Member

With regard to my drafting, I am sure that other noble Lords have experienced this: on the day when you are about to debate something that you drafted a few days ago, you think, “I could have done that better” —I say that to pre-empt critics. We are not going to divide on the amendment anyway, but I want the Minister’s comments on the position of asylum seekers, which is, frankly, precarious in many ways, especially given the limitations of the reasonable excuse defence that we debated in Committee, which pretty much amounts to proving that you are not a criminal.