I am pleased to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Hollobone. Given your duties as Chair you will not be able to say so, but I know that you also feel strongly about the issue, which affects your constituents in Kettering. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich (Tom Hunt) for raising the matter, and to my hon. Friend the Member for Peterborough (Paul Bristow) for supporting him. The issue clearly concerns many Members across the House and millions of people across the country. Resolving it is a first-order priority for the Government. The ongoing legal action means it is difficult for me to comment on the specific case of the hotel in Ipswich, but I will speak about it in more general terms, and about the wider issues raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Ipswich. Since we came into office, the initial task for me and my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary has been to resolve the very urgent situation that we found in Manston in Kent, where a large number of migrants who crossed the channel illegally in small boats were being accommodated in a temporary processing facility that was meant for a smaller number of individuals. That was not within the control of the Government. It was the result of thousands of people choosing to make that perilous journey—over 40,000 this year alone, and rising. We had to ensure that the site was operating legally and decently. As a result, we had to procure further hotels and other types of accommodation across the country at some pace. I am pleased to say that that hard work is bearing fruit, and the situation at Manston has significantly improved. The number of people being accommodated there is now back down to the level for which it was designed. That leads to the second priority, which is to stabilise the situation more broadly, and ensure that we procure hotels in a sensible, common-sense way. We need to ensure hotels are chosen against sensible, objective criteria. Those criteria might mean ensuring towns such as Ipswich can continue to carry out their day-to-day business, and ensuring tourists can be accommodated and that business and leisure travellers can find hotel accommodation in the centre. They will include ensuring we take into account safeguarding concerns, for example by not choosing hotels that are next to children's homes, schools or places where young people congregate. The criteria will certainly include taking into account community cohesion and the likelihood of disruption. Once we have stabilised the present situation, the third strand of our strategy is to exit from hotels altogether. Accommodating thousands of individuals in hotels costs the UK over £2 billion a year. We need to ensure we move away from that as swiftly as possible through fairer dispersal across the country and looking for other sites providing better value for money for the taxpayer, which might mean more simple forms of accommodation. My hon. Friend raises two important points. First, we are very concerned that a large number of individuals, certainly all those coming across in small boats, have transited through multiple safe countries before choosing to make the crossing to the UK. We do not want to be a country that attracts asylum shoppers. The second point my hon. Friend raises is that the UK's asylum system grants asylum to a higher proportion of applicants than some comparable countries, such as France and Germany. My hon. Friend was right to say that his constituents in Ipswich broadly support an approach where individuals fleeing genuine persecution find refuge through safe and legal routes. The most striking issue is the individuals coming from demonstrably safe countries. Today, about 30% of the individuals crossing the channel have come from Albania. That is a first-order priority for the Home Secretary and I to address because it cannot be right that the UK provides safety and support for those individuals—mostly young men who are healthy and sufficiently prosperous to pay people traffickers. The longer-term trajectory obviously has to be moving away from tackling merely the symptoms of the problem—the processing of applications and the accommodation of individuals in expensive hotels—to tackling the root cause itself. Another element will be ensuring deterrence is suffused through our approach so that we do not become a magnet for illegal migrants. We need the UK to be a country that supports those in genuine need, but we must not create a framework that is significantly more attractive than those of our EU neighbours. That will also require work on the diplomatic front and tougher action at home on employers who illegally employ migrants who do not have the right to work here. On all those fronts, the Home Secretary and I are absolutely committed to tackling this issue.