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HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)The interesting thing is that my right hon. Friend’s experience in Yorkshire accords with the experience that I think the local authorities in Northamptonshire, where I am proud…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Seventh sitting)In response to the specifics that the hon. Member is raising on Afghanistan, I would make the point that returns to Afghanistan have been ceased, given the current circumstances,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Seventh sitting)I have not accepted the intervention. I would like to finish the point that I was making. We are very clear that we do not return people to countries where their return would put…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Seventh sitting)Let me just make this point, because I am conscious of the comparisons that the hon. Member sought to draw to the 1930s. We are, again, very clear—I say this for the record—that…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Seventh sitting)I reassure the Committee that amendment 96, which seeks to ensure that only asylum claims made after commencement are considered under clause 10, is not needed. For many good…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)The hon. Gentleman will get a very nice long letter.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I respectfully say to the hon. Lady that there are routes in place that people can avail themselves of in order to seek sanctuary in this country.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)First, I will deal with the two amendments that we have debated. Amendment 87 seeks to make implementation of the differentiated asylum system contingent on issuing a report on…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I would like to confirm that that is not relevant, as we are not proposing to accommodate anyone under section 17.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the hon. Gentleman for intervening again. I will come on to his point substantively when I speak to clause stand part. Meanwhile, I invite the Opposition Members to…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I am.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)That is precisely the point that I wanted to focus on before concluding deliberation of the clause. Views have been expressed about differentiation in the way that we are…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)One thing that occurred to me throughout the debate was why any Member of this House would feel that it was necessary for anyone to get into a small boat on the French coastline…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I am afraid that I just do not accept that characterisation. As I have said on several occasions in Committee, we continue to resettle genuine refugees directly from regions of…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)We have now debated that with some regularity and in some detail. I do not intend to recover that ground, but of course we continue to offer family reunion, which has seen a…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I have a meeting coming up with him in which I fully suspect we will talk about these measures.21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I hope I can provide the hon. Gentleman with some clarification at this early juncture. We have no intention to accommodate children in accommodation centres. More broadly,…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)May I repeat the point that I made earlier about the policy approach that we intend to adopt in accommodation centres, which is that children will not be accommodated in them?21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I might be able to help the hon. Gentleman. The accommodation centres that we are proposing are not detention centres. Individuals can leave the centres at any time—they may have…21 Oct 2021HANSARDNationality and Borders Bill (Eighth sitting)I am talking very specifically about accommodation centres in relation to the clause. If the hon. Lady writes to me with the specifics of the mother and baby unit in her local…21 Oct 2021