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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)The High Court will be empowered to impose an interim serious crime prevention order if it considers it just to do so. In other words, it is not an evidential test, because the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a bit difficult to talk about specific circumstances in a generalised way. As the hon. Gentleman will perceive, there may be some material on a phone that police or…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)New clause 22 proposes an amendment to section 86(2A) of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016. However, I do not think that this proposal is either necessary or appropriate. The…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)At the moment, under Scottish law, biometrics—in this instance—must be taken in a police station. Everywhere else, they can be taken in situ. We are just bringing the situation in…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 21 provides immigration officers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and police constables in England and Wales, with the power to seize and retain…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)It has been a while since the sitting began, and it is easy to overlook that I have not been up on my feet so far. We have had an interesting debate. The amendments before us…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a pleasure to welcome you back to the Chair, Mr Stuart, for what will be a marathon session. Clause 19 provides definitions for the key expressions used in relation to the…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)The proposed powers will enable immigration officers and the police to search for, seize, retain and extract information from electronic devices, but only based on two criteria.…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I am glad that the hon. Gentleman supports the powers, but I emphasise to him again that clause 21 is very much in the context of the clauses that we have just agreed. It is a…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)Yes, and it is not for me to get into the head of the hon. Member for Stockton West. Perhaps he will talk to us about why he picked that particular number. I agree with the hon.…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 22 will provide immigration officers using the powers with the duty to pass on electronic devices to other agencies, such as the police. The clause will be used if an…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clauses 24 and 25 deal with amendments to the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, extending those powers to other authorised officers and to key definitions in the clauses.…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I will try to give the hon. Gentleman some insight. I was going to come on to this when addressing the clause itself, but it is in the Bill because we have perceived a change in…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)In general, it is not expected that parents will be criminalised, but there is not a total ban on that. It will depend on what has happened and what the circumstances were. That…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)It is important that we uphold standards and have those requirements, which is why the clauses we are debating do that. These clauses deal with the need, in an emergency…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 36 will enable the biometrics of persons detained in Scotland under schedule 8 to the Terrorism Act 2000 and schedule 3 to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Again, I will reserve my comments on the new clause until after I have heard what Members on the Opposition Front Bench have to say about it. The group entails clauses 27 to 29,…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I will wait until the hon. Member for Stockton West has spoken to his new clause before I respond to anything he says about it; I will briefly outline what clause 23 does and if…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)It is a lacuna in Scotland rather than a problem elsewhere. It is simply that, in Scotland, biometrics cannot be taken except in a police station. In his 2020 report on the…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for speaking to new clause 23. As she said, it seeks to disapply the protections afforded by the UK GDPR regulations to people who have entered illegally or…06 Mar 2025