Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill

My Lords, I am most grateful to the noble Baroness for her assurances, which, to some extent, repeated those that she has already given. But she went beyond them in two respects, for which I am grateful, particularly that the Children’s Commissioner would be welcome at any of these points abroad. He will no doubt want to take that up in due course. The noble Baroness reinforced what she had already said about the training of staff. It has occurred to me to wonder whether training in Calais Frethun would be in French or English. She said that anyone who did not speak English would be transferred immediately to immigration control, so that the language line would be employed. I do not think that we knew that before. If I understand the noble Baroness correctly, although persons other than the Immigration Service could arrest someone, as soon as they discover that that person cannot speak any English, they would not have the continuing power to detain which is provided for in this clause. Responsibility would have to be handed over the Immigration Service, so that the language line could be used. I am grateful to the noble Baroness for her offer of further discussions on commercial confidentiality, because I think that it is bogus to say that the code of conduct, which, as already has been said, equates with the PACE code of conduct in terms of principles, would in any way jeopardise the commercial rights of the firm concerned. The inference that I draw is that if the code was in the public domain, someone else could copy it. Surely, if that were the case, emulation between different contractors who are bidding to carry out those services would mean that higher standards would ultimately be achieved. Either that or the code of conduct is sufficiently constrained by the necessity to conform with the PACE principles. There would be no distinction between those that were drafted by different contractors providing these services. We are not asking for everything to be disclosed, only the code of conduct, which it is very reasonable to request bearing in mind the enormous importance of the code of conduct to the treatment of vulnerable adults and children. At this stage, we will not get any further with this discussion, but I look forward to conversations with the noble Baroness offline. In the mean time, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment. Amendment, by leave, withdrawn. [Amendment No. 9 not moved.] Clause 41 [Section 40: supplemental]: [Amendment No. 10 not moved.] Clause 56 [Deprivation of citizenship]: