---

Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

The Minister seems to have placed considerable emphasis on the points-based system to remove the subjective decision-making process. I have a lot of sympathy with her, but that approach is not necessarily borne out, on the basis of a number of cases that I have referred to the Home Office. I particularly mean cases from the highly skilled migrant workers programme—ones of which I have personal knowledge of circumstances of individuals abroad and the decision that the Home Office has taken. When those cases have been reviewed, it has been found that the decision in the first instance was wrong. The worst part of all is the fact that, when you want to review the decision, it has cost a hell of a lot of money for an individual to be able to do that at a British post abroad. I sympathise with the Minister and the objective that she needs to establish in the process, but she will soon find that there will be enough complaints on the points system as well. I give her advance notice that this is the clause on which I would be delighted to have a sight of the Labour manifesto, to see how it impinges on the measure. That is something to which we will come back on Report, to see what we can do on the clause.