Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for the great care and attention that she has taken in addressing what is for us a serious issue. I am certainly grateful to all those who have spoken. The noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, was right in the way she summarised what I was trying to do, which was to reflect the deep concern about how a review system might be robust enough to deal with future problems when we do not have any appeals. Equally, the Minister was right when she described my amendments as something of a mix and match, in that they are trying to look for alternatives as solutions and, through the back door, to keep an appeals system without calling it an appeal. That is why they were probing amendments; I certainly was not putting them forward as the ultimate solution. The noble Baroness, Lady Warwick, was right in that we are trying to avoid a situation in which people feel that they have to go through judicial review, because that does not help anyone. It does not help the person involved in the application and it certainly does not help the Government or the taxpayer. The Minister is trying to avoid that, too. I know that there is good will, but we are all still concerned about how the system will operate. The Minister was kind enough to offer to write to the noble Lord, Lord Avebury, with regard to some of the details about how the statistical analysis would be carried out. I would be grateful if I might be copied in on that. She referred to the number randomly chosen as cases to be tested being between 3,000 and a maximum of 4,000, and the noble Lord asked what that would be as a percentage of the total number of cases, how the percentages work out, and what the future projections about cases that might need to be tested were. I was looking at it in a slightly different way—oh! We are going to have more from the noble Lord, Lord Dholakia, in a moment. My question was going to be, ““How would the pool be constructed across which the random selection would be made?””. I know that random means random, but you need to know where your pool starts. For example, will the random selection cover all the points round the world where people make applications, or does one take points of application by each country and have a random selection across that? To someone like me, the attraction of the latter course would be that one could track problems in one area; I have mentioned Chennai in the past as being a concern that the Immigration Advisory Service has presented to me. One can also use those random samples to judge against all the other countries as well. I notice that the noble Baroness is nodding; I shall not ask for a full response now, but if she could take that into account in the letter that she writes, I would be grateful.