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Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

I, too, am keen to support this amendment and I raised the issues at Second Reading. A lot of points have already been identified. Clearly, to have on the other side of the border, from which various people will want to come into this country, staff who are not as well educated and trained to have proper regard for the welfare of the child—I agree entirely with my noble friend on that point—as we are all now rightly required to do, can be very dangerous. I hope, with other noble friends, that either this can be explained to our satisfaction or that the Government will go and think carefully about removing a quite small phrase. It is, however, an important phrase because all of our officials should be having regard to the welfare of the child, and all of us are pretty worried about the number of children who have entered this country. We do not know the numbers or why they are here but mostly, whether for benefit fraud or whatever, it is not for very desirable reasons.