble Lord knows. Having…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe Government are doing a range of things. The border security Bill is one of them. We have put the £150 million and £280 million for future SRs into the Border Security Command.…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI will look in detail at the Hansard report of the contributions that have been made today and reflect on them, but my assessment is that I can give the noble Lord that assurance.…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillI have given a broad description. The police have access to terrorist databases with information and biometrics generally. I think it best not to talk, at the moment, about…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Baroness makes a very good point. Members of this House expressed strong concerns when the Bill, now an Act, was debated, particularly about the previous Government’s…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillIt is probably best if I reflect on that, because although I know who is embedded in Europol, I do not know offhand, unless I can find some inspiration in the next few seconds—I…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillMy Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for the way in which she has approached the discussion. I hope that I can convince her straight away by saying that the Government…10 Jul 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration BillThe noble Lord knows that this is a complex challenge and that the Government are trying to undertake a range of measures to address it. He will also know—we will return to this…10 Jul 2025