Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [Lords]

We look forward to hearing the proposals. My final point relates to human trafficking, which has been raised by the hon. Member for Ashford and others. The Bill deals with two aspects of it. When the Home Secretary appeared before the Select Committee today, he undertook to examine the very serious allegations made in The Times and The Guardian today that when people were interviewed, they stated that they had only entered this country because of the connivance—their word was "corruption"—among certain officers in the UK Border Agency. I have seen no evidence to support those serious allegations, other than the Home Office's own report. Let me say to the Minister that we accepted the Home Secretary's undertaking, and we hope that those allegations will be looked into, because this is a serious matter. We know that the Government want to make a priority of ending human trafficking, and we know that they want to do all that they can to work with other countries to stop that evil crime. It is a modern-day example of slavery. We welcome the prospect of an investigation by the Home Secretary, but we also hope that the Minister will examine the funding regime. He cannot implement his proposals unless he gives the resources that are needed to organisations such as the Metropolitan police.