Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Bill [HL]

The position as regards children abroad, as I say, is that our people are trained and taught what to look for. If they see something that they feel is wrong happening with a child, they will contact the authorities if the country that they are in is one where we are able to deal with the authorities and let them know that it is happening. In other words, the country would not be in the category of those where one would, perhaps, not want to mention it in case it ended up being worse for the family and child. They have to be countries that we have agreements with. Clearly, when it comes to something such as getting a visa, or anything that applies in this country, all these rules apply. There is a whole raft of different conditions—such as other conditions in the Children Act—that apply. We will come to them in later amendments. They cannot possibly all be applied on someone else’s territory; we would feel rather annoyed if someone in this country started handling children on UK territory in the way that they felt was right under their law. We would be upset by that. All that we are saying is that we cannot do that.