Member

On our other topic of debate, asylum hotels, there was the border security Bill yesterday and there will be a lot of debate about the variety of asylum legislation. The noble Lord, Lord Carlile of Berriew, asked about the increase in the number of hotels. I was in Cabinet during Covid. In a lot of the situations involving asylum seekers, the number of determinations was stopped, if not significantly reduced, because the consequences of making a determination if somebody was found not to be eligible were that nothing could be done. In effect, we still had to make sure that people had somewhere to stay.