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HANSARDBorder 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 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 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 (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 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)Weald of Kent.04 Mar 2025 Bills sponsored (1)