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HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)The Minister perhaps slightly mischaracterises new clause 21. It states that the Border Security Commander should “have regard to”, not manage, the wider aims of the Home Office…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Third sitting)The new clause clearly does not do that. The two points that the Minister just mentioned are part of a broader sentence that states that the Border Security Commander “must have…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)As hon. Members will have read, clause 13 creates a new offence of “Supplying articles for use in immigration crime”. The offence has two limbs. First, that the person supplies or…04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)Presumably, though, it seems reasonable to think that there could be a third category, which is people who charge fees that are not exorbitant.04 Mar 2025HANSARDBorder Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill (Fourth sitting)Clause 16, as the Minister has just set out, creates a new offence of collecting information for use in immigration crime. A person commits such an offence if a person: “collects…04 Mar 2025 Bills sponsored (1)