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Also, I urge the Government, if they resist legislative amendment to the status quo, to consider how future Governments might behave and whether they might share in the Government’s commitment continuously to review safety. If future Governments wish to act as if unsafe states are safe because they were added to a list once upon a time, we must be able to have a proper debate in this House. I need not remind noble Lords of the tortuous fiction that followed Rwanda being added to a list of safe states. No state should be legislated as perpetually safe. I know that this Government recognise that fact. Therefore, in Section 59 it is only logical for there to be a clear safety valve, a reviewing mechanism, to avoid repetition of the idea of a state once designated as safe being for ever deemed safe.