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HANSARDBorder 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 (Sixth sitting)Clauses 30 and 31 concern the sharing of trailer registration information. Clause 30 creates a clear discretionary power for the Transport Secretary and, in practice, the Driver…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)It is certainly a good idea to create legislation that can actually be commenced. Otherwise, we are just all having a fun time in Committee— I can see everyone agreeing with…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)The first thing to say is that the powers under the Criminal Justice and Police Act are already used by law enforcement and apply in many statutes. Therefore, all of these powers…06 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)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)Ah, the hon. Lady will speak to it.06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)My hon. Friend is exactly right. Under section 6 of the Human Rights Act, all office holders implicitly have to follow the rules of the European convention on human rights. One…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)I think, Dr Murrison, you would probably not be very pleased with me if I started to talk about existential challenges at the heart of Conservative thinking, much as I would like…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)The hon. Gentleman can be assured that everything the commander does must be compatible with our obligations under the Human Rights Act and the Council of Europe convention on…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)As I said earlier, the Border Security Commander and the Border Security Command will work within the confines of international obligations and human rights law.04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)But how on earth could asking the Border Security Commander to have regard to those things lead him or her to deal with border security? The new clause would take away the focus…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)The Bill is a framework within which the Border Security Commander operates, but it is not prescriptive because the people who drafted the Bill could not see what the priorities…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)Clauses 3 and 9, taken together, outline the functions of the Border Security Commander and the directions given to the commander by the Secretary of State. Clause 3 ensures that…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)Clause 17 provides for the offences set out in clauses 13 and 14—the supply and handling of articles for immigration crime—and clause 16—the collecting of information for…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)I thank the hon. Lady for her observations. In practice, the clause allows for prosecution where an offence was committed overseas. It may well rely on evidence sharing from an…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)I hold the hon. Gentleman in similar affection. We are pretty long in the tooth—we are the two people who are the most long in the tooth on this Bill Committee—and I look forward…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)I take my hon. Friend’s point. This clause is very much about being able to capture preparatory work for any effort to evade our immigration laws and bring people over in small…04 Mar 2025