UK Borders Bill

I beg to differ. I accept that there are occasional hard cases. In the case that the noble Lord is drawing out for the attention of the Committee, it may well be that the individual could have applied for Section 4 support. I do not know, because I do not know precisely his circumstances. Section 9, on which we have had a tremendously long discussion, is really only there for very hard cases; for very few cases indeed. Noble Lords are trying to create a picture of us applying this provision to thousands of people across the board. The provision itself would in future only be applied to cases already managed under the new asylum process. It is not there to be applied to the 450,000 cases that have been referenced at an earlier stage of this debate. Noble Lords should try to understand exactly how we intend to use these powers under the circumstances. Otherwise, one could develop a nightmare vision of how our system works that is quite a long way removed from the reality.