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Welsh Affairs

My hon. Friend knows that I used to speak about that subject in our Home Office team and that I felt strongly about it. It is amazing that the Government do not appear sufficiently competent to deport people, for whom there are deportation orders, at the end of their sentences. Worse, there are some categories of prisoners about whom negotiations should have taken place to ascertain what other arrangements could be made for many of them—for example, being held in prisons in their own countries. My hon. Friend therefore makes a valid point. Our police and prisons have suffered from Government incompetence.