My Lords, like the tightening of restrictions on claims of modern slavery, which we will come to in a future group, here we have another solution in search of a problem, although here the proposed solutions are dubiously credible, as noble Lords have said.
Yet again, the Home Office statistics are misleading. In cases where the age of the child is in doubt, it transpires that the person concerned was in fact an adult in less than half of cases in 2019, and that was only in cases where those concerned were suspected of being an adult. Instances of adult asylum seekers claiming to be children in the hope of preferential treatment certainly does not justify the measures set out in Part 4; they are disproportionate to the problem they seek to solve.
I am surprised that we have got this far in the debate and that nobody has mentioned the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health—