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My noble friend may have a disagreement on that and may not be in favour of detention per se, but the reasons I have set out are at the discretion of the Home Secretary, who, along with me in this House, will be held accountable for them. It is important that we retain that; otherwise, we have no effective ability to ensure that people are detained, for the reasons why people occasionally need to be, under a framework that has some legal backing. Whatever our disagreements with the previous Government over the Act as a whole, the decision to retain that is to ensure that the Secretary of State retains that ability to ensure management of individuals who may be on their way out of the United Kingdom, may be a danger to others in the United Kingdom or may be awaiting further assessment. It is important that the power is retained, and I therefore urge my noble friend to withdraw the amendment, for now at least, on behalf of the noble Baroness, Lady Jones.