There are many things that we could all say, those of us who oppose this consent today, about this Bill, and many of them have been said. But I'm going to focus here particularly and speak to the issue at hand, and the issue at hand is about medical examinations and age assessments of unaccompanied minors seeking refugee asylum—children. And I think there's one message that has to be absolutely clear here today: we are talking about children. We are talking about traumatised children, not just children who've arrived and they're going to go nicely into some hideous assessment that all the medical profession who've responded to requests to respond from the Health and Social Care Committee won't validate. They said that there is no evidence to support that these medical assessments are accurate. So, we need to start there. The medical profession themselves, who have responded, say that these assessments don't have any merit.

Secondly, and we've heard it said, and more importantly, these are children. They are traumatised children and we're asked to give permission to a process to further traumatise them, a process that they won't be able to object to, because they won't have a voice in that objection. And whatever will be done to them will be pretty traumatic in itself, and it's bound to cause post-traumatic stress, and that's already alluded to here. Not to mention, of course, their mental fragility when they're actually entering the process and it being increased as a consequence of having gone through that process. So, none of it is good news.

Should they fail, of course, you will then be putting children into adult facilities, and again with no protection whatsoever, no right to appeal—all taken out of their hands. As you all know, I'm a founding member of the all-party group on trafficking and slavery. I don't think you'd have to use a huge amount of imagination to understand the implications of putting unaccompanied minors in facilities whereby they would become potential victims of trafficking and slavery. There are many, many accounts of that already happening in those facilities as we speak. And, of course, they will be separated in some cases from their families, so they equally won't be able to raise their voices on behalf of the children because somehow this Government is quite happy to throw away the rights of those children, to ignore the basic fundamental humanity that you would expect to exist when you're talking about traumatised children.

So, I'm really pleased that it seems that all the people who took evidence are saying, 'No, we will not give consent. We will not give consent to brutalise and traumatise the children who find themselves in this UK.'