UK Borders Bill

I ought to thank the noble Lord for that, really. I am sure it is very helpful. He has raised a number of additional questions. I am not in a position to provide him with chapter and verse today. I shall ask my officials to go away and compile something comprehensive. In the past I think I have seen some of the data broken down in the way that he wishes, for the purposes of briefing for Oral PQs, so we should be able to provide some of that. We ought to be able to provide some sort of feedback through the LGA from local authorities about the desirability or not of specialist local authorities. Some authorities are undoubtedly more expert in dealing with some of these issues than others, particularly those that have child welfare responsibilities close to the major airports. We need to think carefully about that issue, and I appreciate the sensitivity of it. I will do my best on that. I cannot the give the noble Lord the answers he wants today—it would be unreasonable to expect me to do so—but I am grateful to him.