Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank the Minister very much for her statement today. There is a great deal to be welcomed both in the actual plan and in the statement. I'd like to apologise to the Minister and to the Chamber for the fact that I've stepped in at the last minute to respond to this statement because my colleague Leanne Wood has had to go home due to climatic conditions beyond her control. So, if I'm asking questions of the Minister that she's already explored—that the Deputy Minister has already explored—separately with Leanne Wood, I hope that she will forgive me and simply tell me to go and ask Leanne. [Laughter.]

First of all, I think, in all seriousness, we have to acknowledge that there are some serious barriers remaining to creating the nation of sanctuary that we all aspire to, I hope, in this Chamber—or most of us at least. These barriers stem from the fact that the UK has had a deeply dysfunctional public debate on migration, including on immigration and asylum, for many, many years. I would slightly disagree with the Minister here, because this is not just in recent years. To my knowledge, this goes back 20 years at least. I can think of some very unhelpful columns written in The Sun newspaper by the then Cabinet Minister David Blunkett, for example, raising questions about civil rights lawyers and the decision to restrict the civil liberties of asylum seekers.