Police and Justice Bill

My Lords, I thank those very noble noble Lords who have stayed late into the night to debate this serious and in many respects painful issue. I thank the Minister for being so thoughtful and, in some ways, for seeing what we are all trying to say, albeit the door was not that far open. I am well aware that the LASCH’s capacity is currently limited, and I remind the Minister that the STCs are a new addition to the range of available disposals. I regret that instead of developing and investing in the quality and type of care, treatment and containment of children who seriously need to be in secure accommodation, money which has gone towards supporting and investing in STCs did not go into supporting and developing what could theoretically have been a wide range of different types of provision according to age. As I said in my speech, need as well as age is very important with children, and they are not necessarily concomitant. I also recognise that it is nearly half past ten o’clock and that it would not be sensible for me to try to push my amendment to a Division. I sincerely hope, however, that the Government will go back and think again about this issue. We must all agree that what we currently have is seriously not good enough. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. Schedule 13 [Schedule to be inserted into the Protection of Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1978]: [Amendment No. 136 not moved.] Clause 46 [Immigration and asylum enforcement functions: complaints and misconduct]: