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HANSARDUK Resettlement Scheme 2025We are guided by the requests that come to the United Kingdom from the UNHCR, and we will consider whatever requests it wishes to bring forward for the United Kingdom. My noble…27 Mar 2025HANSARDUK Resettlement Scheme 2025The noble Lord makes his point again. We have set out our position on overseas aid through, and prior to, the Statement yesterday. We are setting out our position in relation to…27 Mar 2025HANSARDUK Resettlement Scheme 2025The noble Lord makes a very important point. He will be aware that, three and a half years ago, for example, nobody would have suggested that we would have the number of Ukrainian…27 Mar 2025HANSARDUK Resettlement Scheme 2025Yes, I will examine where we are post that meeting that we had with the noble Earl, and I will respond to him as a matter of some urgency.27 Mar 2025HANSARDUK Resettlement Scheme 2025The UK Government continue to discuss on a yearly basis with the UNHCR what the requirements and pressures are. As the noble Lord will know, both the previous Government and this…27 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI am grateful to my noble friend. My right honourable friend the Home Secretary has met her French, Belgian and Dutch counterparts and is looking at a group which we have named,…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsThe noble Lord makes an extremely valid point. I know he has a long-standing interest in safeguarding and that he has raised previously with me and others the children who went…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsThe real opportunity we are trying to take is to reduce the asylum backlog in the first place. If people claim asylum on arrival in the United Kingdom, from whatever source, we…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI am grateful to my noble friend. We intend to uphold and keep to our international obligations.26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsAs with those of the noble Lord, Lord Laming, I take on board the points that the right reverend Prelate makes. It is important that we ensure that children who arrive here…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsI am grateful to the noble Lord. I just remind him that, in 2016, there were no hotels in use; in 2023, there were 400. We have a manifesto commitment to end the use of hotels.…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsThe noble Lord raises an interesting question. I will, as ever, examine that in detail and get back to him with a specific figure, which I do not have in front of me. The…26 Mar 2025HANSARDAsylum Hotels and Illegal Channel CrossingsIf the noble Lord visits the Library and asks which benefits migrants receive, he will find that the Government have a responsibility to pay certain amounts of resource for upkeep…26 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationI am grateful to the noble Lord. The figures from NHS England, which I have before me, show that between April 2024 to June 2024, 985 new cases of women and girls with FGM were…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationI am grateful to the noble Lord. The study we have commissioned is looking at what needs to be done to collect further data. We are looking at establishing a pilot scheme to look…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationThe noble Baroness is absolutely right. One of the key things we need to do is ensure that those people who perpetrate FGM and encourage others to do so are held to account. That…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationI am grateful to the noble Lord. First of all, this is a crime. As it is a crime, if it is reported it will be acted on, and if evidence is collected the CPS will prosecute. We…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationI am grateful to the noble Baroness for that question. The specific responsibilities of the National Health Service are wider than my brief on the issues before us today, but it…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationI am grateful to the noble Lord, who has a long history of tackling this issue in legislation and bringing it before the House. He deserves credit for the work he has done to…25 Mar 2025HANSARDFemale Genital MutilationFemale genital mutilation is an abhorrent crime. The Home Office concluded a feasibility study in 2024 to examine how to produce robust prevalence estimates for FGM; we are now…25 Mar 2025