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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)The clauses seem broadly reasonable, but we have a few questions on which I would appreciate some clarification from the Minister. Clause 43 creates two new offences: the…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)We are essentially supportive of clause 42, which among other things allows a person employed by a contractor in a short-term holding facility to be an authorised person to take…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)May I ask for a response from the Minister to my question?11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)Clause 41 confirms that the Home Office may detain someone subject to deportation from the point at which the Home Office serves the notification that deportation is being…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)As the Minister has outlined, clause 40 inserts schedule 1 into the Bill. That provides that the Immigration Services Commissioner is not to hold office for a term exceeding five…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Eighth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair this afternoon, Dame Siobhain, as it was yesterday afternoon. It is good to see you two days in a row. The clause, as the Minister…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)But they do not. There will always be people who come to this country illegally from dangerous places. They are human beings responding to obvious incentives. Could the Minister…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)As we have heard, people who have come here illegally are not voluntarily leaving the country. Most of the voluntary returns are overstayers or people who have not come here on…11 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Seventh sitting)These are difficult problems and challenging questions. Practically every country in the western world is struggling with this and, with the notable exception of Australia,…11 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionIt is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair this afternoon, Dame Siobhain. I am grateful to the Petitions Committee and the well over 200,000 members of the public who have…10 Mar 2025HANSARDLegal and Illegal Migration: SuspensionIt is important to say, as my right hon. Friend’s intervention reflects, that we absolutely can have a multi-ethnic society, but that it is fundamental that we are one country and…10 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 36, as the Minister has laid out, extends biometrics powers to ports in Scotland. As we understand it, immigration enforcement already has the power to take biometrics from…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman would like to share with the Committee whether under the Dublin agreement we were net recipients of migrants or removed more than we received?06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fifth sitting)Will the hon. Gentleman give way?06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)rose —06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)We welcome the powers in these clauses to share HMRC data. Border Force is responsible for clearing both people and goods at the UK border. There is international precedent for…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 30 provides a power for the Secretary of State for Transport to supply trailer registration information to the Secretary of State for the Home Department for immigration…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)I take the Minister’s points about practicality, but in situations where new clause 23 created additional complexity, the Home Office would retain the option to adhere to the GDPR…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 34 provides a power for an authorised person to take biometric information when the Government are in the process of facilitating their exit from a state or territory. The…06 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Sixth sitting)Clause 32 makes general provision about the powers of disclosure in clauses 30 and 31. Subsection (2), as the Minister laid out, clarifies that nothing in clauses 27 to 31…06 Mar 2025