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HANSARDIllegal Migration BillClearly there are other provisions in relation to the standards of detention in the detained estate in relation to children. In the event that they are not detained, the usual…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that I do not have those statistics to hand, but I can write—05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that I disagree. The Home Office is not getting it wrong. As I already set out in my remarks, the numbers of people claiming to have been modern slaves in this…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillForgive me; I intended to address the noble Lord’s point in relation to that. Obviously, the provisions in Clause 4 make specific reference to the power to remove children, which…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe provisions of the Bill in relation to that are a little involved, and I will write to the noble Lord. Amendment 23 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Dubs, also deals with…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is not the Home Office abusing itself—to use the noble Lord’s phrase. The reality is that it is the large number of claims made by people advised to make claims, often at the…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillMy Lords, Clause 4 provides that if a person meets any of the four conditions set out in Clause 2, regardless of any claim made by an individual, including a protection claim, a…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillObviously, as these provisions are not in force, there is no evidence of the impact of these measures. The noble Lord appears to require me to look into a crystal ball. We can…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is a fairly standard rhetorical tool to ask where the evidence is but in this kind of field we have to operate looking forwards as to what might happen as a consequence of…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe noble Baroness is always a powerful advocate but, in this instance, these provisions are already clear. As I have said, and for the reasons that I have explained, there is no…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs the noble Lord knows, that is not something that I would have to hand in the course of the discussion of this amendment, but I will of course look into it.05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI must apologise to the noble Lord for not addressing that point in my remarks; I did mean to do so. It is a topic that the House has canvassed in Oral Questions on a number of…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI know that the noble Lord and I do not agree, but the international law position is that children, and indeed asylum seekers, cannot be selective about where they wish to seek…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillIt is the opinion of the department that a person would not pay a people smuggler to cross the channel if they were going to be detained and removed. It stands to reason, whatever…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI think I have taken enough interventions.05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI am afraid that I must disagree with the noble Lord. The point about the Bill is that we know that deterrence has effect, and we have seen that, as the Prime Minister announced…05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillOf course, I hear what my noble friend says.05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillAs I say, I am afraid the impact assessment will be published in due course.05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillI can do no better than say that the impact assessment will be published in due course.05 Jun 2023HANSARDIllegal Migration BillThe noble Baroness will have heard the comments from the Lord Privy Seal.05 Jun 2023