Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration: Site Visits - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 12:39 pm on 16 March 2021.

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Photo of Lord Robathan Lord Robathan Conservative 12:39, 16 March 2021

My Lords, some years ago I stayed in Napier barracks and more recently, about four years ago, I showered and had lunch there at the start and end of a charitable bicycle ride around France. The barracks are comfortable. While they are pretty basic, they are warm and dry, the food is good and the showers work. Can my noble friend explain how it can be that these barracks have been used for many years by soldiers, who defend us and our country without complaint in the House of Lords, and yet now for people who understandably have fled poverty and violence in their own countries and have almost certainly come through a safe country—namely, France—they are deemed not to be acceptable?