Mr. Nick Henderson:

As we said in the statement, we are not opposed to harmonisation. We are not opposed to common rules. The common European asylum system has existed since 1999. As I said earlier, we look at this through the lens of our missions as a charity and charities supporting people seeking protection and we apply the standard of whether this improves, or at least safeguards and prevents regression of, people's rights. When we apply that test to each regulation - bearing in mind that there are more than 1,000 pages and it is a very complex piece of legislation - there is more bad here than good. The phrase "better the devil you know" comes to mind in that respect.