The Committee deliberated.

Draft Report [Asylum Removals], proposed by the Chairman, brought up and read.

Ordered, That the draft Report be read a second time, paragraph by paragraph.

Paragraphs 1 to 85 read and agreed to.

Paragraph 86 read, as follows:

We believe that, under current practice, children should only be detained prior to removal when the planned period of detention is very short or where there are reasonable grounds to suppose that the family is likely to abscond.

Amendment proposed, in line 1, after the word "that", to insert the words "in the absence of universal detention".—(Miss Ann Widdecombe.)

Question put, That the Amendment be made.

The Committee divided.

Ayes, 2    Noes, 5

Mr James Clappison  Mrs Janet Dean

Miss Ann Widdecombe  Bridget Prentice

Mr Gwyn Prosser

Bob Russell

David Winnick

Question put, That the paragraph stand part of the Report.

The Committee divided.

Ayes, 6    Noes, 1

Mr David Cameron  Miss Ann Widdecombe

Mrs Janet Dean

Bridget Prentice

Mr Gwyn Prosser

Bob Russell

David Winnick

Paragraph agreed to.

Paragraphs 87 to 138 read and agreed to.

Resolved, That the Report be the Fourth Report of the Committee to the House.

Ordered, That the Chairman do make the Report to the House.

Ordered, That the provisions of Standing Order No. 134 (Select committees (reports)) be applied to the Report.

Several Papers were ordered to be appended to the Minutes of Evidence.

Ordered, That the Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee be reported to the House.—(The Chairman.)

Several Papers were ordered to be reported to the House.

  [Adjourned till Tuesday 29 April at half-past Nine o'clock.