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In all of this, there is no sign—though it is implicit in what noble Lords have said—that the Home Office has kept any eye on the goal of social cohesion. Support will apparently remain available to those in genuine need, but we have no definition of what this is. We have some examples, including where an asylum seeker has deliberately made himself destitute, or could be supported by friends and family. That will certainly need some fleshing out, both the definition of “could be” and how close the family and friends need to be. My noble friend used the term precarity in respect of the situation of clients and asylum seekers, and that is entirely right.