UK Borders Bill

I, too, find myself not quite as sympathetic towards the Minister’s answers as the noble Baroness, Lady Anelay. The noble Earl, Lord Listowel, has every right to press the points that he made at the start of his intervention concerning the practical effect of these proposals on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. Will they be more inclined to co-operate with the arrangements being made by the BIA, knowing, as the noble Lord, Lord Judd, has just pointed out, that under the changes to be made they will be liable to deportation immediately on their 18th birthday? Therefore, the reporting requirements to be imposed under this clause are specifically designed, as the noble Lord said, to facilitate the removal when the time comes. They will know that just as well as everyone else.