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Economic Migration (EUC Report)

My Lords, I am extremely grateful to all noble Lords and the right reverend Prelate for having taken part in this useful and interesting debate. As Chairman of the sub-committee, I shall take some time to digest all the helpful and useful points that have been made. I particularly congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Parekh, on the skill with which he had clearly trawled through the evidence to find what I suspect is by no means a unique admission of ignorance by the Chairman of the sub-committee. I thank the Minister for the entirely typical skill and charm with which she has summed up the debate, after what is for her no doubt a typically busy day in the House. We are grateful to her for having summed up. I am delighted to hear that the debate has given her pleasure that she expects to savour for a long time. I will want to study her summing-up tomorrow to discover the extent to which she has been able to deal satisfactorily with the questions that we raised in the debate, and if, as I hope and expect, the points made are positive—we also look forward to the written response of the Home Office to our second debate—I also expect to have pleasure that I shall savour for a long time. On Question, Motion agreed to.