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Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for indicating that. I will try to address all the concerns that have been raised and to be as helpful as I hope I was in the previous group. I will begin with Amendments Nos. 53 and 54, which are tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Dholakia. We seek to ensure that those seeking asylum are properly documented as soon as possible. There are four main reasons why we want to do that. First, to check quickly whether there has been any other claim for asylum in the UK and if so under which identity, if that was an important issue. Secondly, to more quickly identify whether there has been a claim for asylum elsewhere in the European Union and whether therefore the claim may be the responsibility of another member state. Thirdly, we hope that a reduced notice period would enable asylum seekers to be documented more quickly and therefore their applications to be processed faster—that is as much a benefit to the asylum seeker.