UK Borders Bill

moved Amendment No. 43: 43: After Clause 20, insert the following new Clause— ““Immigration control: age assessment by ionising radiation No person claiming to be a child shall be subjected to ionising radiation for the purpose of age assessment in connection with immigration control.”” The noble Lord said: The amendment concerns the use of X-rays for the purpose of age determination in immigration control, a practice which was terminated by the Home Secretary, Mr William Whitelaw as he then was, on 22 February 1982. That followed the publication of a report by my office on the subject in June 1981, copies of which are available to the Committee on the Table over there—unlike some of the documents that been referred to by the Minister. It is good practice when one is referring to documents in Grand Committee to make them available so that, if Members want to look at them, they can do so during the discussion. That report found that the use of X-rays—