Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

The short-term holding facilities are UKBA accommodation that we currently use for the short-term detention of a person detained under the immigration Acts, so we are saying that those can now be utilised by all people in the border agency. We would all approve of the fact that the PACE codes relate to it. The officer in charge of the short-term facilities, as the case is today and has been for the past two or three years, will be the detainee custody officer. On jumping from short-term to long-term, this is only for the short-term and everyone has to go through due process thereafter. They do not shift from the short-term to the long-term; I will make absolutely certain of that. If that point is wrong, I will get back to the Committee on it, but that is as I understand it. May I get back to the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, in writing about a European directive on children, as that is quite a complex issue? The noble Baroness, Lady Miller, asked whether this provision applies to holding facilities outside the UK, such as in Sangatte. Clause 53 covers the extent of the Bill: it provides that Clauses 22 and 23 apply only in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. I hope that that answers that question.