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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

I wish to underline what my noble friend said about the juxtaposed controls. That is particularly important, bearing in mind the powers of officials to detain any person in the juxtaposed controls, the Channel ports, where people, including children, may be questioned and detained for a certain length of time. The juxtaposed controls are so important because oversight of them is less intense. I think I am right in saying that the chief inspector has once been to look at them. They do not have the same intense scrutiny by the voluntary agencies that places of detention in the United Kingdom enjoy. The risks to a child of being ill treated in such a place, where a lot of the staff contractors employed by the Secretary of State are not direct UKBA officials, must be accentuated. I am really puzzled as to why it was thought necessary to confine this obligation to the United Kingdom. I should be grateful if the Minister would explain how the UK Border Agency code of practice for keeping children safe from harm applies in the juxtaposed controls as it does in the United Kingdom.