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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

The amendment is intended to probe what facilities and services will be made available to any person who is empowered to exercise immigration, asylum, nationality or customs functions. The real question is: are the existing facilities adequate? Many small ports and airports may well not have adequate facilities to adapt to housing facilities with multiple functions. Will there be an impact on running costs? Will facilities at the smallest entry points be reinforced? My party has long said, and the shadow Home Secretary, Chris Grayling, said shortly after 9/11, that the weak link in our border defences is at those small ports. Will the use of existing facilities be enough to allow the Government to make good their commitment, of which the Bill apparently forms a vital part, fully to protect our borders? I beg to move.